Gates Foundation’s Size Makes Oversight Tricky

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is in need of constructive criticism and feedback, which can be hard to come by as the foundation doles out significant sums of money to those who might be best equipped to criticize the organization, reports The Seattle Times.

And while many online commentators critique Bill Gates’s Microsoft Corporation, just one commentator is a watchdog over the foundation — the Gates Keepers. Even that column’s moderators are anonymous, the Times reports.

The foundation’s outgoing chief executive, Patty Stonesifer, says the grant maker seeks out honest reviews of its work, especially thoughts for how it could be improved.

“We don’t need to agree with all of it,” she says. “We have to hear it.”