The Joyce Millennium Initiatives are intended to mark this intergenerational transition, by reinforcing and strengthening landmark principles, as well as catalyzing and encouraging exceptional new efforts. Such a market has long been touted as a strategy that would rely on the private marketplace, rather than regulation, as the most efficient means to bring down emissions of carbon dioxide, believed to be a principal cause of global warming and other climate changes. This project will begin to test the premise in real-life trading conditions. More broadly, the project is intended to help redress the ongoing underrepresentation of women in math and science leadership.
Few principles are more basic to our notions of freedom and human rights than school integration.
Thirdly, climate change is a product of the Industrial Age, but society continues to irresponsibly place the resolution of the problem at the feet of the next generation. Joyce program areas are Education, Employment, Environment, Gun Violence Prevention, Money and Politics, and Culture. The Joyce Foundation was created in 1948 by Beatrice Joyce Kean of Chicago. The Joyce family wealth was based on lumber and sawmill interests, and was left to the Foundation when Mrs. Kean died in 1972. Paula DiPerna became the Foundation's sixth president in July 1999.