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Michael R. Bloomberg is an entrepreneur and three-term Mayor of New York City whose innovations in government and philanthropy have made him a global leader on climate change, public health, education, and other critical issues facing America and the world.

Bloomberg was elected mayor just weeks after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and, under his leadership, New York City rebounded faster and stronger than expected. After leaving City Hall, he resumed leadership of Bloomberg L.P., the information technology start-up he launched in 1981 that revolutionized the investment industry and leveled the playing field for smaller firms.

Throughout his career, he has been strongly committed to giving back through Bloomberg Philanthropies, which employs a unique, data-driven approach to its core focus areas: the Arts, Education, the Environment, Public Health, Government Innovation, and the Greenwood Initiative, which aims to accelerate the pace of wealth accumulation in Black communities and address systemic underinvestment in them.

Bloomberg Philanthropies

Bloomberg Philanthropies encompasses all of Mike Bloomberg’s giving, working to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people around the world.

Bloomberg Philanthropies invests in 700 cities and 150 countries around the world, and in 2023 distributed 3billion.MikeBloomberghassofardonated3 billion. Mike Bloomberg has so far donated 3billion.MikeBloomberghassofardonated17.4 billion to a wide variety of causes and organizations.

Kids in Quito, Ecuador, enjoy healthier food in school cafeterias through the Partnership for Healthy Cities. Credit: Juan Carlos Bayas

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