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Type: The Stories That Make Us

Bringing Together Unlikely Allies for Clean Cities

Woman bikes in downtown Denver Woman steps off the Kansas City Streetcar Woman charges her car in Colorado “What would happen if [two discrete advocacy groups] were both pushing for the same goals under one banner, leveraging each other’s strengths and assets?” Matt Oberhoffner, climate and clean energy program officer, Heising-Simons Foundation In 2020, COVID-19 …

A Shot in the Dark

Researching one of the most puzzling unsolved problems in physics. Written by Michael Blanding This essay is part of The Stories that Make Us, featuring key efforts in the Foundation’s history. Photos of FASER installation, a visit by Mark Heising and Jim Simons, and experiments, courtesy of CERN. Photos by: 1) Maximilien Brice and Julien …

A Better Way to Support Early Educators

Heising-Simons Foundation is helping transform the early childhood education workforce. Written by Michael Blanding This article is part of The Stories that Make Us, featuring key efforts in the Foundation’s history. Students and a teacher at EDvance outside. Teachers at EDvance inside. Students and teachers at EDvance outside. A student and a teacher at EDvance …