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Clarios Foundation Pledges $20 Million to Unicef to Improve Environmental Health for Children

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

SEYLLOU, AFP, Getty Images Since 2013, smallholders in Senegal have been learning farming practices adapted to climate changes. billion Gates Foundation grant will expand such climate-related help across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

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What Michael Bloomberg's Plan to Transfer His Company to Charity Could Mean for Philanthropy

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Maria Di Mento Alastair Grant, PA Wire, AP Michael Bloomberg has given extensively to education and to nonprofits focused on arts and culture, the environmental, public health, and improving city governments around the world.

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The Jackson Water Crisis, the Complexity of Environmental Racism

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Jacob Wackerhausen on istock.com The ongoing water crisis in Jackson, MS, is about the lack of access to clean water and the way a community’s health and wellbeing are impacted when this vital resource is unavailable, but there are other crucial factors at play.

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James Irvine Foundation Commits $186.5 Million to Continue Its Fair-Work Program

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Prest Samanta Helou CLEANWash Mobile, a worker-owned cooperative, is prioritizing job safety, fair wage and hour laws, environmental protection, and community health initiatives for the hand-carwash industry in Los Angeles.

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“Forever Chemicals” Are Endangering Our Collective Health

NonProfit Quarterly

According to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences , “PFAS are a group of nearly 15,000 synthetic chemicals.” Olson, senior strategic director of health and food for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), there are three main factors that contribute to the dangers PFAS poses. According to Erik D.

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Common Good Achieves B Corp Certification

NonProfit PRO

Health and happiness advertising agency Common Good has been granted B Corp status—a private certification of for-profit companies of social and environmental performance—by nonprofit B Lab.

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Putting Health at the Center of Climate Change

Stanford Social Innovation Review

These communities lack access to health care , struggle with food insecurity and water scarcity , and generally have difficulty meeting basic needs. And given Moderna’s pledge to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2030, the company will also likely design the facility in an environmentally sustainable way. Supply Chains.

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