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Nov 21, 2024 | 
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The Heising-Simons Foundation’s 51 Pegasi b fellowship is three-year postdoctoral fellowship that provides recipients with resources, freedom, and flexibility to conduct theoretical, observational, and experimental research in planetary astronomy. Established in 2017, the program awards up to eight fellowships per year and has grown to support a network of 58 fellows and alumni across 24 potential host institutions within the United States.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
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In summer 2024, the Foundation’s Climate and Clean Energy program awarded $2.68 million in grants to organizations and coalitions pushing for large-scale and sustainable clean energy development in the U.S.Although much of our energy infrastructure is still dependent on fossil fuels, the transition to clean energy is underway.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
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LOS ALTOS, CA, July 22, 2024–The Heising-Simons Foundation today named Jennifer Shipp as Acting President and CEO, effective immediately. Sushma Raman is stepping down from her role as President and CEO to pursue other opportunities and will remain associated with the Foundation as a strategic advisor to the Board through the end of 2024. “Sushma’s tenure saw us embark on important new areas of work, most notably the CEO Fund on technology and society.
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May 10, 2024 | 
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The Heising-Simons Foundation honors the life and legacy of Jim Simons, 86, who passed away on Friday, May 10, 2024. The father of Heising-Simons Foundation Chair Liz Simons, father-in-law of Vice Chair Mark Heising, and grandfather of Vice Chair Caitlin Heising, Jim (as he preferred to be called) was an award-winning mathematician, a legend in quantitative investing, and an inspired and generous philanthropist.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Jorge Cino |Nondas Paschos
The Heising-Simons Foundation’s Education program has awarded $4 million over two years to support 11 community-based organizations working to strengthen the pipeline of diverse parent leaders in California. This marks the second round of funding for these organizations, which are part of Families Lead California, an initiative that builds parent leaders’ power to influence policy to reflect the priorities of families with children ages 0-8 in the Golden State.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
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Ms. Raman joined Heising-Simons Foundation in February 2023 as President and CEO, where she also serves on the Foundation’s Board of Directors. She is a Board Member at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and, prior to joining Heising-Simons, was the Executive Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, a research center at Harvard Kennedy School. In February 2024, Ms. Raman shared insights about her journey at the helm of Heising-Simons Foundation in an interview with Inside Philanthropy.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
hsfoundation.org | Sushma Raman |Nondas Paschos
Dear Colleagues and Friends,“My work as a journalist seeks to connect silenced histories to our present day,” says Dara T. Mathis, one of two recipients of the Heising-Simons Foundation’s 2024 American Mosaic Journalism Prize. The Prize is awarded to freelance journalists for excellence in long-form, narrative, or deep reporting about underrepresented communities in the U.S. landscape.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
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We are pleased to share that Dr. Jochen (Joe) Marschall, currently serving as interim Science program director, has been appointed as Science program director at the Heising-Simons Foundation. Dr. Marschall was the first program officer to join the Science program team in 2015. During his time at the Foundation, he has been instrumental in developing initiatives across scientific domains, ranging from astronomy and astrophysics to climate science and fundamental physics.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
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We are pleased to announce that Kevin Luu, currently the chief financial officer and treasurer at Humanity United, will join the Heising-Simons Foundation as our chief financial officer. Kevin has more than 20 years of financial management experience and has been with Humanity United—a philanthropic organization that is a member of The Omidyar Group and dedicated to cultivating the conditions for enduring peace and freedom—since 2008.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
hsfoundation.org | Jorge Cino |Nondas Paschos
“We came so very close to getting a historic entitlement for child care in this country via Build Back Better, [and] even though we did not succeed, I think it’s important to recognize that advocates and organizers have, working in coalition, fundamentally changed the conversation about child care in this country,” said Dr. Rebecca Gomez in a Q&A with grantee Child Care Aware® of America (CCAofA), an organization that works with a national network of more than 500 child care resource and...
