Bloomberg Philanthropies, the charitable foundation established by multibillionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is offering $45 million to cities willing to test a new model for solving common urban problems, from handgun violence to chronic homelessness.
More than 80 cities are invited to apply for grants to fund specific "innovation delivery teams. The grants will build upon the foundation's recent demonstration projects in Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Louisville and Chicago.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.