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# Michelson Center for Public Policy
### We at the **Michelson Center for Public Policy** believe that government is the great lever of change to catalyze sustainable, scalable, and replicable solutions. And so, we leverage our passion and resources to uplift disadvantaged communities by ensuring that important topics of conversation arrive and stay at the forefront of local, state, and national policy.
## Issues We Support
### Education & Equity
A history of systemic and financial barriers has stunted college students' abilities to stay enrolled, graduate, and utilize their degrees to improve their quality of life. Students face obstacles including publishing cartels limiting their ability to access education resources, internet service providers' limitations to broadband access, and the increasing burden on all students - regardless of their history - to be housed and healthy.
The **Michelson Center for Public Policy** will utilize its influence and leverage to work with government agencies and pass legislation to combat this inequities.
### Medical Research
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the critical need to invest in medical research, healthcare, and treatment reforms that encourage scientific collaboration, fuel disruptive thinking, and accelerate the translation of innovative ideas from the laboratory into real vaccines and treatments that can be accessed by patients.
The **Michelson Center for Public Policy** works with policymakers to meet these goals by advocating for policies that expand the National Institutes for Health, support early career researchers, and modernize the Food and Drug Administration.
### Animal Welfare
Animals are a truly voiceless population. They intersect with communities at every sector - companion animals, wildlife, farm animals - and their well-being is largely predicated on the rules, regulations, and norms set forth by humans. It is our responsibility to consider animal welfare and protection at every intersection in our lives.
The **Michelson Center for Public Policy** champions lifesaving efforts, prevention of cruelty, and protection of our animal communities by supporting elected offices who craft lifesaving animal welfare legislation and working with government agencies to enact responsible public policy.
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## News
Education and Equity
Jun 13, 2024
As we honor the dedication and love of father figures this June, it’s critical to spotlight a demographic in urgent need of support: student parents.
AB 2458 would improve college affordability, access, and success for student parents in California.
MCPP urges budget leaders to take action to address the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) unfair practice of deducting release allowance funds for returning citizens.
May 14, 2024
This Partnership Will Provide New Internet Options for Up to 275,000 Households and Small Businesses in East and South Los Angeles.
Apr 29, 2024
Member organizations of the California Alliance for Digital Equity (CADE) gathered in Sacramento last week to advocate for the passage of AB 2239.
Apr 11, 2024
AB 2239 by Assemblymember Mia Bonta would make California the first state in the nation to legally define “digital discrimination”
Apr 3, 2024
AB 2458 by Assemblymember Marc Berman would help the 400,000 student parents in California better access the financial aid they need
Apr 2, 2024
Assembly Bill 1887 will extend the application deadline for state financial aid programs from April 2 to May 2 to help ensure that more California students are able to complete the FAFSA and gain access to the financial resources they need to begin their college educations in earnest.
Mar 28, 2024
Assembly Bill 2458 would improve college affordability, access, and success for student parents in California.
Nov 17, 2023
Welcome to the Fall 2023 edition of our Michelson Center for Public Policy (MCPP) newsletter. Government is the great lever of change to catalyze sustainable, scalable, and replicable solutions.
Medical Research
Jun 13, 2023
We have full confidence in Dr. Bertagnolli and respectfully ask the Senate HELP Committee and members of the Senate to swiftly confirm her as the next director of the NIH.
May 16, 2022
**Gary K. Michelson, M.D.**, issued a statement following the announcement of **Governor Gavin Newsom’s** budget proposal to invest $500 million towards the establishment of the **California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy**.
Jul 30, 2021
Dr. Gary Michelson shares his commentary on why bold, young scientists have the potential to revolutionize scientific research and accelerate the pace of innovation.
Jun 13, 2021
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s single largest funder of medical research, the very fuel that feeds the American engine of medical discovery and the linchpin to our country’s post-COVID economic recovery.
Mar 1, 2021
The Michelson Center for Public Policy joins nearly 400 organizations and institutions across the NIH stakeholder community to recommend an appropriation of $46.1 billion for the NIH in FY 2022, a $3.2 billion increase over the NIH’s program level funding in FY 2021.
Nov 12, 2020
This venture joins other philanthropies, like the partnership between the Blavatnik Family Foundation and the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Pershing Square Foundation, which award prizes to young scientists who have the potential to transform the future of human health.
Animal Welfare
Aug 7, 2024
SB 1233 aims to address the veterinary shortage and reduce pet overpopulation in California, ensuring more timely and accessible spay/neuter services.
Assembly Bill 2012 would require the Department of Public Health to resume collecting specified data, including in-take figures and categories of outcomes such as adoptions and euthanasia, from public animal shelters as part of their annual rabies control activities reporting.
Mar 26, 2024
Last week, individuals and organizations advocating for animals rallied at Los Angeles City Hall and asked our city leaders to do more to fix the overcrowding crisis afflicting our local shelters. As the largest private animal welfare foundation in Los Angeles for the past two decades, we feel compelled to weigh in.
Nov 1, 2023
Michelson Center for Public Policy applauds Governor Gavin Newsom and California State Legislature for enacting legislation to improve the lives of Californians and their pets
May 11, 2023
A Key Component to Addressing California’s Homelessness Crisis is Pet-Inclusive Affordable and Temporary Housing. The following is an opinion piece published in Capitol Weekly and authored by Brett Yates, CEO of Michelson Found Animals.
Dec 21, 2022
**Michelson Found Animals Foundation** lauded the **Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors** for passing a motion to significantly **reduce animal shelter euthanasia**
Dec 9, 2022
Because it helps people and animals, the **FDA Modernization Act 2.0 has received over 200 endorsements**, including 21 biotech companies, 34 medical associations and patient advocacy groups, and 135 animal welfare organizations.
Dec 3, 2021
New legislation will allow more innovative and human-relevant testing platforms to expedite the development of promising drugs, write **Dr. Gary Michelson** and **Dr. Aysha Akhtar**.
Nov 3, 2021
Representatives Adam Schiff (D-CA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Lauren Underwood (D-IL), and Cori Bush (D-MO) cited Michelson Found Animals Foundation’s (MFA) recent Pet-Inclusive Housing Initiative (PIHI) report when introducing a new bill that will allow families to keep their beloved pets in the home by prohibiting vague and sweeping restrictions against dogs based on breed or size.
* ## “It is our responsibility to leave the world a better place than we found it—to make life a little less unfair for those less fortunate.”
  Dr. Gary K. Michelson and Alya Michelson, Co-Chairs
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