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The Rockefeller Foundation has committed $10 million in support Mission 300, a World Bank Group and African Development Bank’s initiative to connect 300 million Africans to electricity by 2030. Today, more than 730 million people still lack access to basic electricity, with an estimated 600 million living in Africa. This shortage hinders healthcare, education, digital […]
Continue ReadingDelivery of medical supplies from the World Health Organization’s global humanitarian supply hub in Dubai were briefly paralyzed after the United State and Israel launched war in Iran. While the hub announced that it would be resuming operations by March 7, the work is now to prioritize priority backlogs and process urgent new shipments to […]
Continue ReadingThe National Insitutes of Health, National Science Foundation and NASA have not yet received funding after Congress passed a $50 billion foreign affairs spending bill over a month ago. The president of the United States signed the bill into law on Feb. 3, with appropriations covering programs like global health initiatives, humanitarian aid and support […]
Continue ReadingSen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.)introduced the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act. If enacted as proposed, the legislation would establish a 5% annual wealth tax on the 938 billionaires in America, who are now collectively worth $8.2 […]
Continue ReadingLift Orlando will cover the cost of college or technical education at Valencia College for approximately 1,500 local Jones High School students in the 2026-2029 classes. The scholarship, called Lift Scholars, is modeled after Osceola County’s successful Osceola Prosper initiative, and aims to increase college enrollment among Jones High School students by eliminating the barrier of […]
Continue ReadingA new and privately-funded Be the People campaign challenges the idea that the United States is hopelessly divided or that individuals lack the power to address issues like poverty, addiction, violence and stalled economic mobility. The campaign emerged from the Stand Together Trust, a philanthropic community established in 2014 by the chairman and co-CEO of […]
Continue ReadingOn Jan. 22, an FPV drone struck a passenger vehicle killing two people who were helping carry out a humanitarian bread delivery on behalf of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Region near the frontline According to a United Nations release, the food was provided by WFP partner ADRA and intended […]
Continue ReadingNew York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and incoming Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Dina Levy announced a $2.1 million settlement involving A&E Real Estate properties to address tenant harassment and hazardous conditions across 14 buildings in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. The settlement requires A&E to correct more than 4,000 housing code violations and includes […]
Continue ReadingThe Guardian has raised more than £1m for over 10,000 readers in its Hope appeal to support grassroots charities working to combat social division, racism and hatred with practical community projects. The appeal closed on Jan. 15 and will have five partner charities that will share the donations: Citizens UK, the Linking Network, Locality, Hope Unlimited Charitable Trust […]
Continue ReadingThis year, a record number of world leaders are gathering in the Swiss Alps for the invitation-only World Economic Forum (WEF) around the theme “A Spirit of Dialogue” as geopolitical tumult continues to rage. The annual event, which has been taking place since 1971, in Davos, Switzerland, was founded on a vision of that businesses […]
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