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The challenges of recent history have only reinforced our commitment to building a better future.
More than halfway through 2021, we're excited to support a range of initiatives defined by their creativity, resilience, and optimism: New possibilities to expand access to higher education. Groundbreaking urban innovations from mayors and cities around the world. Public art that mobilizes communities to action. Diverse voices in the fields where our greatest problems will be solved. And more.
In this edition of our Impact Newsletter, we're proud to showcase some of the many ways people continue to step up, work together, and improve lives.
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As a Global Ambassador for the United Nations Race to Zero and Race to Resilience campaigns, Mike works to mobilize cities, businesses, investors, and the public to fight climate change. This week he joined two of his fellow Global Ambassadors to pen an article about the broad benefits of cutting harmful emissions — which will not only reduce the effects of climate change, but will also strengthen public health, protect nature, create jobs and foster equality and opportunity.
Jackson, Mississippi's Public Art Challenge winning project, Fertile Ground, aims to illuminate disparities in food equity through art. The project's new documentary, now available on PBS, highlights the historic system of segregation that led to food access challenges. It also spotlights the city's creative approaches and the people working together to create a culture of healthier food options.
Mike and the judges for this year's Bloomberg Philanthropies Mayors Challenge explain what went into choosing the 50 Champion Cities, and why urban innovations taking place around the world can address today's — and tomorrow's — biggest challenges.
Our CollegePoint program has reached more 70,000 lower-income high school students since 2014, helping them apply to and enroll in top colleges. The pandemic highlighted the enormous benefits of virtual advising for students on their journey to higher education — especially in places where schools lack resources and students often navigate admissions processes without support. Nick Watson, program lead of CollegePoint, and Angel B. Pérez, CEO of the National Association for College Admission Counseling, wrote for Inside Higher Ed about the importance of virtual advising and why we should expand programs to reach more students.
This spring, we launched the Vivien Thomas Scholars Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, an effort to address underrepresentation in science, technology, engineering, and math — or STEM fields. In this episode of our Follow the Data podcast, Damani Piggott, the inaugural associate vice provost for Graduate Diversity and Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, the president of Spelman College, sit with Garnesha Ezediaro of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Greenwood Initiative to discuss the need to support diverse scholars and the importance of pathways for the next generation of leaders in STEM fields.
Listen now → | Six global cities will deploy innovation teams — or "i-teams" — to accelerate digital transformation of local services. The i-teams will help mayors and city leaders to leverage data and digital technologies, and enhance public services in their communities. The teams will work across city government, and with residents themselves, to understand challenges and develop and test transformative solutions. "These six cities are already raising the bar for innovation in the public sector," said Mike. "This investment will help supercharge their work to bring city services into the digital future." Find out where the teams are headed, and the impact they will have.
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