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Mayors Challenge Winners
The sixth Mayors Challenge awards 24 municipalities that have proposed and tested the best breakthrough ideas to bolster essential services at scale – including cooling homes, reducing waste, lowering utility costs, expanding transit, increasing jobs, and more.
Leaders Pledge to End Polio
New commitments to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) will accelerate efforts to reach 370 million children each year with polio vaccines while strengthening health systems in affected countries to protect children from preventable diseases.
Bloomberg Philanthropies has been a
steadfast partner in the fight to eradicate polio
for more than a decade, investing $325 million to date.
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cities replicating successful ideas
Environment
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U.S. coal plants retired since 2011
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countries invested in around the world
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