Supporting Solidarity and Power Building Across Movements Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 8/23/2022 on 8/23/2022 Over the last two years, the pandemic exposed the intersections of multiple structures of inequality including race, ethnicity, gender, immigration status, and class, which have a multiplying, devastating effect when they cross paths for the same individual. Immigrant women of color, their families, and communities have experienced criminalization in this country in similar yet different ways.
New Initiative Seeks to Center Expertise of Early Learning Practitioners in California Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 8/19/2022 on 8/19/2022 The Heising-Simons Foundation is pleased to support the Tides Foundation’s new grantmaking effort seeking to center the expertise of early learning practitioners in the policy process in California. This new effort is also supported by Tipping Point Community, Blue Shield of California Foundation, and California Community Foundation.
Turning the Corner on Climate, Rolling up Our Sleeves Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 8/18/2022 on 8/18/2022 After a decades long battle, the U.S. has finally turned the corner on our fight to avert the most dangerous impacts of climate change with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
New Evaluation Tool for Education Funders Supporting Parent-Led Organizations Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 8/17/2022 on 8/17/2022 Funders for Family Leadership (FFL) has launched the Philanthropic Self-Reflection Tool for Equitable Parent Partnership for education funders and funder collaboratives supporting parent-led organizations.
Q & A with Mariame Kaba, founder and director of Project Nia, and co-founder and principal at Interrupting Criminalization Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 7/18/2022 on 7/18/2022 Q & A with Mariame Kaba, founder, and director of Project Nia and also co-founder and a principal at Interrupting Criminalization. Mariame Kaba is also a co-founder of Survived and Punished, a national formation that is working alongside and on behalf of criminalized survivors of violence.
Foundation Advisory Board Member And NASA’s NuSTAR Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 7/15/2022 on 7/15/2022 Heising-Simons Foundation Science Advisory Board Member, Dr. Fiona Harrison— the Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics, Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy at California Institute of Technology—is also renowned for being principal investigator for NASA’s NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) mission.
A Letter from Liz Simons, Chair of the Board Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 7/13/2022 on 7/13/2022 Some 15 years ago, when our family foundation was barely a glimmer in our eye, I met Deanna at an early childhood education gathering in San Jose. Deanna stood out from the other policy experts; she was brilliant, steeped in knowledge about young children’s learning. I was delighted when she agreed to go out to lunch with me and talk to me about everything she knew.
NuSTAR Celebrates 10 Years in Space Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 6/30/2022 on 6/30/2022 Principal Investigator (PI) and Scientific Advisory Board member at NASA’s NuSTAR program, Fiona Harrison, helped celebrate 10-years in space with an exciting video detailing the program’s accomplishments over the years. The flagship mission has made numerous discoveries of extreme cosmic objects including black holes, supernova remnants, pulsars, and the Sun to name a few.
Translash Q&A with Imara Jones Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 6/30/2022 on 6/30/2022 My name is Imara Jones and I am the founder and CEO of Translash Media. Translash is a nonprofit media organization that uses the power of journalism and nonfiction narratives to help center trans people at a time of social backlash by telling trans stories as a tool to lower the ignorance about our community and consequently violence against our community.