2020 - Pershing Square Foundation

CUNY Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund To Aid Students Impacted By Covid-19 Pandemic Grows By 70 Percent Since April Launch

August 26th, 2020

Generosity of Foundations, Corporations and Individual Donors Enables University to Help 6,000 Students, More than Half of Them Undocumented Students Who Were Excluded from Federal CARES Act Relief Fund Now Surpasses $5.5 Million, to Help More Than 5,000 Additional Students The City University of New York’s Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Fund, established in the spring to … Continued

The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance Awards $4.2M to Seven Rising Leaders in Cancer Research

July 29th, 2020 / The Pershing Square Foundation

The Pershing Square Sohn Prize Has Supported 46 Cancer Scientists in the New York Life Science Ecosystem by Funding High-Risk, High-Reward Research NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance today announced the seven winners of the 2020 Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research, awarded annually to cancer research scientists and … Continued

PRESS RELEASE: The Pershing Square Foundation Awards $3 Million to Innovative SARS-CoV-2 Research Projects

July 7th, 2020 / The Pershing Square Foundation

Foundation Supports Leaders in Life Science who have Refocused Work to Combat the Coronavirus Pandemic NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Pershing Square Foundation (the “Foundation”) today announced that it has awarded $3 million to nineteen recipients at ten academic research institutions conducting research related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. As scientists across various disciplines around the world have risen … Continued

Donors still wary of no-strings cash gifts to tackle poverty

March 2nd, 2020 / Sarah Murray, Financial Times

Every few minutes on the GiveDirectly news feed an image pops up along with the story of someone who has received one of the US charity’s money transfers. For example, 23-year-old Millicent, who has a pastry business in Kenya, is using a recent transfer of $39 to fix her oven, and Anna, a 51-year-old Ugandan … Continued

Why would a finance firm invest in low-income communities?

February 25th, 2020 / Michelle Celarier, Worth Magazine

The idea of merging social work with the private sector first came to Liz Luckett when, as a high school student, she was spending summers working at Manhattan Borough Hall fielding citizen inquiries about, as she puts it, “anything.” “People would just walk into the municipal building, and say, ‘Hey, I’m not getting my husband’s … Continued

Measures for Justice brings about reform by traveling the country to record criminal justice data

January 28th, 2020 / Jason Tashea, ABA Journal

From left to right: Amy Bach, Gipsy Escobar, Mikaela Rabinowitz, Samantha Silver. Photo illustration by Brenan Sharp/ABA Journal; photos courtesy of Measures for Justice; Shutterstock After finishing law school at Stanford University and clerking at the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Amy Bach spent her time sitting in the back of county courtrooms, … Continued

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