Impatient Optimists
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Kollin Min

Title Senior Program Officer
Organization Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Prior to joining the Foundation, Kollin Min served as the Seattle/Washington State Director for Enterprise Community Partners, a national affordable housing and community development intermediary. Kollin is an attorney with more than 10 years experience in the non-profit, governmental and private sectors. He currently serves on the board of the Seattle Housing Authority Board of Commissioners. Kollin is a graduate of Yale University, the University of Washington Law School, and the International Institute for Environmental Economics at Lund University (Sweden).

Posts By Kollin Min

 

The Music of Ending Homelessness

March 19, 2013 / Kollin Min

A program officer on our Pacific Northwest Family Homelessness team tells a story about making a difference, and how inspired he was by a random act of kindness.

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Schools Stabilize Families: Back to School for Homeless Children

September 05, 2012 / Catherine Hinrichsen, Kollin Min

Returning back to school after a long summer vacation is a time of excitement and anxiety for all children, but for the nearly 27,000 homeless students in Washington State, heading back to class can be an especially challenging experience. Yet, schools
have tremendous potential to stabilize the otherwise chaotic lives of many of these children.

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The Power of Pixels - Social Media & the Fight Against Homelessness

April 19, 2012 / Kollin Min, David Wertheimer

How Social Media can be a catalyst for change in the fight against homelessness - innovative new ideas carry it forward.

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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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