2023 Digital Equity Spark Grants Webinar
The 2023 Digital Equity Spark Grants funding cycle is now open from February 27th to March 13th for organizations doing work in California. In this...
Pet Groomer Training Thrives with MIPP Program,100 Students Enrolled in 2022
"Our goal with MIPP is for our students to ultimately be successful and find long-term, rewarding and lucrative careers working with animals....
The Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative is Leading the Way with the Housing Industry’s Best
"We formed this initiative to try to address the issue of 'how do we get more pet owners into rental housing?'. A lot of people find themselves in...
The Better Neighbor Project Helped Over 2,000 Southern California Families in 2022
“In 2023 our goal is to reach more communities than ever before. We will continue our signature pet wellness events in hopes of expanding to areas...
California’s Best Practices for Students Transitioning From Prison to Campus
Presented by the Smart Justice Think Tank Incarcerated students are faced with what seem to be endless barriers as they seek to continue...
California and the FCC Unite to Eliminate Digital Discrimination
On November 16, 2022, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) joined the Michelson 20MM Foundation to discuss how we can eliminate digital...
Leap Venture Studio Cohort 6 Demo Day
The Leap Venture Studio & Academy is the first startup-centric program built to springboard innovation in the growing pet ecosystem. This year,...
How the Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property Makes IP Education Accessible to All
The Michelson Institute for Intellectual Property (Michelson IP) is a non-profit initiative that provides access to IP education to support budding...
Milken Institute Future of Health Summit: The Future of the mRNA Revolution
Michelson Philanthropies' Chief Scientific Officer Thomas Conlon joins the 2022 Milken Institute Future of Health Summit alongside a panel of...
Dr. Michelson: To Be a Successful Inventor, Deconstruct the Status Quo
The DaVinci Hour's Episode 32 podcast with Dr. Maxwell Cooper features Dr. Gary Michelson discussing his physician-inventor career, funding...
Connecting California: Solving the Digital Divide
Michelson 20MM’s latest installment in the Connecting California series explored opportunities created by this historic investment as part of its...
Michelson Philanthropies SciTalks: Progress in Vaccine Development
At the Keystone Symposia 2022 SciTalks conference: Progress in Vaccine Development for Infectious Diseases, Michelson Philanthropies celebrated this...
Student Voices Matter: A Roundtable Discussion With Pregnant and Parenting Students
Nearly 4 million student parents across the country courageously work to attain their postsecondary degrees; in fact, 20% of all undergraduate...
Tribal Broadband Bootcamp: Fostering Digital Sovereignty in Tribal Communities
The Michelson 20MM Foundation is proud to launch the Digital Equity in Tribal Communities Project, a new multi-year effort to address digital...
Why the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Matters: A Breakdown and an Update
Recently, a historic investment was made to ensure that every American has access to reliable, high-speed internet. The Infrastructure Investment...
Dr. Nicholas Wu Takes on Lifelong Quest to Understand How the Immune System Responds to the Flu
Dr. Nicholas Wu’s research has the potential to shift the paradigm of antibody discovery and characterization. Dr. Wu attempts to interpret the...
Dr. Rong Ma Views Personalized Cancer Research and Rock Climbing as Puzzles She Needs to Solve
Dr. Rong Ma’s research provides a pathway for using the mechanical forces involved in the human immune system to identify and predict immune...
Dr. Camila Consiglio Explores Differences Between the Sexes to Develop More Targeted Vaccines
Dr. Camila Consiglio offers a novel approach to understanding differences in human immune responses between sexes by studying a unique cohort of...
Immunology Prize Recipient Dr. Paul Bastard Studies Why People Die from COVID
Dr. Paul Bastard of the Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Institut Imagine, INSERM & University of Paris, and The Rockefeller...
Immunology Award Finalist Dr. Lisa Wagar Deciphers Immune Responses to Viruses and Vaccines
Dr. Lisa Wagar's research deciphers the immune responses to viruses and vaccines using human tonsil organoids. Dr. Wagar received a BSc from the...