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Heising-Simons Foundation Awards $25.6M to Systems Change Efforts in Second Quarter of 2024

Interviews

Human Rights Program Featured in Inside Philanthropy

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Photo collage of people from grantees Tandem, Partners in Early Learning, Urban Peace Movement, and more.

Heising-Simons Foundation Grantees Awarded MacKenzie Scott Large Grants

Foundation Perspectives

U.S./Mexico border wall.

Human Rights Day: A Funder’s Perspective On the Crisis at the U.S.-Mexico Border

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Human Rights Day: Join Article 3’s Commemoration, “Still We Rise”

Grantee Voices, Interviews

Carceral Carousel report cover.

The Carceral Carousel: Q&A with Grantees Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Detention Watch Network

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Top of the Supreme Court Building in half sun.

Heising-Simons Foundation Joins Philanthropic Funders in Response to Supreme Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action

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Liz Simons: “The Biggest Driver of Mass Incarceration? Maybe Mass Incarceration”

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Introducing Three New Colleagues

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Supporting Solidarity and Power Building Across Movements

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People marching for youth education, and against youth incarceration.

Q & A with Mariame Kaba, founder and director of Project Nia, and co-founder and principal at Interrupting Criminalization

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Photo of a group of people from Essie Justice Group.

Introducing Two New Program Officers for the Human Rights Team