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A |     NEW YORK -- Bloomberg Philanthropies unveiled a $50 million initiative Wednesday to help cities address global issues, including climate change, by launching programs proven effective in other cities around the world.The Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange will give city governments grants for startup costs and technical support, as well as sponsor trips and webinars to inform leaders about new programs.“Cities are a force for change on all of the big challenges we’re facing, and we’ve long worked to spread the best ideas globally,” Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, said in a statement. “This new Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange will intensify and expand those efforts, bringing new muscle and rigor to the replication process.”The new initiative, announced at the Bloomberg CityLab conference in Washington on Wednesday, formalizes a process that CityLab has used for years. As former mayor of New York City, Bloomberg knows the importance of seeking out ideas that other cities have already proven, said James Anderson, who leads Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Government Innovation Program.“He understood the unique opportunity that city leaders have to drive progress locally, but also contribute to driving around global issues like climate change,” Anderson told The Associated Press in an interview. “We looked around and we understood very quickly that many city halls did not have the capacity they needed to find solutions and to implement them locally, to make them more ambitious and move their cities and the world forward.”They decided that philanthropy could play an important role in helping cities launch innovative programs and then unlock further funding from governments or other donors, Anderson said.The Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange builds on the success of programs like an environmental initiative in Lincoln, Nebraska, that turns wood waste into a charcoal-like material called biochar that reduces the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere.In 2022, the city received a $400,000 grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to launch the program and it has already made a difference in the city, said Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird. The biochar — which the city produces from trees blown down in storms or damaged by the emerald ash borer beetle — traps carbon, conserves water and improves the soil.“We have ambitious climate action goals,” Gaylor Baird said. “And we’re looking for innovative solutions to help us sequester carbon and improve quality of life and also just deal with some of the impacts of changing weather patterns.”Without the Bloomberg Philanthropies grant, Lincoln would not have been able to launch the biochar initiative so quickly, Gaylor Baird said. Or receive a $100,000 grant from the Nebraska Forest Service.Mattias Gustafsson, co-founder of the consulting firm EcoTopic and the project manager of the Stockholm Biochar Initiative, which the Lincoln project is modeled after, said he is “proud and amazed” to see the idea replicated around the world. In the United States, Cincinnati and Minneapolis have also launched biochar projects, along with Helsinki, Darmstadt, Germany, Helsingborg, Sweden, and Sandnes, Norway – all with help from Bloomberg Philanthropies.“Cities are really crucial for fighting climate change because they have a different angle coming in,” Gustafsson said. “Cities are not trying to make a profit. They are trying to do something good for their citizens.”The Bloomberg Cities Idea Exchange is designed to help cities in that effort, Anderson said. Numerous projects, highlighted by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Global Mayors Challenge, have already been replicated by cities around the world.The Providence Talks program in Rhode Island, which helps young children learn by increasing the number of words they hear each day, has been adopted by Birmingham, Alabama. The Visor Urbano program in Guadalajara, Mexico, which allows businesses to receive licenses completely online, has already expanded to 100 other cities in Mexico and will soon launch in other Latin American cities. Anderson said that city officials receive so much real time feedback from their residents that they are always looking for new ideas to help them do their jobs better.“They don’t spend as much time giving speeches and engaging in partisanship because they’re in the business of delivering services that people count on every single day,” he said. “There’s an accountability to residents to bring solutions that make a difference in their lives that are visible and measurable. And the cities understand that sometimes those ideas can come from entrepreneurs at home and other times it’s great to steal those ideas from the city down the street.”____Associated Press coverage of philanthropy and nonprofits receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc. The AP is solely responsible for this content. For all of AP’s philanthropy coverage, visit https://apnews.com/hub/philanthropy.。    盛夏逐梦，青春启航。

B | 为深入助力青年创新创业发展，搭建在校学生社会实践与创业体验的优质平台，近日，青岛市福利彩票中心联合青岛幼儿师范高等专科学校，于青岛福彩青年创业基地（延安三路135号）开展“青春逐梦 ‘彩’创未来——青岛福彩‘青春创业一日体验’”主题活动。10名年满18周岁的学生代表走进福彩，近距离了解福彩文化、体验行业实操、学习创业知识，真切感受公益事业的温暖底色与青年创业的蓬勃活力。

C | 毕业季是职业院校学生走出校园、对接社会、探索就业创业路径的关键节点。本次活动通过沉浸式参观、专业讲解与互动体验，帮助青年学生深入了解福彩公益事业发展与创业服务体系，拓宽创业视野、积累实践经验，引导青年树立正确的择业观、就业观。
活动现场，学生们先后走进青岛福彩党建引领示范厅，系统了解福利彩票发行意义、公益发展理念、青岛福彩发展历程以及公益金归集、使用与落地情况，通过图文、数据与实例，直观、全面地感受福彩的公益价值与社会责任。
在实操体验环节，每位学生亲手参与投注机操作，独立完成彩票打印体验。现场工作人员结合实操场景，细致讲解各类彩票游戏玩法、日常销售服务常识，并重点解读面向青年群体的创业扶持举措。活动同步设置知识问答互动环节，工作人员围绕当日参观、学习、实操内容出题互动，答题正确的学生收获了专属奖品，在轻松氛围中巩固所学、收获体验。

D | “这次一日体验活动内容特别丰富，完全改变了我之前对福彩、创业的看法。

E | ”青岛幼儿师范高等专科学校学生代表接受采访时说道，“以前我不了解福彩，这次才真切感受到它的公益意义，卖彩票不只是一份工作，更是做公益、帮群众的事业。

F | 我之前总觉得创业很难、离我们学生很远，今天详细了解福彩针对年轻人的创业扶持政策和门店运营流程，发现这也是一条适合我们年轻人的创业路子。这次学到不少实实在在的知识，对我帮助特别大。”活动相关负责人对本次体验活动进行总结，并鼓励在场青年学子立足青春、勇于探索、积极创业。她在采访中谈到：“青年是创新创业的生力军，也是公益事业的新生力量。

G | 我们希望通过沉浸式体验活动，让更多在校学生近距离了解福彩公益事业发展、创业服务体系，引导青年树立正确的就业创业观与社会公益观，助力青年学子逐梦启航。”活动现场，工作人员同步收集学生体验反馈，认真倾听青年学子对创业服务、实践活动的真实需求与优化建议，为后续常态化开展青年创业实践活动积累宝贵经验。作为全国首批试点城市，青岛福彩事业自1987年启航以来，已累计销售福利彩票417.87亿元，筹集福彩公益金118.42亿元，为社会公益事业发展注入了蓬勃动力。近年来，山东福彩持续推出“青春创业”帮扶计划，通过“百千万”行动——百日赋能扶持、千个空白区域定向推介、万元级建站费用减免等务实举措，切实降低青年创业门槛。青岛福彩“青年创业实践基地”集就业培训、创业指导、售彩体验、公益服务等多功能于一体，长期为青年群体提供稳定的就业实习、见习岗位和创业帮扶资源。未来，青岛市福利彩票中心将继续深化“公益搭台、市场运作、青年参与”模式，让更多怀揣梦想的青年在创业路上少走弯路、多获支持，在实现个人价值的同时，为社会福利和公益事业发展注入源源不断的青春动能。

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