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Foundation awards more than $10 million to drive digital equity and to support relief and recovery for vulnerable communities
Throughout the pandemic, digital connectivity and skills have proven essential for inclusive economic participation and growth. Yet many vulnerable communities face significant challenges in digital access and literacy, including the...
Tech Laureate honoree Blue Sky Analytics innovates with data to solve climate change
In 2018, sister and brother Abhilasha and Kshitij Purwar launched Blue Sky Analytics to help solve climate change by creating a new way of monitoring the climate and environment. “I’ve...
Foundation awards $4.5M including new Accelerator grants to advance data-driven climate solutions
New grants include the 2022 Accelerator Grant Program recipients who will receive technical support and advanced analytics with the Foundation’s data services team BOSTON – The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation...
Foundation announces new grants to accelerate potential of digital health
BOSTON – The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation has awarded more than $5.8 million in new grants for innovative data- and AI-driven approaches that support digital transformation of health systems and...
Meet the 2021 Patrick J. McGovern Tech for Humanity Changemakers
The Computer History Museum, with support from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, has awarded the inaugural Patrick J. McGovern Foundation Tech for Humanity Changemakers Prize to Mercy Nyamewaa Asiedu and...
Reimagining AI: Purpose driven and centered on love for humanity
President Vilas Dhar delivers a keynote address at World Summit AI 2021: “We don’t often use the word love when we talk about the development of AI… but we should.“...
Interview with Grainger College of Engineering's Limitless Magazine
President Vilas Dhar talks to his alma mater, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Grainger College of Engineering, about his vision for empowering nonprofits and change-makers with technology, encouraging technologists and engineers...
Patrick J. McGovern Foundation launches new Rising Leaders for Equity initiative
The new initiative represents a commitment to inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility as a transformation framework for the foundation and the philanthropic sector BOSTON – Ask any philanthropic leader in...