Wired: Kyiv Is Using Homegrown Tech to Treat the Trauma of War
February 16, 2024
As the war enters its third year, the municipal government is starting to build a citywide system for providing mental health support to citizens. It’s a vast challenge, but also a unique opportunity—the first time that such a mass-trauma event has happened to a society that has already built the tools of digital government. … The project is being supported financially and operationally by Bloomberg Philanthropies, a charitable organization created by former New York mayor and Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg.
Read moreInside Philanthropy: Improving Nonprofit Tech Can Be Tricky. Here’s How One Funder Is Getting it Right
February 7, 2024
Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Digital Accelerator Program offers a solid opportunity for arts organizations in the U.S. and U.K. to receive critical support with their technology infrastructure. Beyond that, though, the program is a good illustration of the benefits of funding nonprofit IT, how to do this kind of funding right, and the challenges inherent to navigating technology for nonprofits generally, and arts organizations in particular.
Read moreNature Cities: Urban philanthropy and innovation with James Anderson
February 1, 2024
James Anderson, Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Government Innovation Lead, discusses the role of philanthropy in addressing urban research and problems.
Read moreThe Washington Post: Opinion: Want safer streets? Paint them.
January 29, 2024
To provide a road map for the increasing municipal interest, in 2019 Bloomberg Philanthropies produced the Asphalt Art Guide and launched the Asphalt Art Initiative (AAI), distributing grants to 90 projects in cities across the United States and around the world to produce and assess their own eye-catching street design projects.
Read moreThe New York Times: Hospitals Are Desperate for Workers. They Might Find Them in High Schools.
January 17, 2024
Boston is one of 10 places where Bloomberg Philanthropies will spend a total of $250 million preparing high school students to start health care jobs as soon as they graduate.
Read moreEconomist Impact: There is still time for coral reefs, if we act soon
December 19, 2023
For over five years, Bloomberg Philanthropies and WCS have been working together to tackle this issue and restore hope for our reefs; first finding climate refuges, and then working hand in hand with local communities and national governments to protect them. We need to scale up this work, and quickly, in a new global network of partners for coral.
Read moreAmerican City and County: Report: Mayors are interested in generative AI, but adoption rates remain low
November 21, 2023
New research from Bloomberg Philanthropies in partnership with the Centre for Public Impact quantifies the scope of interest in AI among public administrators.
Read moreNewsweek: Small Towns, Big Dreams—Lessons in Implementing Washington’s Infrastructure Vision | Opinion
November 21, 2023
By Bloomberg Philanthropies’ James Anderson and National League of Cities’ Clarence E. Anthony: We formed the Local Infrastructure Hub, a civil-society consortium that is coaching 1,200 plus mostly small and mid-sized municipalities in the art and science of drawing down federal dollars. These efforts include webinars with infrastructure leaders, strategy-sharing from big cities, and months-long grant-writing bootcamps that train officials needing help most: those with 150,000 or fewer residents. The program is working. More than 3,200 local officials, including 276 mayors, have engaged in technical support sessions. Participating municipalities have already received over $700 million in funding. Of the nearly 700 localities getting support through the bootcamps, 77 percent have fewer than 50,000 residents, and 42 percent have fewer than 10,000.
Read moreCNBC: From town hall prep to disaster predictions: Mayors descend on Washington to learn how they can use generative AI in their cities
October 20, 2023
The roughly four-hour Mayors Innovation Studio, hosted by Bloomberg Philanthropies’ CityLab on Wednesday, is an example of how generative AI tools are making their way into many aspects of life and every level of government. While only 2% of cities surveyed by Bloomberg Philanthropies said they’re actively implementing the technology, 69% said they were actively exploring or testing it and 96% of surveyed mayors said they were interested in using it.
Read moreThe Baltimore Banner: Johns Hopkins opens a gleaming new center in DC’s former Newseum
October 19, 2023
Having a satellite location in D.C., or for that matter any major world city, is not new for Hopkins, nor is it new for many colleges, but the opening of the Hopkins Bloomberg Center ups that ante, a trophy like few others in academia. Although the building has classrooms and a library, very little of the inside suggests school. Its architecture more resembles spaces used for art, performance, offices and even hotel lobbies.
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