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Dec 4, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
While the promises of justice, equality, and the right to participate in civic life are fundamental to democratic societies, many communities across the United States face significant barriers to full engagement and participation.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
A documentary about journalism grantee The 19th has just been released on streaming platforms, chronicling the nonprofit newsroom’s launch, triumphs and challenges. “Breaking the News” features deliberations around and reporting on key major news events such as the coronavirus pandemic, the killing of Breonna Taylor, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The documentary premiered at the TriBeCa Film Festival in June 2023 and was first broadcast on PBS in February 2024.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
Heising-Simons Foundation awarded $25.6 million to systems change efforts across 57 grants during the second quarter of 2024. This latest round of system change funding supports efforts to advance climate and clean energy policies, ensure that AI does not disrupt the upcoming 2024 election, and develop a clearer understanding of the causes of the profound underrepresentation of women in the fields of mathematical and physical sciences.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
The Heising-Simons Foundation has awarded $3.19 million this year, to address the ongoing impact of technology on society in advance of Wednesday’s Technology and Society Summit at the Foundation. The Foundation has awarded $7.88 million to address issues in this space since Sushma Raman joined as the Foundation’s president and CEO in 2023.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
Heising-Simons Foundation’s Human Rights Program Director Angie Junck and Program Officer Rose Cahn were featured in Inside Philanthropy this week. In the interview, Angie and Rose talk about the intersectionality of immigrant justice with other issues of criminalization, being a pathfinder funder for new coalitions and emergent opportunities, and supporting narrative change.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Jorge Cino |Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
“Since Congress failed to extend the child care stabilization funding from the American Rescue Plan Act in September 2023, the supply of child care has fallen off a cliff in many places across the United States, and its effects on families and the early childhood education workforce are being felt more than ever,” says Rebecca Gomez, Ed.D., program officer for the Foundation’s Education program at Heising-Simons Foundation.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Jorge Cino |Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
Several grantees of the Heising-Simons Foundation have been awarded unrestricted grants in the $1-2 million range for “outstanding work advancing the voices and opportunities of individuals and families of meager or modest means, and groups who have met with discrimination and other systemic obstacles,” Yield Giving announced this week. Our grantees join a total pool of 361 community-led nonprofit recipients. Yield Giving is the philanthropic organization established by MacKenzie Scott in 2022.
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Mar 27, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
Heising-Simons Foundation President and CEO Sushma Raman will speak at the Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative (EPLI), hosted by the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS), from May 1-3, followed by a virtual component May 8-10. EPLI is a 6-day executive-style learning course for philanthropy professionals. The course will cover:Donors’ values and focus areas for giving. Social problems, their causes, and strategies for solutions.
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
FRONTLINE documentary film 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, made in partnership with the Associated Press (AP), won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the Oscars ceremony in March 2024. 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL tells the important and powerful story from the perspective of an AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol during the Russian invasion. In 2023, the journalists behind the film won a Pulitzer Prize in Public Service for the film as well.
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Mar 4, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Madeleine Sheehan Perkins
MethaneSAT, a new satellite that will find and measure methane emissions with unparalleled precision – including emissions that other satellites simply can’t see, successfully launched from Vanderberg Space Force Base on March 4, 2024, with the aid of SpaceX. MethaneSAT is funded by Climate and Clean Energy grantee Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Heising-Simons Foundation Board member Mark Heising serves as Chair of the Board of EDF and sits on the steering committee of MethaneSAT.
