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The Topline
Key data points
By 2030, 100% of the baby boom generation will be over 65 years old, creating
new demands on our already strained healthcare systems. In an op-ed,Mike writes
about how we can help fill healthcare staffing gaps, and create job
opportunities for skilled high school graduates
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Bloomberg Philanthropies invests in 700 cities around the world to help them
tackle big challenges and share creative solutions. At the recent Urban Tech
Summit, James Anderson, who leads our Government Innovation program, hada
wide-ranging conversation about helping mayors solve problems with data,
innovation, and collaboration
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Our Digital Accelerator Program
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has helped cultural organizations generate more than $20 million in new
revenue and reach a million new audience members. We'reexpanding the initiative
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to help more organizations strengthen their technology and management
practices.
In less than one minute, you can learn about the impacts of petrochemicals,
the surprising places you might find them, and why we need to move beyond them
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Follow the Data: Driving Urban Innovation
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From climate to housing to emergency response, local governments are advancing
local and global solutions that can save and improve lives. But to make real
progress, it's critical that cities have the capacity to solve problems in new
ways — with robust data, innovative technology, and cross-sector collaboration.
In our latest episode of the Follow the Data podcast, James Anderson, who leads
our Government Innovation program, joins Nneka Sobers from the Urban Tech Hub
at Cornell Tech to talk about implementing ambitious solutions with city halls
around the world, and ensuring that great, proven ideas spread from city to
city.
LISTEN NOW
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Mike's Op-Ed: Empowering Students to Fulfill a Critical Need
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The healthcare industry today has 2 million open roles and is expected to need
4 million workers by 2031 to care for America's aging population. "A big part
of the reason hospitals and other healthcare providers cannot fill these jobs,"
writes Mike in a recent op-ed
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, "is that college graduates often look elsewhere for jobs, and high school
graduates often are not prepared for them." Earlier this month,Bloomberg
Philanthropies launched a career and technical education initiative to train
high school students in 10 urban and rural communities to enter healthcare jobs
right after graduation
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, without requiring four years of college. In addition to helping close the
talent gap in healthcare, the initiative is a model for other high-growth
industries to find talent, and empowers high school graduates with
opportunities beyond the "unappealing choice" that, Mike writes, they often
face: "Go to college and take on debt, or face severely restricted career
prospects." Read Mike's op-ed to learn more about this first-of-its-kind
initiative.
READ MIKE'S OP-ED
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Helping Cultural Organizations Use Technology to Reach Audiences and Generate
Revenue
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The pandemic made clear how technology can help cultural organizations connect
with audiences, artists, and their communities — and how many organizations
lack the digital infrastructure to seize those opportunities. In 2021, we
launched the Digital Accelerator Program to help arts and culture organizations
strengthen their technology and management practices. Over the last two years
the program has supported more than 150 art galleries, theaters, and other
nonprofits in the U.S. and U.K., and our first cohort of 40 organizations has
added $20 million in new revenue, reached more than one million new audience
members, and engaged with 4,000 new artists and partners.Now we're expanding
the program to up to 50 more organizations
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and how it's helping cultural organizations amplify their impact.
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The Petrochemical Building Blocks of Plastics are a Major Threat
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Petrochemicals are a key ingredient in plastics, which means they can be found
in so many of the products we use — and throw away — every day. In the latest
video from Beyond Petrochemicals, Melissa Aguayo of Break Free From Plastic
explains, in under a minute, the many places where you might encounter
petrochemical-based plastics, and the threats they can pose to our health and
the environment.
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WATCH NOW
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Photo Spotlight
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With the help of our Asphalt Art Initiative, this key intersection in Long
Beach, California — near a nursery and a middle school — is now safer and more
colorful for the people who use it every day.See how the community came
together to bring the project to life.
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About our work
Bloomberg Philanthropies invests in 700 cities and 150 countries around the
world to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people. The
organization focuses on creating lasting change in five key areas: the Arts,
Education, Environment, Government Innovation, and Public Health.
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Public Health
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Innovation
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Bloomberg Philanthropies encompasses all of Michael R. Bloomberg's giving,
including his foundation, corporate, and personal philanthropy as well as
Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consultancy that advises cities around
the world. In 2023, Bloomberg Philanthropies distributed $3 billion.
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