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What Should an Air Monitoring Grant Leave Behind?
When a foundation funds an air monitoring project, what should remain after the grant ends? A useful local network, certainly. But I believe the investment should also leave open-source tools and practical knowledge that another community can use without starting from scratch.
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Clean Air Has No Vaccine
A vaccine is almost the perfect intervention for evidence-based funding: a defined intervention, a defined recipient, a defined disease and a strong causal relationship. Clean air is almost the opposite. It is environmental, distributed and systemic - but it carries massive health burdens. How can we make funding into clean air more attractive for large evidence based philantrophic organisations?
Clean Air for Kids: How One Mother's Concern Grew Into a Movement for Cleaner Classrooms
Children in England spend close to 190 days a year sitting in a classroom, and almost nobody checks the air they're breathing whilst they're there.
Air Quality Deserves Practical Public Infrastructure
To our community, our partners, and everyone who has ever stepped outside and wondered what they were breathing. Introducing the Open Air Foundation.