Watch a message from Mike Bloomberg and Bloomberg Philanthropies CEO Patti Harris on our 2024-2025 Annual Report: 
In his Founder's Letter opening our 2024-2025 Annual Report, Mike writes that "Bloomberg Philanthropies follows the same mantra we adopted in New York’s City Hall: Make Every Day Count."
The data points below show how our teams and partners make every day count across our program areas: The Arts, Education, Environment, Government Innovation, and Public Health, as well as our Founder's Projects and Bloomberg Associates, our pro bono consultancy that advises cities around the world facing complex challenges.
Scroll down to see highlights, and click into the Annual Report to see even more. You can also explore the sections of the Report covering the areas that matter the most to you:
 Every student deserves the chance to get a high-quality education. Our Education program focuses on expanding access to educational opportunities and supporting student success from kindergarten through high school, to college, career training, and beyond. 
High school students at Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers in Boston, one of the healthcare-focused high schools we've created.
In 2024, we launched a first-of-its-kind initiative that partners high schools with healthcare systems across the U.S. to prepare students for jobs in healthcare fields. Four of these "healthcare high schools" opened in the fall of 2024, and five more are opening this coming fall, with one more coming in 2026. They’ll serve nearly 6,000 students at full capacity.
Our ambitious program to expand access to high-quality public charter schools in key metro areas across the United States has reached 143,000 newly committed charter seats — putting us 95 percent of the way to our goal of opening 150,000 seats.
In the continued effort to tackle learning loss following the pandemic, our Summer Boost program helped 35,000 students in more than 450 charter schools make learning gains over the summer months so they don't fall behind their peers.
 Art has the power to bring communities together and tackle major issues — and we believe it should be accessible to everyone. Our Arts program invests in artists, institutions, and audience experiences to strengthen the creative landscape and improve quality of life in cities around the world.
The free Bloomberg Connects app now offers more than 1,000 digital guides to museums and cultural institutions in the U.S. and around the world. Earlier this year, Bloomberg Connects featured an innovative augmented reality experience to mark the 20th anniversary of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's iconic public art installation The Gates in New York City's Central Park. 
In 2024, our Digital Arts Accelerator — which helps institutions use technology to reach new audiences, deliver dynamic programming, and much more — expanded to nearly 200 arts organizations, bringing the total to nearly 350 since the program’s 2021 inception.
The Bloomberg Arts Internship provides public school students with paid internships at a wide range of cultural institutions, helping them build valuable skills and gain experience in the arts. The program — which served just 25 students in New York City when it started in 2012 — has now placed more than 2,250 students at over 250 cultural organizations in seven cities.
 From protecting the ocean that supports the lives and livelihoods of billions of people, to improving air quality in cities and advancing clean energy, our Environment program works to revitalize natural resources, improve health, spur innovation, and create stronger, more sustainable local economies.
In 2024, Mexico City, Bogotá, and Bangkok joined our Breathe Cities program, which helps cities use data and policies to improve air quality. So far, 14 cities have implemented more than 20 clean air policies, cutting two major air pollutants by more than six percent.
The ocean is our greatest natural resource — and our efforts with a range of partners have helped strengthen protections for more than 11 million square miles of it. 
Those protected areas include two new marine reserves off the coast of Brazil covering an area roughly the size of New York City, 119,000 square miles of ocean near Antarctica, and more than 100,000 square miles encompassing the habitats and migration routes of chinstrap penguins, humpback whales, and other species near the South Sandwich Islands.
Cities are leading the way on climate action — and we're working with mayors and local leaders to drive innovative solutions. We continue to partner with groups like C40, whose 97 member cities have implemented more than 1,200 high-impact climate actions, and America Is All In, a coalition of more than 5,000 U.S. cities, states, businesses, universities, and tribes making up the largest coalition of local leaders ever assembled in support of U.S. climate action.
 Advances in public health have an extraordinary track record of saving and improving lives — and the potential to save and improve millions more. Our Public Health program strives to prevent the world's leading causes of death from noncommunicable diseases and injuries.
The fight to reduce tobacco use — especially among young people — continues to see live-saving progress. As of 2024, teen use of e-cigarettes was down 72% since 2019 — its lowest level in a decade.
Good data is essential for strong public health policy. Over the last decade, the Data for Health Initiative has helped collect or strengthen more than 37 million health records. Last year we reinvested in Data for Health to support continued collection of birth and death data, establishment of cancer registries, training, technical assistance and more. 
Of the 37 million health records Data for Health has helped collect or strengthen, nearly 17 million are birth records.
In 2024 we expanded our drowning prevention work and launched new efforts in 10 U.S. states with high numbers of drowning deaths.
While overdoses remain the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 50, there has been important progress. In 2024, the seven states where we focus our overdose prevention efforts saw a 31 percent average decline in overdose deaths, outpacing a 27 percent decline nationally.
 Cities are home to more people than ever before, putting them on the frontlines of big challenges and bold new ideas. Our Government Innovation program focuses on bolstering local governments' abilities and ambitions by strengthening their capacity to harness data, solve problems, and better serve residents.
Previous Mayors Challenge winning ideas include an effort to restore 2,500 acres of tree coverage in Freetown, Sierra Leone, and a mobile career van that helped more than 350 Phoenix, Arizona residents find jobs. To bring new creative solutions to life, we kicked off our largest global Mayors Challenge ever in 2024, and will name 25 winners with the strongest ideas to improve and reimagine essential city services like public transportation, emergency response, housing, and more. 
Mayors Challenge winner Freetown, Sierra Leone restored 2,500 acres of tree coverage.
In 2024, we launched our largest youth engagement initiative ever to help young people in 100 cities develop and implement projects that fight climate change and improve the environment. Participating cities have partnered with more than 100,000 young people on 1,100 projects.
To date, more than 800 cities have registered with the Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange, a first-of-its-kind platform for cities to share insights on proven and promising ideas. At Bloomberg CityLab in 2024, we announced the first set of 11 ideas we will help replicate, drawing on the most successful city ideas from across our work.
Bloomberg Associates, a philanthropic consultancy, offers pro bono support for local leaders to make their cities stronger, safer, and more efficient.
Founded in 2014, Bloomberg Associates has worked on more than 1,000 projects to improve residents' lives in cities around the world. 
Mayor Kate Gallego of Phoenix helps launch a new shaded playground, part of efforts supported by Bloomberg Associates.
A master plan developed to address extreme heat in Phoenix, Arizona used data and 3D modeling to pinpoint places where shade is needed most, guiding efforts to plant 27,000 trees and create 500 shade structures across the city.
In Newark, New Jersey, a shared bike and e-scooter pilot program that Bloomberg Associates helped design and launch was permanently adopted in 2024. The NewarkGo program has provided more than 1.76 million trips to upwards of 75,000 users.
Founder's Projects are unique efforts that fall outside of our core program areas.
In 2024 we announced a commitment to bolster the endowments and financial sustainability of America's four historically Black medical schools, and made a gift to help create a new medical school at Xavier University of Louisiana. 
Students at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, which is now tuition-free for the majority of students.
A 2024 commitment to Johns Hopkins University will provide financial aid for graduate students across the university and make the medical school tuition-free for all students from families earning less than $300,000 per year, while also covering living expenses for students from families earning less than $175,000.
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