Boston Globe: Harvard launches Bloomberg Center for Cities to train municipal leaders
April 18, 2023
Harvard University launched the Bloomberg Center for Cities, a unit housed within the Kennedy School designed to train municipal leaders everywhere from Boston to Bristol, England. The center will link city officials across the globe with executive education and multidisciplinary research from Harvard faculty and create opportunities for graduate students contemplating careers in public service.
Read moreThe New York Times: The Lifesaving Power of … Paperwork?
March 29, 2023
Colombia Rural Vital [is] one of several initiatives begun by the nonprofits Vital Strategies and Bloomberg Philanthropies as part of a broader effort to improve birth-and-death registries around the world. By the organizations’ estimate, some two billion people do not have birth certificates, and only half of the 60 million or so deaths that occur each year are recorded in any meaningful way.
Read moreEl Pais: Five inspiring cities and their exemplary efforts to deal with the silent urban killers
March 18, 2023
Most measures to reduce consumption – the most effective being price hikes – are the responsibility of national governments, explains Kelly Henning, head of the Public Health program at Bloomberg Philanthropy. “But local authorities can implement very interesting interventions such as banning smoking in certain areas or advertising tobacco on city billboards,” she says.
Read moreTime Out New York: A beautiful new theater is opening at the World Trade Center later this year
February 28, 2023
Downtown New York is in dire need of a proper performance space and the neighborhood is finally getting one in the form of the Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC), which is set to open by the World Trade Center this upcoming September. The cultural institution has been a long time coming, with talks regarding it kicking off when Michael Bloomberg, now a chairman on the project, first became mayor nearly two decades ago. Considering the scope of the new eight-story building, the timeline certainly makes sense.
Read morePolitico Pro: Bloomberg Philanthropies commits $5.2M for high school peer advisory program
February 1, 2023
Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropic organization pledged $5.2 million to help develop the Department of Education and the City University of New York’s college and career peer advisory program for New York City public high school students.
Read moreRoute Fifty: A ‘Bootcamp’ to Help Smaller Cities Win Infrastructure Grants
January 8, 2023
The bootcamps are free to cities, with Bloomberg Philanthropies and a number of other foundations and philanthropic organizations providing financial support for the initiative.
Read moreCrain’s New York Business: How arts organizations got the app they needed—for free
December 20, 2022
Bloomberg Philanthropies launched an app, Bloomberg Connects, before the 2020 pandemic closures. By the time the Frick was working on the details of its Madison Avenue opening, Bloomberg Philanthropies was looking for more museum partners to give the app a try. The Frick got on the app, allowing it to create 150 audio guides, in-house. Creating previous audio guides required the help of an outside recording partner. A year and a half later, nearly a third of Frick visitors use the app. So do users at more than 100 cultural organizations around the world, including 25 in New York. This month the Metropolitan Museum of Art became among the latest to participate.
Read moreNew York Daily News: More than 1,000 NYC first graders’ college savings accounts set to grow by total of $1 million
December 13, 2022
Roughly 1,200 first graders from a Brooklyn school district with the city’s highest proportion of Black students are seeing $1,000 added to their new college savings accounts, the result of donations from Bloomberg Philanthropies and a local foundation.
Read moreThe New York Times: Michael Bloomberg announces a new initiative to phase out coal in 25 countries
November 7, 2022
Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and now a special envoy on climate change for the United Nations, announced a new international plan on Monday to help 25 countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America phase out coal by 2040. The announcement from Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire philanthropist who has given more than $500 million to help end coal use in the United States, did not include a new financial pledge.
Read moreThe Guardian: Cities around the world offered chance to win $1m to build cycle lanes
October 10, 2022
Cities around the world will have the chance to compete for $1m (£902,000) in funding as well as expertise to build new cycling infrastructure under a plan launched by the charitable foundation set up by Mike Bloomberg, who as New York mayor pioneered new bike lanes in the city. Under the scheme, launched on Monday by Bloomberg Philanthropies, 10 cities will be awarded up to $1m each to create safe cycling routes, and will also be given help designing the schemes and on engaging with residents and potential opposition.
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