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Iâve never considered myself a huge fan of Michael R. Bloomberg â quite an unenviable position for someone trying to enter a dying media market. His political career always struck me as less than ideal, his troubling past statements as, well, extremely troubling. Heâs hardly the kind of person Iâd envision as the ideal Harvard donor, let alone the main funder of an entire, extremely influential University program.
So when the former New York City mayor and graduate of Harvard Business School decided to expand his philanthropic commitment to our school last month, I knew the donation was worth inspecting. The donation in question? A massive $150 million to create the Harvard Bloomberg Center for Cities program, building on the work of the year-long Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative that offers leadership training for ma
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The city is examining ways to reduce dispatch demand on police, fire, and ambulance services. One city councillor says the examination is a sham.
According to a public service report tabled at the cityâs Protection Committee on Wednesday, there were 336,631 calls to the cityâs 911 call centre in 2019. Of these calls, 47% were non-urgent, meaning they didnât represent an immediate threat to life, limb, property, or personal security.
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In 2019, the city was chosen to participate in the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, which gathered different levels of government to discuss ways of lowering dispatch demand on emergency services.
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founder Michael R. Bloomberg writes: Many people have remarked that they d like to forget that 2020 ever happened. But the fact is, there s never been a year more important to remember and learn from. We faced four historic crises in 2020: a new global health crisis, an accelerating climate crisis, an American political crisis four years in the making, and a long-simmering crisis of racial injustice that finally reached a breaking point. The end of the year did not end any of the crises…The calendar will not save us. We have to do it ourselves, and that has been the focus of our work at Bloomberg Philanthropies… The battle against COVID-19 has highlighted valuable lessons that we can apply to other major challenges facing our world… and here are five of the most important:
Bloomberg Funds New Center for Cities at Harvard
The $150-million endowment will expand the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative and develop capacity-building programs for mayors and city leaders. March 10, 2021, 6am PST | Diana Ionescu |
Harvard University will establish a new Bloomberg Center for Cities thanks to a $150-million gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies, reports Michael T. Nietzel for Forbes. The new center will focus on building the capabilities of mayors and other city leaders by providing extensive professional training and sharing best practices in municipal management. Its goals include expanding the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative through a new program for recently elected mayors, supporting research on city governance, funding City Hall fellowships for graduate students, and endowing ten new faculty positions.