News
The latest news about the Bernard van Leer Foundation, our partners and the issues we work on.
Urban95 partnership launches in Boa Vista, Brazil
Teresa Surita, the mayor of Boa Vista, has publicly launched our Urban95 partnership in the city. You can read more about the event in the media outlets Globo and Roraima… Read more
ISSA publishes new study on urban spaces to support parents
“Comparative Global Study of Urban Spaces to Support Parents” is a new report by the International Step by Step Association (ISSA), commissioned and funded by BvLF to inform our Urban95… Read more
Job vacancy: BvLF is recruiting a Representative for Brazil (closed)
The Bernard van Leer Foundation is recruiting a Representative for Brazil who serves as the Foundation’s primary point of contact in the country for partnership development and advocacy by consistently expanding… Read more
Journalists: apply for three-day course on children and the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Amman, Jordan
Are you a journalist interested in learning more about the consequences of the refugee crisis for young children’s brain development, emotional and cognitive growth, academic potential, and economic trajectory, as… Read more
CityLab kicks off series of articles on raising families in the city
Over the coming year BvLF is funding the Atlantic Group’s CityLab, one of the world’s leading media outlets covering urban issues, to produce an in-depth series of 10 articles under… Read more
Urban95 in Lima wins first place in CAF contest
BvLF’s new Urban95 investment in Lima has won first place out of 238 entrants from 14 countries in the fifth edition of the International Urban Development and Social Inclusion Contest… Read more
Journalists: apply for New Delhi programme covering women’s and children’s health issues
Funding is available for 25-30 journalists from around the world to combine participating in the programme – which runs from 11 to 14 December in New Delhi – with attending… Read more
Presentations and resources from Dart journalism course now online
Are you interested in how the media covers issues related to early childhood? All the recordings and resources from the four-day Global Reporting Institute at Columbia Journalism School in June… Read more
New research on the lasting effects of early childhood inequality in Israel
The Taub Center for Social Policy Studies has published a literature review discussing the various ways in which economic inequality experienced in early childhood may lead to inequality in achievement… Read more
Quartz publishes a series of articles on early childhood
“Economists have joined the neuroscientists, arguing—with data—that investing in early childhood is the most cost-effective way to affect long-term outcomes like education and employment.” In the first long-form piece for online… Read more