Forbes: A Billion People Need Vision Care. What A New Bloomberg Effort Will Do
September 28, 2025
The goal of the initiative is to improve vision care around the world. This will consist of providing more vision screenings, corrective lenses like eyeglasses and contact lenses and cataract surgeries as well as improving the data available to make proper vision-related decisions. Bloomberg called poor vision “an enormous obstacle to success in school and careers” and said that “in most cases, it can be easily fixed.”
Read moreNewsweek Op-Ed: The High Seas Treaty Just Passed. Now It’s Full Steam Ahead
September 26, 2025
By Patricia E. Harris and Juan Carlos Navarro
After 20 years of difficult negotiations, 73 countries including the European Union ratified a treaty to establish environmental protections on international waters, areas of the ocean that have been unregulated throughout history—a vast Wild West beyond the reach of national governments. This will finally give countries shared governance over the two-thirds of our ocean.
Read morePolitico: AI powers a new smart-city wave
July 31, 2025
Bloomberg Philanthropies announced it was adding 15 municipalities to its City Data Alliance, which launched in 2022 with a $60 million investment to provide tech support and training for local governments utilizing AI. Bloomberg Philanthropies connected DFD with mayors of four cities in this new cohort.
Read moreForbes: The Bloomberg Arts Internship Opens Up An Industry To Vital New Talent
June 18, 2025
With the rise of AI, the culture industry offers jobs that reward human skills and return quantifiable value back to the community.
The Bloomberg Arts Internship (BAI), a program of Bloomberg Philanthropies, supports this changing role of arts and culture. By awarding stipends to rising high school seniors and assisting the organizations who bring them in as interns, BAI helps young people better understand the cultural sector and develop qualities that will help them succeed in college and beyond.
Read moreForbes: WHO: Rates Of Drowning Deaths Have Dropped 38% Since 2000. Here’s How
March 6, 2025
The World Health Organization with support from Bloomberg Philanthropies published its first-ever report on drowning prevention that brought to the surface a major success story. As of last year, the rate of drowning deaths across the world has gone down by 38% since 2000.
Read moreAFP: Bloomberg to fund UN climate agency after US exit from Paris accord
January 23, 2025
Bloomberg’s intervention aims to ensure the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) remains fully funded despite the United States halting its contributions.
Read moreThe New York Times: An app for ‘The Gates,’ 20 years later
November 21, 2024
The installation’s orange curtains will float and flap from their orange portals, but this time only on cellphones using Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app from Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Read moreAxios: High schools help develop future health workers
September 3, 2024
Bloomberg Philanthropies wanted to increase opportunities for students who don’t necessarily want a four-year college degree while cultivating a talent pipeline for local hospitals, which are often the largest employers in town, said Howard Wolfson, education program lead.
Read moreAssociated Press: Bloomberg gives $600 million to four Black medical schools’ endowments
August 6, 2024
Bloomberg pointed to the closure in the last century of all but four historically Black medical schools, despite the well-documented impact that Black doctors have on improving health outcomes for Black patients.
Read moreThe Washington Post: $1 billion gift to make Johns Hopkins medical school free for most
July 8, 2024
The donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies will also expand financial aid for the school’s other graduate programs, including nursing and public health.
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