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4 ways to ensure Latin America’s growing pot of capital drives long-term growth

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Sebastián Vidal is the chief innovation officer at Puerto Rico Science, Technology and Research Trust and former executive director at parallel18. According to the Inter-American Development Bank, over the next 10 years, digitized public services alone could stimulate 5.7 Barriers to taking companies public need to be lowered.

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Student social good startups collect $95K in T-Mobile competition

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STEM for the South Bronx (Bronx, New York) A high school robotics team with a vision to create an education center that is open to the public to explore the world of STEM. Scholars Program (Fairfax, Virginia) An organization whose goal is to expand STEM education and STEM opportunities for minority groups underrepresented in the field. .

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

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How might we bridge the gap between the private and public sectors? Melvin (Mel) hails from Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. Rachel Machen has worked in the public service world for over 8 years, pursuing her passion of ensuring children and families have adequate resources and support to promote optimal outcomes. Food Insecurity.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

In Puerto Rico and Chile, there are museums made out of posters so that kids in parks can come and visit real art—well, it’s not real art, but you’re getting access to Picasso for $5. He loves publicity. So I think the facilitation of that makes for a new museum. He’s invested in social service as an economic driver.

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What’s Stripe’s deal?

TechCrunch

The news, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal, came as a surprise considering the rather dry public market activity in the tech world. “In contrast to public fintech stocks, which have suffered -65% to -80% drops over the last 12 to 18 months (PayPal, Square, Ayden), a private raise at $60 billion would be a big win.