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Type: Grantee Voices

Grantee Partner Publications, July– August 2023

The Heising-Simons Foundation is proud to highlight publications by grantee partners. We encourage you to look through their inspiring work. Email us at [email protected] if you would like us to share any publications. TransLash Media A Voice for Anti-Trans, Mass Media Date of Publication: July 13, 2023Type of Publication: Podcast EpisodeFoundation Initiative: Journalism – Stanford …

Imagery that Moves Planets and People

A glowing dot passes behind a blackened circle and reappears on the other side. Four luminous pin pricks orbit a dark central body. These moving images are not models. They are real exoplanets: directly observed, recorded, and time-lapsed, inviting people around the world to glimpse distant solar systems and their dynamics over more than a decade—in just seconds.

The Carceral Carousel: Q&A with Grantees Immigrant Legal Resource Center and Detention Watch Network

Over the past three decades, the federal immigration and criminal legal systems have become increasingly intertwined. Using the criminalization of Black and brown people as a tool, these two systems, working in tandem, have driven up rates of arrest, incarceration, and deportation, fueling the growth of the prison industry and leading to the separation of both citizen and noncitizen families.

Q&A With Grantee MomsRising: What President Biden’s Executive Order Means for Child Care

In April 2023, the Biden administration signed a historic Care Executive Order to expand access to affordable, high-quality care, and provide support for care workers and family caregivers. Notable provisions include directives to federal agencies to increase compensation for the early childhood workforce, increase subsidy reimbursement rates, strengthen benefits, and reduce family costs. It also …

Grantee Partner Publications, May – June 2023

The Heising-Simons Foundation is proud to highlight publications by grantee partners. We encourage you to look through their inspiring work. Email us at [email protected] if you would like us to share any publications. Community Schools Learning Exchange (co-author) Don’t leave students with disabilities out of California’s massive community schools investment Date of Publication: May 1, …

Q&A with Grantee UnboundEd: Finding Common Ground for Effective Literacy Instruction in California

In California, twenty percent of students attending public schools are classified as English learners, a term that identifies students who speak a language other than English at home, and who are learning English in other settings. As the state with the largest English learner population in the country, discussions on how to deliver appropriate reading …

Grantee Partner Publications, March – April 2023

The Heising-Simons Foundation is proud to highlight publications by grantee partners. We encourage you to take time to look through their inspiring work. Email us at [email protected] if you would like us to share any publications. Economic Security Project So Much More Than a Check: Lessons Learned in the Fight for the Child Tax Credit …

Grantee Partner Publications, March – April 2023

The Heising-Simons Foundation is proud to highlight publications by grantee partners. We encourage you to take time to look through their inspiring work. Email us at [email protected] if you would like us to share any publications. Economic Security Project So Much More Than a Check: Lessons Learned in the Fight for the Child Tax Credit …

“1,800 Days: The Story of Early Childhood in the U.S.” Podcast – Q&A with Erikson Institute

Since 2017, the Heising-Simons Foundation’s Education program has been supporting the Erikson Institute, an independent graduate school for early childhood development, education, and social work.