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Annual Report 2022-2023Global Reach, Local Impact. Bloomberg Philanthropies invests in 700 cities and 150 countries around the world to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people. We focus on five key areas for creating lasting change: the Arts, Education, Environment, Government Innovation, and Public Health, in addition to special Founder’s Projects....
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Annual Report 2021: Public HealthAnnual Report / Public Health Annual Report 2021: Public Health The Public Health program takes on noncommunicable diseases and injuries to reduce preventable deaths from tobacco use, unhealthy diets, road traffic crashes, and other leading causes. Bloomberg Philanthropies follows the data and builds strong partnerships with national and local gove...
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BloombergNEF Announces its First Net Zero Summit in Bali Ahead of B20 and G20 SummitsThe net zero-themed BloombergNEF Summit Bali will bring together 300 global and Indonesian business leaders and investors to explore growth opportunities in the transition to a net zero future, the country’s decarbonization efforts in light of its G20 leadership to champion the energy transition and sustainable financing mechanisms.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits Additional $25 Million To Career and Technical Education Programs to Better Prepare U.S. High School Students for Workforce Amidst Upheavals Caused By COVID-19 PandemicBloomberg Philanthropies today announced an increased commitment to preparing young people for well-paying jobs and helping them recover from the financial and educational disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic with $25 million of additional support for career and technical education programs in nine U.S. cities and across two states.
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Countdown to COP26Days Until COP: 0 Actions Taken: 85 UPDATE: Mike Bloomberg, UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions and founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, participated in COP26 in Glasgow, capping off a 60-day, Bloomberg-wide effort to turbocharge climate progress in support of the UN’s climate agenda. Climate change is intensifying,...
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Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Powering Past Coal Alliance Launch the “Bloomberg Global Coal Countdown”On the first day of the 2021 Powering Past Coal Alliance Global Summit, Michael R. Bloomberg, the U.N. Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Climate Ambition and Solutions and Founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, launched the Bloomberg Global Coal Countdown – a new online data resource that tracks the retirement of coal plant units...
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Bloomberg Philanthropies COVID-19 Global Response Initiative Supports 31 African Countries to Expand Their Pandemic Containment and Provides Training for Nearly 6,000 Health Care WorkersIn the three months since Bloomberg Philanthropies launched its $40 million COVID-19 Global Response Initiative, with partner Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative of Vital Strategies, 31 countries in Africa have been able to deepen and expand their public health efforts to minimize the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bloomberg Philanthropies...
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Eradicating PolioThanks to persistent public health efforts, recent years have seen significant progress against polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that can lead to paralysis and death. Cases have been reduced by more than 99% since 1988, with wild polio seen in just two countries today — Pakistan and Afghanistan — and is confined to small areas within them. Thes...
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Data for HealthToday, approximately half of all deaths in the world go unrecorded, and health policy decisions are often based on inadequate information. Data for Health, co-funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Australian government, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, helps low- and middle-income countries collect better public health data. That w...
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Strengthening Health DataToday, approximately half of all deaths in the world go unrecorded; accordingly, health policy decisions are often based on inadequate information. Data for Health, co-funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Australian government, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, partners with low- and middle-income countries to improve public health da...