Buffalo Trailblazers Issue – Mary Wilson: Continuing the Legacy
With the impending sale of the Buffalo Bills in 2014, most fans were united in anxiety over a single question — would the team be sold to an owner who would relocate the beloved franchise? It was a question that hung in the air for several years preceding the death of Ralph C. Wilson Jr., founding owner of the hometown team, and it intensified upon his passing in March 2014 at age 95. With so much focus on the negative possibilities surrounding the sale of the team, few in Western New York considered the incredible benefits the region could garner from the inevitable sale/
Read the full article at Buffalo News »Ralph Wilson Foundation Launches STEM Initiative in New York, Michigan
The Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation has announced the launch of STEM 2035, an initiative aimed at strengthening the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) pipeline in western New York and southeast Michigan.
Read the full article at Philanthropy News Digest »Tackling STEM gap is next goal of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation
Under-served youths interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and math will be getting assistance through a new program announced Monday by the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation.
STEM 2035 is an initiative that will grant funding and technical assistance to existing after-school and summer programs in western New York and southeast Michigan; regions that the Wilson Foundation is concentrating its impact per the request of Ralph Wilson, the late founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills.
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Under-served youths interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and math will be getting assistance through a new program announced Monday by the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation.
STEM 2035 is an initiative that will grant funding and technical assistance to existing after-school and summer programs in western New York and southeast Michigan; regions that the Wilson Foundation is concentrating its impact per the request of Ralph Wilson, the late founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills.
Read the full article at Democrat & Chronicle »Finding New Ways for Kids to Play is Part of a Winning Strategy
Having room to roam, to dream about the future and to imagine a better world—that is what the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation sees as the reasons for investing in public play spaces in communities that truly need them.
Recently, the organization announced Built to Play, an initiative focusing on children and youth in Western New York and Southeast Michigan—two areas that studies showed were in need of more areas for active play.
Read the full article at Corp! Magazine »Detroit’s Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Partners with MIT for Inclusive Innovation Challenge
The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation in Detroit and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced that the foundation will support the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and its annual Inclusive Innovation Challenge (IIC). The program seeks to identify and promote entrepreneurial organizations in North America that are using technology to improve economic opportunity for low and moderate income earners.
Read the full article at DBusiness »Editorial: Wilson Foundation is working for healthier kids
If children have the opportunity to play, they will take it. That may mean running, jumping, skipping rope or hopping back and forth on lines drawn in chalk.
This was the state of play so many of us grew up with and somehow got lost over the decades.
Yes, video games have become ubiquitous. Few children leave home without some device to watch, play or to use to get lost on social media. Then there are the children who grow up in unsafe places, where going outside to play comes with risks.
Unfortunately, the lack of physical activity is adversely affecting children’s health. Experts talk about the increased incidence of diabetes among young people, and worry about the long-term effects of sedentary lives.
The $5 million being provided by the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation in Western New York will bring positive change. The goal is to build small, innovative play spaces, custom-designed playgrounds and skate parks in Western New York.
Read the full article at Buffalo News »Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Launches $10 Million Play Initiative
The Buffalo-based Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation has announced a $10 million initiative to provide children and youth across western New York State and southeastern Michigan with more opportunities for free play through the creation of public play spaces.
Read the full article at Philanthropy News Digest »Ralph Wilson Foundation to fund skate parks, playgrounds and play spaces in WNY
If you build it they will come.
The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation announced Thursday the creation of a program that will build interactive public play spaces for kids as well as skate parks in western New York and southeast Michigan.
The “Built to Play’’ initiative will be funded by $5 million awards to each region through RCWJRF, a grantmaking organization established by the late founder of the Buffalo Bills.
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Explore & More museum’s Valentine’s Day gift is a box of multimillion dollar chocolates the entire community will enjoy, thanks to the Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation.
The museum will appropriately be named: Explore & More – The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Children’s Museum.
The foundation’s promise to award $6 million to the project if the museum also raises $6 million offers peace of mind to those in charge of this enchanting effort.
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