News & Stories Grantees in the News, May 2021 By Jorge Cino on 7/2/2021 Share on 7/2/2021 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 May 2021: Climate Activists Defeat Exxon in Push for Clean EnergyThe New York TimesGrantees: Environmental Defense Fund, CeresProgram: Climate and Clean Energy EPA Moves To Cut a Group Of Powerful Greenhouse GasesNPRGrantee: Natural Resources Defense CouncilProgram: Climate and Clean Energy Get Ready for Financial Shocks From Climate Change, Biden Tells OfficialsThe New York TimesGrantee: CeresProgram: Climate and Clean Energy Uber, Lyft Have To Transition To Electric Vehicles In CaliforniaForbesGrantee: Union of Concerned ScientistsProgram: Climate and Clean Energy Amid Wave Of Anti-Trans Bills, Trans Reporters Say ‘Telling Our Own Stories’ Is VitalNPRGrantee: TransLashProgram: 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 Op-ed: Downtown West Sets New Standard for Addressing Displacement And Community VoiceSan Jose SpotlightGrantees: SOMOS Mayfair, Latinos United for a New America, Sacred Heart Community Service, People Acting in Community TogetherProgram: Community and Opportunity MapLab: Redistricting RundownBloombergGrantee: Brennan CenterProgram: Community and Opportunity ‘Already In Need of Healing’: San Jose Religious Leaders Hold First Vigil Honoring VTA Shooting VictimsSan Jose Mercury NewsGrantee: People Acting in Community TogetherProgram: Community and Opportunity Policymakers Used to Ignore Child Care. Then Came the Pandemic.The New York TimesGrantees: Center for the Study of Child Care Employment/UC BerkeleyProgram: Education Weathering the Storm Of Motherhood Requires A Care InfrastructureThe HillGrantee: MomsRisingProgram: Education The Four Freedoms Fund Has Backed Immigrant Rights for 18 Years. Here’s How, and What’s NextInside PhilanthropyGrantee: Four Freedoms FundProgram: Human Rights LA Times Today: Organization Seeks to Re-Imagine Juvenile Criminal Justice in Los AngelesLos Angeles TimesGrantee: Youth Justice CoalitionProgram: Human Rights White House Officials Meet Virtually With Criminal Justice Reform AdvocatesThe HillGrantee: JustLeadership USAProgram: Human Rights The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison AbolitionNew YorkerGrantee: Interupting Criminalization Research in ActionProgram: Human Rights In Aftermath of Andrew Brown’s Killing, Echoes of North Carolina’s Awful History of Scapegoating Black PeopleCNNGrantee: Repairers of the BreachProgram: Human Rights ICE to Stop Detaining Immigrants At Two County Jails Under Federal InvestigationThe Washington PostGrantee: Detention Watch NetworkProgram: Human Rights Physicists Receive Gruber Cosmology Prize For Insights Into Early UniverseEureka Alert!Grantee: Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics at UC BerkeleyProgram: Science Black Women’s Experiences in STEM Inspire an Annual WorkshopPhysics TodayGrantee: Department of Physics at Harvard UniversityProgram: Science Close Share this page Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Email