The Heising-Simons Foundation is proud to regularly see its grantee partners featured in media outlets across the country, providing an expert voice on a timely issue or being highlighted for their accomplishments and hard work.
Here are some news items that have featured our grantees in August and September 2021:
More Transmission or Local Solar? To Quickly Cut Emissions, We Need Both.
Forbes
Grantee: American Council on Renewable Energy
Program: Climate and Clean Energy
Biden Calls for Half of New Cars to be Electric or Plug-in Hybrids by 2030
The Washington Post
Grantees: Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, BlueGreen Alliance
Program: Climate and Clean Energy
The Voting Fix that cannot Wait: Stopping Partisan Gerrymandering
The Washington Post
Grantee: Brennan Center
Program: Community and Opportunity
San Jose can Reckon with and Heal the Damage of Redlining and Racism
San Jose Spotlight
Grantee: Latinos United for a New America
Program: Community and Opportunity
How California Teachers are Welcoming back English Learners — with Language and Community
EdSource
Grantee: Sobrato Early Academic Language
Program: Education
Treasury says U.S. child care system is a market failure
Marketplace
Grantee: Urban Institute and Center for Law and Social Policy
Program: Education
Humanizing Life Behind Bars
Fort Worth Weekly
Grantee: Texas Jail Project
Program: Human Rights
Two Santa Clara supervisors call for state, grand jury investigations into jails after multimillion-dollar abuse settlement
Yhe Mercury News
Grantee: Silicon Valley De-Bug
Program: Human Rights
Where Police Killings Often Meet With Silence: Rural America
The New York Times
Grantee: The Marshall Project
Program: Human Rights
A Vietnamese refugee served as one of California’s inmate firefighters. Then the state gave him to ICE
San Francisco Chronicle
Grantees: Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
Program: Human Rights
A Fight to Expose the Hidden Human Costs of Incarceration
The New Yorker
Grantee: Southern Center for Human Rights; Texas Jail Project
Program: Human Rights
Through Black Immigrants Eyes: The Transition Between the Trump and Biden Administration
Black News
Grantee: UndocuBlack Network
Program: Human Rights
Black Immigrants have been Left Out of Policy Decisions for too Long, Organizers Say
NBC News
Grantee: UndocuBlack Network
Program: Human Rights
Resisting The Allure of Innocence
Texas Observer
Grantee: Texas After Violence Project
Program: Human Rights
Environmental Groups Ask Congress to Fund Billions of Dollars in Climate Measures in Reconciliation
CNN
Grantees:Climate Power, League of Conservation Voters, Center for American Progress, Natural Resources Defense Council
Program: Climate and Clean Energy
Illinois Signs Landmark Clean Energy Law
Grist
Grantees: Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council
Program: Climate and Clean Energy
‘Helping People is Satisfying for Me’: Gabriela Chavez-Lopez Takes Back the Power”
San Jose Spotlight
Grantee: The Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley
Program: Community and Opportunity
Panel Supports Idea to Drop San Jose Parking Requirements
San Jose Spotlight
Grantees: Catalyze SV
Program: Community and Opportunity
Our child-care System has been Failing Women, Men and Kids. That May Change.
The Washington Post
Grantee: National Association for the Education of Young Children
Program: Education
‘The Pay is Absolute Crap: Child-care Workers are Quitting Rapidly, a Red Flag for the Economy
The Washington Post
Grantees: National Association for the Education of Young Children
Program: Education
Our Collective Amnesia About Childcare
Los Angeles Times
Grantee: Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
Program: Education
Omo Moses Wants to Activate Cambridge’s Public Spaces; Plans for Mile-long ‘Math Trail’
WICKEDLOCAL.com
Grantees: MathTalk
Program: Education
All ICE Detainees Moved Out of South Georgia Jail
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Grantee: Project South
Program: Human Rights