The Guardian: Halve traffic accident deaths and injuries by 2020: can it be done?
August 2, 2016
In Vietnam, for example, helmet-wearing increased from 40% to 95% within days of the government passing a requirement for motorcycle users to wear one, says Kelly Henning, director of public health programmes at Bloomberg Philanthropies. The organisation has committed $259m (£200m) to improve road safety.
Read moreThe Chronicle of Philanthropy: 3 Important Steps Philanthropies Are Taking to Curb Climate Change, by Antha Williams
July 24, 2016
Launched by the Sierra Club in 2002 and supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies and a host of other grant makers, Beyond Coal brings together local activists to fight pollution from coal-fired power plants in their communities. The campaign aims to close America’s dirtiest coal plants and replace them with cleaner energy through a blend of grass-roots organizing and carefully aimed lawsuits.
Read moreWNYC: The Brooklyn Museum Wants You to Put Its Staff in Your Pocket
June 29, 2016
A team of art educators sit around a cluster of computers near the museum entrance, ready to answer questions from visitors as soon as they comes through the app. But it’s teaching the museum staff something as well: They’re learning how visitors interact with the collection, and as a result, are providing more information in some places or making changes to displays in other locations. It’s one of 15 art-meets-tech projects funded by Bloomberg Connects, a part of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which aim to better connect visitors with cultural institutions.
Read moreThe New York Times: Giving Like Michael Bloomberg: ‘Find One Small Thing’
May 20, 2016
Mr. Bloomberg, 74, has adopted a strategy of giving to organizations that seek to bring about change on a local level but serve a broader purpose. He reserves a separate fund for projects that are close to his heart, like the more than $1 billion he has given to his alma mater, Johns Hopkins.
Read moreThe Wall Street Journal: Lincoln Center Aims to Attract New Audiences With Technology
May 5, 2016
A new mobile app guides visitors on an audiovisual tour of the complex. A second app includes features that allow ticket holders at David Geffen Hall and Alice Tully Hall to check the length of bathroom lines or preorder intermission drinks.
“It unites all the constituents at a very basic transactional level,” said Kate Levin, head of the arts program at Bloomberg Philanthropies, a lead funder of the project, along with the Kovner Foundation.
Read moreThe New York Times: Antismoking Coalition Gives Big Tobacco a Fight in Indonesia
April 30, 2016
Many of the lobbying efforts that led to local regulations, including in Jakarta, were substantially financed by the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the $600 million fund founded by Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York mayor.
The Bloomberg Initiative has designated Indonesia one of its five priority countries, and has donated more than $10 million since 2007. The initiative is largely focused on establishing local and regional tobacco control laws in a nation with a highly decentralized government structure.
Read moreThe New York Times: Who’s in Charge at the Brooklyn Museum? It Could Be You
April 30, 2016
The project is supported by funding from Bloomberg Connects, which has pledged more than $80 million to 15 cultural institutions to improve the visitor experience through technology. Among the other grantees are the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Modern in London.
Read moreThe Washington Post: Bloomberg, others give Hopkins $125 million for cancer research that helped Jimmy Carter
March 29, 2016
Research into immunotherapy, which cancer experts are calling the most promising approach in decades, got a boost Tuesday when Michael Bloomberg and other philanthropists announced $125 million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new institute focused solely on the therapy and accelerated breakthroughs for patients.
Read moreThe Huffington Post: On Climate Change, COP21 and Public Art, by Patricia E. Harris
December 9, 2015
World leaders, environment experts and delegates from around the globe are convening in Paris for COP21, the U.N.’s climate summit. Meanwhile, in the center of the city at Place du Panthéon, the public has the chance to encounter Ice Watch, a work by acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson and scientist Minik Rosing, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Ice Watch consists of 80 tons of free-floating blocks of ice from Greenland, arranged in a clock formation. Remaining in the public square the ice melts, visually representing the climate change taking place on our planet. In a release about the art work, Eliasson said, “Art has the ability to change our perceptions and perspectives on the world, and Ice Watch makes the climate challenges we are facing tangible.”
Read moreThe Huffington Post: Ensuring Sustainability for Philanthropic Investments With Data, by Verna Eggleston
November 10, 2015
Since 2008, Bloomberg Philanthropies has been working to increase women’s economic opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa. With partners such as Women for Women International (WfWI), for example, women in Rwanda and Congo are taught organic farming techniques geared toward commercial production; and food processing, textiles and artisan crafts to bring to local and international markets. As a result, these women — all of whom have survived the hardships due to conflicts and war — are learning life-changing education and technical skills to move from being survivors to active citizens.
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