SAN FRANCISCO — Victoria Vrana, deputy director of the philanthropic partnerships team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, last visited headquarters on March 4.
That was the day the office closed, as COVID-19 spread in Seattle, Washington — and globally.
The Gates foundation has directed most of its resources to the pandemic, and since Vrana returned to her base in Washington, D.C., she has been working with the philanthropic partnerships team to respond to the crisis.