Each year, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awards around $4 billion in grants to protect the vulnerable from disease, educate young students, and empower women around the globe. It has also funneled upwards of $60 million a year to experts who tell the world’s biggest private grant maker how to do it all better.
But last year, in an effort to more firmly steer its own course, the foundation slashed its budget for those consultants by 50 percent.
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