October 2026
The field gathers, and the connecting work finds support
Where philanthropic money moved
Toward the work that connects
Two announcements this year support the parts of protection that sit between institutions: a South Asia climate–health desk and research consortium (The Rockefeller Foundation and Wellcome), and the next stage of the Southeast Asia Heat Health Hub, with work in Indonesia and Thailand (Philanthropy Asia Alliance). Both are field-building and evidence roles, the ones our trace of funding found thinnest. Amounts were not disclosed.
An opportunity the evidence supports
Heat-safe work
Six solutions for safer work in the heat have been measured in a study, yet our trace found no funding announcements for them. Much of this work is paid from public budgets and employers, which the trace does not cover, so this is a question worth asking rather than a gap we can confirm.
A question that grew in importance
What keeps a pilot going after its first grant?
A funder’s own account of Southeast Asia notes that successful heat-health pilots often lose their footing once funding ends. We have added it to the learning agenda, sized for a two-year study of a handful of pilots.
What changed on Common Shade
The first month through every check
Nine new records passed all seven checks, including Bangladesh’s first urban heatwave action plan, for Narayanganj, and the first Global Heat Forum in Bangkok. Two were held back: a report of a four-country coalition that established sources describe instead as four country assessments. New this month: the Atlas, the Evidence map, Follow the money, Who holds it up, Build protection, a public corrections log and, from new research on risk finance, Paying when heat strikes, where insurance, pools, credit and forecast funds for heat are each asked whether they paid, and when. Two simulations now sit beside A week in the heat, so care, health and city systems get the same attention as work: A night in the heat and A city under strain, with 25 new short films on older people, pregnancy, babies, clinics, power, water, trees and more.
The Atlas · Corrections · Paying when heat strikes · Live through a heatwave
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