Impatient Optimists
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Lucia Cote

Title Program Coordinator, Family Health Division
Organization The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Lucia Cote is a Program Coordinator with the Family Health Division at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation, Lucia was Communications Manager and Executive Assistant to the Executive Director of Children’s House International, a nonprofit international adoption agency.

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Achieving Impact Together: Harmony in Thought, Speech, and Action

May 11, 2012 / Lucia Cote, Gary Darmstadt

In our work at the Gates Foundation, we are in constant contact with grantees and vendors. We all experience a great sense of urgency given the magnitude of our work, which often leaves little time to pause and reflect on the quality of our interactions with our partners, whom we rely upon for achievement of impact.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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