News & Stories Grantees in the News, June – July 2021 By Erin Talbert-Brust on 8/12/2021 Share on 8/12/2021 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 June and July 2021: As Investment Grows in Electric Cars, Groups Work to Make Sure the Future is Fair The Denver Channel Grantee: EVHybridNoire Program: Climate and Clean Energy DC Circuit Moves to Vacate Spire STL Certificate; Finds FERC Scrutiny LackingS&P Global PlattsGrantee: Environmental Defense FundProgram: Climate and Clean Energy The Head of the Committee to Protect Journalists Offers a Warning as He Prepares to Step Down The New York Times Grantee: Committee to Protect Journalists Program: Community and Opportunity San Jose Flea Market Vendors Protest Development Plan San Jose Spotlight Grantees: Catalyze SV, Latinos United for a New America, Working Partnerships USA, SIREN Program: Community and Opportunity Federal Court Strikes Down CA’s Three Decade Old Assault Weapon Ban, Will It Matter?KQEDGrantee: Violence Prevention Research Program at UC DavisProgram: Community and Opportunity An Arms Race in America: Gun Buying Spiked During the Pandemic. It’s Still Up.The New York TimesGrantee: UC Davis Violence Prevention CenterProgram: Community and Opportunity ‘Bad to horrific’: Racial Discrimination and Wealth Inequality Grew Under COVID-19San Jose SpotlightGrantee: Human Rights Institute at San Jose StateProgram: Community and Opportunity Nonprofit EmbraceRace Helps Parents Explain Race to ChildrenABC News (recirculated from The Chronicle of Philanthropy) Grantee: EmbraceRaceProgram: Community and Opportunity Plans for free pre-K and community college could provide a ‘ladder into the middle class.’The New York TimesGrantee: National Institute for Early Education ResearchProgram: Education How Latina Community Leaders Rallied Together After Austin’s Disastrous StormVogueGrantees: Workers Defense ProjectProgram: Education Ny Nourn: the Woman Convicted of Murder and Pardoned – Who Now Fights for Other Battered WomenThe GuardianGrantee: Asian American Advancing JusticeProgram: Human Rights Faith Leaders Demand that Black Voters have Fair Voting RightsCNNGrantee: Repairers of the Breach Inc.Program: Human Rights The US Must Adopt Child Welfare Strategies for Unaccompanied MinorsThe HillGrantee: Immigrant Legal Resource CenterProgram: Human Rights Opinion: at gunpoint, Police Handcuffed me after License-Plate Reader ErrorEast Bay TimesGrantee: Ella Baker CenterProgram: Human Rights Scientists are Going Back to Einstein to Best Yoda — and Know the Fate of the UniverseCNNGrantee: Regents at UC BerkeleyProgram: Science Supercomputer Embarks on Effort to Help Map the Universe, Dark Energy and AllThe Wall Street JournalGrantee: Regents at UC BerkeleyProgram: Science A New Technique for “Seeing” Exoplanet Surfaces Based on the Content of their AtmospheresUniverse TodayGrantee: Xinting Xu, 51 Pegasi b fellowProgram: Science Ask Ethan: How Can we Tell if an Exoplanet Has a Surface?ForbesGrantee: Xinting Xu, 51 Pegasi b fellowProgram: Science The Next Test for Environmental Justice Policy? Defining ‘Disadvantaged Communities.’Universe TodayGrantee: GristProgram: Climate and Clean Energy Biden plan would tighten mileage for new cars over the next four yearsThe Washington Post Grantee: Environmental Defense FundProgram: Climate and Clean Energy A Carbon Calculation: how Many Deaths do Emissions Cause?The New York TimesGrantees: Climate Impact Lab at Rhodium, Resources for the Future, Institute for Policy Integrity at New York UniversityProgram: Climate and Clean Energy New Incentive Programs for EV Buyers, but Connecticut’s Goal Still A Long Way OffConnecticut Public RadioGrantee: EVHybridNoireProgram: Climate and Clean Energy In its Fifth year, Report for America will Attack news Deserts in Rural Areas and Support a Broadened Group of BeatsPoynterGrantee: Report for AmericaProgram: Community and Opportunity Looking Behind the Wave of Anti-Trans BillsThe Recast Grantee: TranslashProgram: Community and Opportunity How California’s New Universal Transitional Kindergarten Program will be Rolled OutEdSourceGrantees: Kidango Inc., Children Now, National Institute for Early Education Research, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes at Rutgers University, The Board of Trustees at Leland Stanford Junior UniversityProgram: Education Charles River Math Trail Inspires Children to Think CreativelyBoston Globe Grantees: MathTalk PBC, The Young People’s ProjectProgram: Education Gov. Newsom Accused of Backtracking on Announced Plan to Close More Prisons in New BudgetThe Vanguard Grantee: Californians United for a Responsible BudgetProgram: Human Rights Marine Once ‘Locked in Limbo’ Advocates for Change from State Mental HospitalKXANGrantee: Jail Project of TexasProgram: Human Rights San Marcos Activists Seek Justice for Slain WomanSpectrum News 1Grantee: Mano AmigoProgram: Human Rights Haziness of exoplanet atmospheres depends on properties of aerosol particlesScience NewsGrantee: Xinting Xu, 51 Pegasi b fellowProgram: Science This is Why Some Mysterious Exoplanets are Shrouded in a Hazy CurtainScientiasGrantee: Xinting Xu, 51 Pegasi b fellowProgram: Science Close Share this page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Email