Editing Gates Foundation (section)

==Criticism==
===Education programs===

Some critics{{who|date=October 2023}} fear that the foundation directs the conversation on education or pushing its point of view through news coverage.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Strauss |first1=Valerie |title=Analysis : Um, who are Melinda and Bill Gates trying to kid? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/04/16/um-who-are-melinda-bill-gates-trying-kid/ |access-date=21 July 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=April 16, 2019 |archive-date=June 6, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606124257/https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/04/16/um-who-are-melinda-bill-gates-trying-kid/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The foundation has said it lists all its grants publicly and does not enforce any rules for content among its grantees, who have editorial independence.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref name="shape conversation"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Storytelling Matters: A Look at the Gates Foundation's Media Grantmaking |url=http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2012/02/Storytelling-Matters-A-Look-at-the-Gates-Foundations-Media-Grantmaking |publisher=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |access-date=December 21, 2014 |date=February 21, 2012 |archive-date=February 15, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215031101/http://www.impatientoptimists.org/Posts/2012/02/Storytelling-Matters-A-Look-at-the-Gates-Foundations-Media-Grantmaking |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Schwab|first=Tim|date=2020-08-21|title=Journalism's Gates keepers|url=https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php|access-date=2021-04-05|website=Columbia Journalism Review|language=en|archive-date=August 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821151348/https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php|url-status=live}}</ref> Union activists in Chicago have accused Gates Foundation grantee Teach Plus, which was founded by new teachers and advocates against seniority-based layoffs, of "[[astroturfing]]".<ref name="nytimes.com"/>

The K-12 and higher education reform programs of the Gates Foundation have been criticized by some education professionals, parents, and researchers who argue they have driven the conversation on education reform to such an extent that they may marginalize researchers who do not support Gates' predetermined policy preferences.<ref name="chronicle.com"/> Several Gates-backed policies such as small schools, charter schools, and increasing class sizes have been expensive and disruptive, but some studies indicate they have not improved educational outcomes and may have caused harm.<ref name="dissent">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/got-dough-how-billionaires-rule-our-schools|title=Got Dough? How Billionaires Rule Our Schools|access-date=January 23, 2021|archive-date=January 26, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126144320/https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/got-dough-how-billionaires-rule-our-schools|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/08/an-educator-challenges-the-gates-foundation/|author=Valerie Strauss|title=An educator challenges the Gates Foundation|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=August 24, 2017|archive-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125146/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/08/an-educator-challenges-the-gates-foundation/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Strauss |first1=Valerie |title=Bill Gates spent a fortune to build it. Now a Florida school system is getting rid of it. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/11/03/bill-gates-spent-a-fortune-to-build-it-now-a-florida-school-system-is-getting-rid-of-it/ |access-date=21 July 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=November 3, 2015 |archive-date=January 18, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118234455/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/11/03/bill-gates-spent-a-fortune-to-build-it-now-a-florida-school-system-is-getting-rid-of-it/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Strauss |first1=Valerie |title=Gates Foundation chief admits Common Core mistakes |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/06/02/gates-foundation-chief-admits-common-core-mistakes/ |access-date=21 July 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=June 2, 2016 |archive-date=January 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220130053039/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/06/02/gates-foundation-chief-admits-common-core-mistakes/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Examples of some of the K-12 reforms advocated by the foundation include closing ineffective neighborhood schools in favor of privately run [[Charter schools in the United States|charter schools]]; extensively using standardized test scores to evaluate the progress of students, teachers, and schools; and merit pay for teachers based on student test scores. Critics also believe that the Gates Foundation exerts too much influence over public education policy without being accountable to voters or taxpayers.<ref name="dissent"/><ref>{{cite book|author=Diane Ravitch|title=The Death and Life of the Great American School System|publisher=Basic Books|date=2010}}</ref><ref>Philip E. Kovacs. The Gates Foundation and the Future of U.S. "Public" Schools. Routledge, 2011.</ref>

===About the global health division===<!-- There is another section titled "Global health division" -->
A 2007 investigation by the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''<ref name="LA"/> claimed there are three major unintended consequences with the foundation's allocation of aid towards the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. First, sub-Saharan Africa already suffered from a shortage of primary doctors before the arrival of the Gates Foundation, but "by pouring most contributions into the fight against such high-profile killers as AIDS, Gates grantees have increased the demand for specially trained, higher-paid clinicians, diverting staff from basic care" in sub-Saharan Africa. This "brain drain" adds to the existing doctor shortage and pulls away additional trained staff from children and those suffering from other common killers. Second, "the focus on a few diseases has shortchanged basic needs such as nutrition and transportation".<ref name="LA" /> Third, "Gates-funded vaccination programs have instructed caregivers to ignore – even discourage patients from discussing – ailments that the vaccinations cannot prevent".<ref name="LA" />

In response, the Gates Foundation has said that African governments need to spend more of their budgets on public health than on wars, that the foundation has donated at least $70 million to help improve nutrition and [[agriculture]] in Africa, in addition to its disease-related initiatives and that it is studying ways to improve the delivery of health care in Africa.<ref name="LA"/>

Both insiders and external critics have suggested that there is too much deference to Bill Gates's personal views within the Gates Foundation, insufficient internal debate, and pervasive "group think".<ref name="ReferenceB"/><ref name="theguardian.com">{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/12/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation |title=Inside the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=July 12, 2010 |first=Andy |last=Beckett |access-date=December 11, 2016 |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726174513/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jul/12/bill-and-melinda-gates-foundation |url-status=live }}</ref> Critics also complain that Gates Foundation grants are often awarded based on social connections and ideological allegiances rather than based on formal external review processes or technical competence.<ref name="theguardian.com"/>

Critics{{WHO|date=January 2024}} have suggested that Gates' approach to Global Health and Agriculture favors the interests of large pharmaceutical and agribusiness companies over the interests of the people of developing countries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ghwatch.org/sites/www.ghwatch.org/files/d1.3.pdf |title=The Gates Foundation |website=Global Health Watch |access-date=January 22, 2019 |archive-date=January 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122133756/https://www.ghwatch.org/sites/www.ghwatch.org/files/d1.3.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://newint.org/features/2012/04/01/bill-gates-charitable-giving-ethics/ |title=The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions – New Internationalist |first=Andrew |last=Bowman |date=April 2012 |access-date=October 18, 2014 |archive-date=October 21, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021000541/http://newint.org/features/2012/04/01/bill-gates-charitable-giving-ethics/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/cbertini/Media/Kristi_Heim.pdf |title=Professor Catherine Bertini |access-date=December 17, 2016 |archive-date=October 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019014642/http://faculty.maxwell.syr.edu/cbertini/Media/Kristi_Heim.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.humanosphere.org/social-business/2014/10/critics-say-gates-foundations-agriculture-program-wont-help-poor-farmers/ |title=Critics say Gates Foundation's agriculture program won't help poor farmers |work=Humanosphere |date=October 13, 2014 |access-date=October 18, 2014 |archive-date=April 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160404153313/http://www.humanosphere.org/social-business/2014/10/critics-say-gates-foundations-agriculture-program-wont-help-poor-farmers/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> After the Gates foundation urged the [[University of Oxford]] to find a large company partner to get [[Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine|its COVID-19 vaccine]] to market, the university backed off from its earlier pledge to donate the rights to any drugmaker.<ref>{{cite web |title=They Pledged to Donate Rights to Their COVID Vaccine, Then Sold Them to Pharma |url=https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/ |website=Kaiser Health News |date=August 25, 2020 |access-date=January 28, 2021 |archive-date=February 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207230036/https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine-oxford-makes-a-deal-with-drugmaker/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Critics have outlined that the "Global Health Governance" approach as its conducted by the BMGF can best be understood as "Global Health [[Imperialism]]" breaking with the "traditional notions of [[Westphalian sovereignty]]" by enforcing capitalist policies on all countries.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Levich|first=Jacob|date=2015|title=The Gates Foundation, Ebola, and Global Health Imperialism|journal=The American Journal of Economics and Sociology|volume=74|issue=4|pages=704–742|doi=10.1111/ajes.12110|jstor=43817537 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Also the broader concept of "[[philanthrocapitalism]]" is criticised as not addressing the real issue of systemic inequality of capitalism. Instead of real social change organisations such as BMGF represent the interests of "highly sophisticated capitalists who know what they want and how best to get it" – the "Global Health Imperialism" agenda is devoted "to expanding worldwide markets and facilitating commerce on behalf of Western capitalism".<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.4324/9781315297255-20 |chapter=Disrupting global health |title=Routledge Handbook on the Politics of Global Health |date=2018 |last1=Levich |first1=Jacob |pages=207–218 |isbn=978-1-315-29725-5 }}</ref>

Some experts have pointed that, while it is true that the foundation exercises inordinate power on the WHO, that is possible because the WHO is chronically underfunded and has prestige problems.
Some rich countries have narrower views on global health and engage in [[vaccine nationalism]]. 
The foundation is criticized for not battling monopolies on intellectual property, crowding out different views on policy and favoring [[solutionism]].
Its focus on concrete illnesses leads away of system changes.<ref name="Ferrer">{{cite news |last1=Ferrer |first1=Sergio |title=Filantropía, salud y poder económico: ¿El problema es la Fundación Gates o va mucho más allá? |url=https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/filantropia-salud-economico-problema-fundacion-gates_1_10878671.html |access-date=31 January 2024 |work=elDiario.es |date=30 January 2024 |language=es-ES |archive-date=January 31, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240131100308/https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/filantropia-salud-economico-problema-fundacion-gates_1_10878671.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===AGRA===
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the founders and primary financiers of the [[Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa]] (AGRA), an African-led organization focused on "transforming African agriculture"<ref>{{cite web |title=Alliance for a Green Revolution |url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/98-0513530 |website=Guidestar.org |access-date=13 May 2021 |archive-date=May 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513223051/https://www.guidestar.org/profile/98-0513530 |url-status=live }}</ref> to improve food security in Africa and reduce poverty among small farmers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Strategy – AGRA |url=https://agra.org/our-strategy/ |website=AGRA.org |access-date=13 May 2021 |archive-date=May 7, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507165531/https://agra.org/our-strategy/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Some critics allege that by encouraging the use of mass-produced fertilizers and new seed varieties, AGRA's hidden goal is not to lift small farmers out of poverty, but to control them through dependence on profit-oriented international supply chains.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.welt-ernaehrung.de/2013/08/19/bill-gates-in-afrika/|title=Bill Gates in Afrika » Welt-Ernährung|website=www.welt-ernaehrung.de|date=August 19, 2013 |access-date=July 3, 2020|archive-date=July 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726224548/https://www.welt-ernaehrung.de/2013/08/19/bill-gates-in-afrika/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Modi Goalkeepers Award===
On September 24, 2019, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave its [[Goalkeepers (Gates Foundation)|Goalkeepers]] Global Goals award to Indian prime minister [[Narendra Modi]]. The decision to award Modi was widely criticized by academics, Nobel Prize laureates, and human rights activists from all over the world.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/23/dismay-at-gates-foundation-prize-for-narendra-modi |title=Dismay at Gates Foundation prize for Narendra Modi &#124; Letters |newspaper=The Guardian |date=September 23, 2019 |via=www.theguardian.com |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-date=October 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20191021114703/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/23/dismay-at-gates-foundation-prize-for-narendra-modi |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/commentisfree/2019/sep/24/narendra-modi-gates-foundation-award-donald-trump |title=The Gates Foundation shouldn't legitimise Narendra Modi |first1=Gloria |last1=Steinem |first2=Akeel |last2=Bilgrami |date=September 24, 2019 |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-date=July 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240726174947/https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/commentisfree/2019/sep/24/narendra-modi-gates-foundation-award-donald-trump |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49738605 |title='Toilet trouble' for Narendra Modi and Bill Gates |first=Aparna |last=Alluri |work=BBC News |date=September 23, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-date=January 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200129161826/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49738605 |url-status=live }}</ref> A petition signed by over 100,000 people also demanded that the Gates Foundation rescind the award.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.stopgenocide.org/ |title=Don't reward fascism. The Butcher of Gujarat, Modi, doesn't deserve an award from the Bill Gates Foundation |website=Stop Genocide |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926194433/https://www.stopgenocide.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Critics insisted that Modi, a Hindu nationalist prime minister with allegations of human rights abuse, should not be celebrated by an organization whose mission states that 'every life has equal value and all people deserve healthy lives.'<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/opinion/modi-gates-award.html |title=Opinion &#124; Why I Resigned From the Gates Foundation |first=Sabah |last=Hamid |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 26, 2019 |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926194432/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/opinion/modi-gates-award.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By giving Modi this prestigious award, they noted, the Gates Foundation contributes in legitimizing the rule of Modi.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://whro.org/news/3678-gates-foundation-s-humanitarian-award-to-india-s-modi-is-sparking-outrage |title=WHRO – Gates Foundation's Humanitarian Award To India's Modi Is Sparking Outrage |website=whro.org |access-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-date=September 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190926194433/https://whro.org/news/3678-gates-foundation-s-humanitarian-award-to-india-s-modi-is-sparking-outrage |url-status=live |last1=Gharib |first1=Malaka }}</ref>

===Poverty and education policy===
Critics say the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has overlooked the links between poverty and poor academic achievement and has unfairly demonized teachers for poor achievement by underprivileged students. They contend that the Gates Foundation should be embracing anti-poverty and living wage policies rather than pursuing untested and empirically unsupported education reforms.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/21/how-bill-gates-and-fellow-billionaires-can-actually-help-public-education/|author=Valerie Strauss|title=How Bill Gates and fellow billionaires can actually help public education|date=April 21, 2014|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=August 24, 2017|archive-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904125146/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/04/21/how-bill-gates-and-fellow-billionaires-can-actually-help-public-education/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Critics say that Gates-backed reforms such as increasing the use of technology in education may financially benefit Microsoft and the Gates family.<ref name="chronicle.com"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Walsh |first1=Mark |title=The Washington Post's 'Tense' Talk With Bill Gates on Common Core |url=https://www.edweek.org/education/the-washington-posts-tense-talk-with-bill-gates-on-common-core/2014/06 |work=Education Week |date=9 June 2014 }} citing: {{cite news |id={{ProQuest|1534666399}} |last1=Layton |first1=Lyndsey |title=How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-bill-gates-pulled-off-the-swift-common-core-revolution/2014/06/07/a830e32e-ec34-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html |work=The Washington Post |date=7 June 2014 }}</ref>

===Calls for divestment===
{{See also|Financial endowment#Divestment campaigns and impact investing}}
The foundation trust invests undistributed assets, with the exclusive goal of maximizing the [[return on investment]]. As a result, its investments include companies that have been criticized for worsening poverty in the same developing countries where the foundation is attempting to relieve poverty.<ref name=":6" /><ref>[http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/9/report_gates_foundation_causing_harm_with Report: Gates Foundation Causing Harm With the Same Money It Uses To Do Good] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111107062747/http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/9/report_gates_foundation_causing_harm_with |date=November 7, 2011 }}, Democracy Now!, January 9, 2007</ref> These include companies that pollute heavily and pharmaceutical companies that do not sell into the developing world.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation |url=https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 7, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070108140548/https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gatesx07jan07,0,6827615.story |archive-date=January 8, 2007}}</ref>
In response to press criticism, in 2007 the foundation announced a review of its investments to assess social responsibility.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003517601_gatesinvest10.html|title=Gates Foundation to review investments|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516015458/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003517601_gatesinvest10.html |archive-date=May 16, 2007|work=The Seattle Times|date=January 10, 2007}}</ref> It subsequently canceled the review and stood by its policy of investing for maximum return, while using voting rights to influence company practices.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gates Foundation to maintain its investment plan|work=The Austin Statesman|date=January 14, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-gates-foundations-investments-are-undermining-its-own-good-works/|title=How the Gates Foundation's Investments Are Undermining Its Own Good Works|first=Charles|last=Piller|date=August 22, 2014|magazine=The Nation |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230602043909/https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-gates-foundations-investments-are-undermining-its-own-good-works/ |archive-date= Jun 2, 2023 }}</ref>

Critics have called on the Gates Foundation to [[Financial endowment#Divestment campaigns and impact investing|divest]] from the [[GEO Group]], the second-largest private prison corporation in the United States. A large part of the prison's work involves incarcerating and detaining migrants that have been detained by the [[Presidency of Barack Obama|Obama administration]] and the [[First presidency of Donald Trump|Trump administration]].<ref name="prisonlegalnews.org">{{cite news|author=Joe Watson|title=Demonstrators Protest Gates Foundation's $2.2 Million Investment in GEO Group|work=Prison Legal News|date=July 6, 2016|url=https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2016/jul/6/demonstrators-protest-gates-foundations-22-million-investment-geo-group/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230408183842/https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2016/jul/6/demonstrators-protest-gates-foundations-22-million-investment-geo-group/ |archive-date= Apr 8, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Geren |first=Tony |date=August 28, 2015 |title=Revealed: Bill Gates invests billions in fast food, private prison and oil companies |url=http://www.iamawake.co/revealed-bill-gates-invests-billions-in-fast-food-private-prison-and-oil-companies/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703002429/https://www.iamawake.co/revealed-bill-gates-invests-billions-in-fast-food-private-prison-and-oil-companies/ |archive-date=Jul 3, 2022 |website=I Am Awake}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Madison Pauly|title=A Brief History of America's Private Prison Industry|website=Mother Jones|date=July–August 2016|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/history-of-americas-private-prison-industry-timeline/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627080318/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/history-of-americas-private-prison-industry-timeline/ |archive-date= Jun 27, 2023 }}</ref> In spring 2014, the Gates Foundation acknowledged its $2.2 million investment in the prison corporation.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lael Henterly|title=Gates Foundation resists pressure to pull private prison investment|work=The Seattle Globalist|date=May 8, 2014|url=http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2014/05/08/gates-foundation-private-prison-investments-geo-nwdc/24430 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419013952/https://seattleglobalist.com/2014/05/08/gates-foundation-private-prison-investments-geo-nwdc/24430 |archive-date= Apr 19, 2023 }}</ref> It rebuffed critics' request that it sever investment ties with the prison corporation. It has refused to comment on whether it is continuing its investments, as of 2016.<ref name="prisonlegalnews.org"/><ref>{{cite web|author=Alex Park|title=Is the Gates Foundation Still Investing in Private Prisons?|website=Mother Jones|date=December 8, 2014|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/gates-foundation-still-investing-private-prisons/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230617065424/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/gates-foundation-still-investing-private-prisons/ |archive-date= Jun 17, 2023 }}</ref>