BRUSSELS — Like many people in European Union development circles, Nuria Molina used to apply for grants at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Now she helps decide who gets them.
Before taking up her Brussels-based position at the foundation as senior program officer for the EU and the Netherlands in 2016, Molina held senior roles at ActionAid, Save the Children, and the European Network on Debt and Development, or Eurodad — all of which receive funding from the Gates Foundation.
Her advice to those seeking money from the foundation? Do your homework, and be realistic. “It helps everybody to have a very candid conversation on expectations, because otherwise everybody wastes a lot of time on conversations that aren’t going anywhere,” she told Devex.