Tag: Bloomberg Philanthropies

Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches First-of-Its-Kind Innovative Healthcare-Focused High Schools in 10 Urban and Rural Communities Across the Country

Stuart Mitchell

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $250 million initiative to create new high schools around the nation that will graduate students directly into high-demand healthcare jobs with family-sustaining wages. This first-of-its kind initiative pairs public education systems and hospitals in 10 communities including the urban locations Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; Durham, NC; Houston, TX; Nashville, TN; New York, NY; and Philadelphia, PA; and the rural areas Demopolis, AL and Northeast TN (six locations). The schools will collectively serve nearly 6,000 students at full capacity. Each school, whether newly established…

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Opens Applications to Expanded Digital Accelerator Program

Stuart Mitchell

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced that non-profit cultural organizations in the U.S. and U.K. can apply to join the expanded Digital Accelerator Program. This initiative helps cultural organizations strengthen technology and management practices to improve operations, generate revenue, fundraise, engage broader audiences, and expand programming. Nonprofit cultural organizations with annual budgets of $500,000 (U.K.: £500,000) or more that have been in operation for at least three years can apply here before March 13, 2024. Up to 50 organizations will be accepted for this next round of the program. “We launched the…

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IRENA and Bloomberg Philanthropies Announce COP28 Partnership to Help Accelerate the Global Energy Transition

Stuart Mitchell

Bloomberg Philanthropies and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) announced a new COP28 partnership to turbocharge clean energy deployment and capital mobilization in emerging markets and developing economies. The official announcement took place in the presence of His Excellency Dr. Sultan Al Jaber, President-Designate of COP28, Francesco La Camera, Director-General of IRENA, and Michael R. Bloomberg, UN Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions and founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Ahead of COP28 and the milestone Global Stocktake – assessing national contributions and progress against the goals of…

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Mayors Challenge Winning Project to Combat Climate Change Will Spread to Seven Global Cities

Stuart Mitchell

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced that seven cities from Europe and the United States will receive support to adopt Stockholm’s 2014 Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge Winning Biochar Project, which turns plant waste from parks and homes – everything from grass clippings to trees and limbs – into a charcoal-like substance that residents can then use in their yards and gardens to help combat climate change. When biochar is used as a soil fertilizer it promotes plant growth while simultaneously absorbing carbon from the atmosphere and locking it into the soil as…

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Joins $1B USD Pledge to Protect 30 Percent of the Ocean by 2030

Stuart Mitchell

At the 2022 UN Ocean Conference, Bloomberg Philanthropies and eight philanthropic partners committed a collective $1 billion USD to support ocean conservation and the creation, expansion, and management of marine protected areas. This single commitment is roughly equal to all philanthropic giving for marine protected areas and habitat protection over the past decade and will help put ambitious ocean conservation goals within reach by supporting initiatives that help governments, and indigenous and local communities protect at least 30 percent of the ocean by 2030. This pledge builds on Bloomberg’s decade-long…

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