The Wall Street Journal: Lincoln Center Aims to Attract New Audiences With Technology
May 5, 2016
A new mobile app guides visitors on an audiovisual tour of the complex. A second app includes features that allow ticket holders at David Geffen Hall and Alice Tully Hall to check the length of bathroom lines or preorder intermission drinks.
“It unites all the constituents at a very basic transactional level,” said Kate Levin, head of the arts program at Bloomberg Philanthropies, a lead funder of the project, along with the Kovner Foundation.
Read moreThe New York Times: Antismoking Coalition Gives Big Tobacco a Fight in Indonesia
April 30, 2016
Many of the lobbying efforts that led to local regulations, including in Jakarta, were substantially financed by the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, the $600 million fund founded by Michael R. Bloomberg, the former New York mayor.
The Bloomberg Initiative has designated Indonesia one of its five priority countries, and has donated more than $10 million since 2007. The initiative is largely focused on establishing local and regional tobacco control laws in a nation with a highly decentralized government structure.
Read moreThe New York Times: Who’s in Charge at the Brooklyn Museum? It Could Be You
April 30, 2016
The project is supported by funding from Bloomberg Connects, which has pledged more than $80 million to 15 cultural institutions to improve the visitor experience through technology. Among the other grantees are the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art and the Tate Modern in London.
Read moreThe Washington Post: Bloomberg, others give Hopkins $125 million for cancer research that helped Jimmy Carter
March 29, 2016
Research into immunotherapy, which cancer experts are calling the most promising approach in decades, got a boost Tuesday when Michael Bloomberg and other philanthropists announced $125 million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new institute focused solely on the therapy and accelerated breakthroughs for patients.
Read moreThe Huffington Post: On Climate Change, COP21 and Public Art, by Patricia E. Harris
December 9, 2015
World leaders, environment experts and delegates from around the globe are convening in Paris for COP21, the U.N.’s climate summit. Meanwhile, in the center of the city at Place du Panthéon, the public has the chance to encounter Ice Watch, a work by acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson and scientist Minik Rosing, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Ice Watch consists of 80 tons of free-floating blocks of ice from Greenland, arranged in a clock formation. Remaining in the public square the ice melts, visually representing the climate change taking place on our planet. In a release about the art work, Eliasson said, “Art has the ability to change our perceptions and perspectives on the world, and Ice Watch makes the climate challenges we are facing tangible.”
Read moreThe Huffington Post: Ensuring Sustainability for Philanthropic Investments With Data, by Verna Eggleston
November 10, 2015
Since 2008, Bloomberg Philanthropies has been working to increase women’s economic opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa. With partners such as Women for Women International (WfWI), for example, women in Rwanda and Congo are taught organic farming techniques geared toward commercial production; and food processing, textiles and artisan crafts to bring to local and international markets. As a result, these women — all of whom have survived the hardships due to conflicts and war — are learning life-changing education and technical skills to move from being survivors to active citizens.
Read moreForbes: Death Toll On World’s Roads Is Too High, WHO Finds
October 20, 2015
The report was funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, which since 2007 has committed more than $250 million to help low- and middle- income countries adopt effective road safety measures.
“Thanks to stronger laws and smarter infrastructure, nearly half a billion people in the world are better protected from road crashes than were just a few years ago – and we have the opportunity to do much more, especially when it comes to enforcing laws,” Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies and three-term former Mayor of New York, said in a statement.
Read moreTIME: Mexicans Begin to Slim With the Help of the Soda Tax
October 12, 2015
As the tax completes its second year, activists and big soda are now arguing over how much effect it has on the health and habits of Mexicans. A study funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, and involving top academics from Mexico and the United States, finds there was a dip of 6% in the purchase of taxed sweetened beverages in 2014. This dip increased over the year, leading to 12 percent by December.
Read moreThe Washington Post: Why the United Nations should press for higher taxes on tobacco, by Michael R. Bloomberg and Margaret Chen
October 2, 2015
For the first time, the global sustainable-development goals being negotiated at the United Nations treat tobacco use — and the chronic diseases it causes — as a development issue. It’s long overdue.
Read moreThe Chronicle of Philanthropy: Bloomberg Helps Launch Website to Improve Coordination in Africa
September 17, 2015
A new website developed by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the King Baudouin Foundation, and the Foundation Center allows nonprofits and donors to track philanthropy’s impact in Central Africa.
The site, called Equal Footing, uses maps that show where grants to support women, their families, and their local communities have been made in Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda. It includes profiles of more than 1,000 foundations and nonprofits active in the area and includes reports on how various economic-development projects have fared.
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