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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Global Fund For Children. The Boston Foundation. They work with colleges, universities, and other organizations that embrace equity in higher learning, with a focus on historically underserved populations, including nontraditional and incarcerated students. . Global Fund For Children. Funding Priority: Education.

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American Airlines will resume booking flights to capacity, as COVID-19 cases soar

The Verge

The Boston Globe reports that American’s CEO Doug Parker has expressed similar concerns. Although more testing explains part of the increase, the percentage of positive tests is also trending upwards, according to data from John Hopkins University. “I

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KaiPod Learning thinks ‘learning pods’ are here to stay

TechCrunch

The term, somewhat synonymous with micro-schools, pandemic pods and small-group learning, describes small clusters of children within the same age range who are paired with a private instructor with the goal of replacing, or supplementing, school learning. Tired of ‘Zoom University’? So is edtech. A WeWork for education?

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New venture fund aims to become the ‘investment and innovation arm’ of the autism community

TechCrunch

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) impacts 1 in 54 children and millions of families around the world, according to the CDC. “We John Slattery and Marie Causey founded Boston area startup BioROSA , which is developing a biomarker that aims to detect ASD in children as young as 18 months, in 2018. The need is there.

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US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh will discuss the changing face of work at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022

TechCrunch

A lifelong champion of equity and fairness, and a proud product of the City of Boston, Secretary Walsh leads the U.S. Prior to his appointment, Walsh served as the mayor of Boston from 2014 to 2021, where he led the creation of close to 140,000 jobs and helped secure a statewide $15/hour minimum wage, paid sick leave and paid parental leave.

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Workforce development for the nonprofit tech professionals of the future: It will be a consortium, not a building with a dome!

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Examples include Economic Mobility Pathways (EMPath) , Shriver Job Corps , International Institute of New England , JFYnet , Jobs For the Future , National Fund for Workforce Solutions, SkillWorks , Boston PIC , YearUp , and Massachusetts Department of Labor and Workforce Development. And that’s just UMass-Boston!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. When he was 22, Craig launched a company to help partially sighted children.