Michael Bloomberg
American businessman and politician
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| March 2025 | Time Magazine awarded Bloomberg the Earth Award for his environmental work, recognizing his contributions including closing 300 coal-fired power plants, reducing New York's emissions by 20%, and donating over $1 billion to climate causes. |
| January 2025 | Bloomberg was awarded the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award. |
| 2024 | Bloomberg donated $600 million to the four Historically Black Medical Schools to support their significantly underfunded endowments, with an additional $5 million to help Xavier University establish a new medical school. |
| 2024 | Bloomberg announced a $1 billion gift to Johns Hopkins University to make medical school tuition free for students from families making under $300,000 a year, starting in the fall of 2024. |
| 2024 | Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden. |
| October 2024 | Contributed $50 million to support Kamala Harris's election campaign and $19 million to a pro-Biden super PAC. |
| January 2024 | Bloomberg joined a group led by David Rubenstein in a $1.725 billion deal to purchase the Baltimore Orioles. |
| 2023 | Recognized as America's highest giving philanthropist, donating $3 billion in that year. |
| 2023 | Steps down as CEO of Bloomberg L.P. |
| October 19 2023 | Following the Hamas attack on Israel, Bloomberg committed to matching donations to the Israeli Red Cross (Magen David Adom), ultimately matching $25 million in donations to the ambulance and Medivac service. |
| September 2023 | Opened the Perelman Performing Arts Center with $130 million of Bloomberg's support, serving as the center's chair. The $500 million art center is the final major piece of the World Trade Center site redevelopment. |
| September 2023 | Bloomberg committed another $500 million to Beyond Carbon to 'finish the job on coal'. |
| 2022 | Bloomberg was awarded the Asia Game Changer Award. |
| September 2022 | Bloomberg launched Beyond Petrochemicals, an $85 million campaign aimed at blocking the construction of 120 proposed petrochemical projects in Louisiana, Texas, and the Ohio River Valley. |
| June 2022 | Began serving as chair of the Defense Innovation Board, an independent advisory board to the U.S. Department of Defense. |
| March 2021 | Bloomberg gave Harvard $150 million to establish the Bloomberg Center for Cities to support mayors. |
| February 5 2021 | Bloomberg was re-appointed by UN Secretary General António Guterres as his Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions in the lead-up to the climate conference in Scotland. |
| 2020 | Bloomberg defended the Muslim surveillance program he oversaw as mayor, arguing it was part of a broader counterterrorism effort to keep New York City safe. |
| 2020 | Wrote an op-ed in The New York Times supporting policies to reduce economic inequality. |
| 2020 | Bloomberg runs in the Democratic Party presidential primaries and subsequently endorses Joe Biden as the party's nominee after dropping out of the race. |
| 2020 | Bloomberg proposed banning flavored electronic cigarettes, raising cigarette taxes, reducing nicotine levels, and requiring health insurance coverage for smoking cessation if he became president. |
| 2020 | Published an op-ed supporting policies to reduce economic inequality. |
| 2020 | Bloomberg spoke at the Democratic National Convention, criticizing President Trump's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic management. |
| 2020 | Led New York's contact tracing effort to help control the spread of COVID-19. |
| 2020 | Convened a bipartisan gathering of mayors through a partnership with Harvard College to discuss and learn about pandemic responses. |
| 2020 | Bloomberg donated $100 million to America's four Historically Black Medical Schools (Meharry Medical College, Howard University College of Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science) through the Greenwood Initiative to reduce student debt. |
| 2020 | Invested $115 million in Joe Biden's campaign in key states and raised over $16 million to clear court fines for nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions. |
| 2020 | Partnered with Johns Hopkins University to train COVID-19 contact tracers and search for virus treatments through the university's public health school. |
| 2020 | Launched an information and action sharing network for cities through the National League of Cities during the pandemic. |
| 2020 | Donated $6 million to World Central Kitchen to provide meals to healthcare workers in New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| 2020 | Supported international COVID-19 response efforts through partnerships with the International Rescue Committee, World Health Organization, and Vital Strategies to combat virus spread and prepare regional leaders. |
| 2020 | Bloomberg co-founded a $75 million fund to support nonprofits in New York City impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| July 2020 | Bloomberg Philanthropies supported the Fresh Air Fund's 'Open Spaces in the City' initiative, creating socially-distant play areas for children during the COVID-19 pandemic and providing jobs for local teens. |
| March 2020 | Ends presidential campaign after winning only 61 delegates, having self-funded $935 million - the most expensive U.S. presidential primary campaign. |
| March 4 2020 | Bloomberg suspended his presidential campaign after a disappointing Super Tuesday, having won only American Samoa. |
| March 1 2020 | During a 60 Minutes interview, Bloomberg stated his intent to remove President Trump from the White House, emphasizing his campaign spending as an 'investment in this country'. |
| February 2020 | An audio recording from Bloomberg's 2015 Aspen Institute speech surfaced, reigniting controversy over his defense of the stop and frisk policy. |
| January 2020 | Supported sanctions on Chinese officials for human rights violations in Hong Kong and Xinjiang. |
| 2019 | Co-launched America's Pledge with former California Governor Jerry Brown, a coalition of cities, businesses, and states aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. |
| 2019 | Wrote an op-ed in The New York Times supporting a ban on flavored e-cigarettes. |
| 2019 | Launched 'Beyond Carbon' initiative with the Sierra Club to complete the USA's transition to non-fossil energy sources. |
| 2019 | Bloomberg resigned as CEO of Bloomberg L.P. to run for president. |
| 2019 | Donated more than $1 billion through Bloomberg Philanthropies. |
| 2019 | Released a second edition of his autobiography 'Bloomberg by Bloomberg' in preparation for his presidential run. |
| 2019 | Wrote an op-ed supporting a ban on flavored e-cigarettes. |
| December 2019 | Bloomberg changed his stance and came out in favor of marijuana decriminalization, supporting states' rights to legalize marijuana without federal intervention. |
| November 2019 | Apologized for previously supporting the stop-and-frisk policy. |
| November 2019 | Officially launches campaign for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. |
| November 24 2019 | Bloomberg officially launched his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. |
| November 17 2019 | Bloomberg publicly renounced his previous support for stop-and-frisk and issued an apology while speaking at Brooklyn's Christian Cultural Center. |
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