Year-End Reflections from Our Board and Acting President and CEO Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 12/18/2024 on 12/18/2024 As we approach the end of 2024, the Heising-Simons Foundation expresses its sincere appreciation for our partners’ resilience and commitment to make progress together on some of the most pressing issues of our time.
One Year Into My Role as President and CEO Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/21/2024 on 2/21/2024 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 …
President’s Year-End Letter Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 12/18/2023 on 12/18/2023 Dear Grantees and Partners: When the Heising-Simons Foundation welcomed me as its new leader in February 2023, we as a staff and Board embarked on a shared journey to reflect on the many changes taking place within the Foundation and in the world. The nature of the problems we are tackling—whether the scale of climate …
Letter from the President and CEO — Spring 2023 Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 6/6/2023 on 6/6/2023 The Greenland ice sheet extends more than 600,000 square miles, covering most of the country. It is about four times the size of California and it is melting. The loss from the ice sheet is responsible for a significant percentage of today’s sea level rise.
Letter from the President and CEO Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 3/9/2023 on 3/9/2023 It is not every day that a person gets to join such a thoughtful, talented network of strong leaders working on the country’s most pressing problems. But that is the great fortune I have been afforded, joining the Heising-Simons Foundation as its new President and CEO.
A Big Thank You Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 12/19/2022 on 12/19/2022 As I emailed earlier this year, after 10 years at the Heising-Simons Foundation, I am now retiring. I wanted to reach out to you once more, to thank you and to wish you well.
Introducing Our New Director of the Climate and Clean Energy Program Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 12/2/2021 on 12/2/2021 I’m delighted to announce that Roland Hwang will join the Heising-Simons Foundation as the new director of our Climate and Clean Energy program.
An Equity Framework: Our Commitment To Change Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 11/19/2021 on 11/19/2021 Today, I want to share with you the Equity Framework we have been developing at the Foundation over the past year. In this document you’ll find what we mean by equity, and how we seek to translate words into action, including employing a set of questions to guide and learn from our decisions.
Letter From the President: Yesterday, Today, and the Future Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 1/7/2021 on 1/7/2021 I can’t even begin with “On days like this,” because there has been no day like yesterday, no events like this in our Capitol, in our living memory. It is a time that stirs anger, sadness, and deep distress.