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The Heising-Simons Foundation focuses its grantmaking in these areas
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Climate and Clean Energy
Our goal is to protect people and the planet from the worst impacts of climate change by cutting pollution and accelerating the transition to a clean energy future.
Education
Our goal is to facilitate the creation and strengthening of early childhood systems necessary for children from low-income families and children of color to reach their full potential by the year 2044.
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Our program envisions a society where people are free to live whole, safe, and dignified lives.
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Our goal is to support fundamental research primarily in the physical sciences.
CEO Fund: Technology and Society
Our goal is to address the impact of technology on society—harnessing its promise and mitigating its risks.
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The Foundation’s journalism grants strive to strengthen and sustain journalism as an essential arm of U.S. democracy.
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The Heising-Simons Foundation focuses its grantmaking in five program areas
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Climate and Clean Energy Program Awards $2.68M to Systems Change Efforts
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07/16/19
Northwest Passage Project: Exploring a Changing Arctic
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07/03/19
Searching for Earth-like Exoplanets in the Northern Skies
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06/20/19
Our Ignorance About Gravity
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05/16/19
Increasing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Physics and Astronomy
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05/03/19
Introducing the Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professorship at UC San Diego
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04/24/19
51 Pegasi b Fellow Helps Break New Ground in Exoplanet Imaging
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03/27/19
2019 Class of 51 Pegasi b Fellows Announced
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03/27/19
Intentionally Improving Processes for the 51 Pegasi b Fellowship
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03/06/19
A New Hunt for Undiscovered Dark Matter Particles at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
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05/31/18
Foundation Sponsors Student Scientists to Spend Summer at Mass Media Outlets
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05/23/18
A New Form of Matter? PROSPECT-ing for Sterile Neutrinos
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04/30/18
Axion Dark Matter Experiment Announces Breakthrough
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