News & Stories Grantees in the News, August- September 2021 By Nondas Paschos on 9/26/2021 Share on 9/26/2021 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 August and September 2021: More Transmission or Local Solar? To Quickly Cut Emissions, We Need Both.ForbesGrantee: American Council on Renewable EnergyProgram: Climate and Clean Energy Biden Calls for Half of New Cars to be Electric or Plug-in Hybrids by 2030The Washington PostGrantees: Union of Concerned Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council, BlueGreen AllianceProgram: Climate and Clean Energy The Voting Fix that cannot Wait: Stopping Partisan GerrymanderingThe Washington PostGrantee: Brennan CenterProgram: Community and Opportunity San Jose can Reckon with and Heal the Damage of Redlining and RacismSan Jose SpotlightGrantee: Latinos United for a New AmericaProgram: Community and Opportunity How California Teachers are Welcoming back English Learners — with Language and CommunityEdSourceGrantee: Sobrato Early Academic LanguageProgram: Education Treasury says U.S. child care system is a market failureMarketplaceGrantee: Urban Institute and Center for Law and Social PolicyProgram: Education Humanizing Life Behind BarsFort Worth WeeklyGrantee: Texas Jail ProjectProgram: Human Rights Two Santa Clara supervisors call for state, grand jury investigations into jails after multimillion-dollar abuse settlementThe Mercury NewsGrantee: Silicon Valley De-BugProgram: Human Rights Where Police Killings Often Meet With Silence: Rural AmericaThe New York TimesGrantee: The Marshall ProjectProgram: Human Rights A Vietnamese refugee served as one of California’s inmate firefighters. Then the state gave him to ICESan Francisco ChronicleGrantees: Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law CaucusProgram: Human Rights A Fight to Expose the Hidden Human Costs of IncarcerationThe New YorkerGrantee: Southern Center for Human Rights; Texas Jail ProjectProgram: Human Rights Through Black Immigrants Eyes: The Transition Between the Trump and Biden AdministrationBlack NewsGrantee: UndocuBlack NetworkProgram: Human Rights Black Immigrants have been Left Out of Policy Decisions for too Long, Organizers SayNBC NewsGrantee: UndocuBlack NetworkProgram: Human Rights Resisting The Allure of InnocenceTexas ObserverGrantee: Texas After Violence ProjectProgram: Human Rights Environmental Groups Ask Congress to Fund Billions of Dollars in Climate Measures in ReconciliationCNNGrantees:Climate Power, League of Conservation Voters, Center for American Progress, Natural Resources Defense CouncilProgram: Climate and Clean Energy Illinois Signs Landmark Clean Energy LawGristGrantees: Union of Concerned Scientists, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense CouncilProgram: Climate and Clean Energy ‘Helping People is Satisfying for Me’: Gabriela Chavez-Lopez Takes Back the Power”San Jose SpotlightGrantee: The Latina Coalition of Silicon ValleyProgram: Community and Opportunity Panel Supports Idea to Drop San Jose Parking RequirementsSan Jose SpotlightGrantees: Catalyze SVProgram: Community and Opportunity Our child-care System has been Failing Women, Men and Kids. That May Change.The Washington PostGrantee: National Association for the Education of Young ChildrenProgram: Education ‘The Pay is Absolute Crap: Child-care Workers are Quitting Rapidly, a Red Flag for the EconomyThe Washington PostGrantees: National Association for the Education of Young ChildrenProgram: Education Our Collective Amnesia About ChildcareLos Angeles TimesGrantee: Center for the Study of Child Care EmploymentProgram: Education Omo Moses Wants to Activate Cambridge’s Public Spaces; Plans for Mile-long ‘Math Trail’WICKEDLOCAL.comGrantees: MathTalkProgram: Education All ICE Detainees Moved Out of South Georgia JailThe Atlanta Journal ConstitutionGrantee: Project SouthProgram: Human Rights Close Share this page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Email