On October 12, 2019 Hansjörg Wyss was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his business and philanthropic leadership. The ceremony took place on the campus of Harvard University and the inductees heard remarks from Sherrilyn Ifill, President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation is excited to announce a new grant through the Wyss Campaign for Nature to support The Guardian’s new reporting series, The Age of Extinction. Through this series, journalists from The Guardian will produce cutting edge reporting on our planet’s wildlife and wild places, the impacts of nature’s decline on communities and economies, and creative solutions that are helping conserve the planet’s remaining natural systems.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation is excited to continue to support the vital work of Philabundance and all it does to alleviate hunger in the Delaware Valley region.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation is proud to support the ongoing work of the Philadelphia Interfaith Hospitality Network (PIHN), a homelessness prevention, shelter, housing and multi-service center for families in the Philadelphia area.
Read MoreThe Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced today the latest gift of $131 million from its founding entrepreneur and philanthropist, Hansjörg Wyss (Harvard M.B.A. ’65).
Read MoreThe Hansjörg Wyss Wellness Center will be created inside the Bok Building — a former vocational school on the 1900 block of South Ninth street that's been transformed and now hosts a variety of small businesses and art studios. The wellness center project has already attracted a $3.1 million gift from the Wyss Foundation.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation, a charitable organization that supports land conservation in the American West, has selected three Yale students as 2019 Wyss Scholars — Eve Barnett ’20 M.E.M., Julia Sullivan ’20 M.E.M., and Kelly McClure ’21 J.D.
Read MoreHansjörg Wyss is an unconventional environmentalist. He protects large patches of wilderness and advocates carbon taxes as well as electricity generated by nuclear power.
Read MoreHansjörg Wyss has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of Business, Corporate, and Philanthropic Leadership.
Read More“For the past several years we have been a proud participant in the Roger Federer Foundation and are glad to support their early education programs that reach thousands of children affected by poverty”, said Molly McUsic, President of the Wyss Foundation.
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