Originally, Bill and Melinda Gates had hoped to do more than encourage giving by the wealthy. They envisioned the Giving Pledge as a way to promote effective philanthropy that would help solve the world’s big problems — a mission not unlike that of the foundation that bears their names and reflects their values. The Gateses and Warren … Continued
Signature Theatre will commemorate the millionth subsidized ticket offered under the Signature Ticket Initiative: A Generation of Access with a special celebration on Wednesday, May 22nd at 6:30pm in The Pershing Square Signature Center Lobby. The event celebrating this milestone will include remarks from Signature’s leaders and artists, a drawing to win a Lifetime Subscription to Signature … Continued
Two Harvard Medical School researchers have been named recipients of the prestigious Canada Gairdner Awards for transformational work in the fields of biomedicine and global health. Vikram Patel, The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health in the Blavatnik Institute at HMS and professor at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, will receive the … Continued
Combined, investing $350,000 to inform immigrant New Yorkers about latest federal immigration policy shifts and how City’s here to help City expects to reach over 5,000 New Yorkers at forums across the five boroughs by Summer 2019, particularly immigrant and domestic workers MANHATTAN—Today, Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Bitta Mostofi joined City agency and community partners—including Lutheran … Continued
The Charles Bronfman Prize announced its 2018 recipient: Amy Bach, Founder, Executive Director and President of Measures for Justice, the first organization to publicly measure how the entire criminal justice system is performing in all counties across the United States by collecting, analyzing and comparing county-level data. “Amy’s work revealed a critical gap in our … Continued
Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and Fit4D have received a major grant award from the Pershing Square Immigrant Opportunity Fund at Robin Hood. This grant will provide both organizations with the opportunity to offer personalized coaching to diabetes patients in managing this disease. Bronx-Lebanon’s Department of Family Medicine will be spearheading the initiative. Diabetes is a chronic … Continued
When David Callahan, Inside Philanthropy’s founder, was unable to attend the Pershing Square Foundation’s recent 10th-anniversary gala, he conscripted me to go in his stead. He told me the foundation, started by the hedge funder Bill Ackman and his wife Karen, is one of the more interesting new funders to emerge from the finance world … Continued
… Commitments have risen and fallen with his funds’ performance, but the foundation has pledged a total of about $400 million since inception and generated plenty of success stories that were shared at the group’s 10th anniversary celebration. Frederick Wiseman thanked Ackman for supporting his documentaries like the one on the New York Public Library … Continued
Governments around the world have increasingly turned to behavioral science to help address various policy problems – new research shows that some of the best-known strategies derived from behavioral science, commonly referred to as ‘nudges,’ may be extremely cost effective. The new study, which examined the cost-effectiveness of nudges and typical intervention strategies like financial … Continued
President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget isn’t kind to science funding, but Bill Ackman is. One day after Congress received the administration’s request to cut almost $6 billion from the National Institutes of Health, the hedge fund manager and his philanthropic team awarded six scientists $200,000 a year each, for up to three years. The fourth … Continued