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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

Our seventh cohort includes 15 Fellows from around the country : Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. Over the next year, these fellows will be learning, sharing, designing, implementing, and challenging themselves to become digital inclusion experts who can and will transform their communities.

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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

Amira Learning is helping young students improve their reading literacy with an AI-powered tutor, while CodeSignal has built a platform for tech workers to pick up new technical skills and practice soft skills through AI-powered simulations. years of improvement in their reading abilities over the course of one school year.

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The big question on every startup’s mind for 2021

TechCrunch

Alex Wilhelm broke down the Utah-based unicorn’s numbers , noting that it’s the second time Qualtrics has filed. While Acorns and Stash have similar offerings, EarlyBird is bringing a fresh UX play to financial literacy, freedom and education. Now, months later, there’s a new S-1 filing, and more to color in.

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Natural Cycles wants to create wearable birth control

The Verge

“Temperature is not the king of indicators for fertility awareness,” says Rebecca Simmons, a researcher and fertility awareness specialist at the University of Utah. That has some drawbacks: it removes the app another step further from the body literacy that underlies fertility awareness methods.

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Why Kansas City Has a Shot at Bridging the Digital Divide

Tech Soup

Google plans to roll it out in Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries' Google Fiber is roughly 100 times faster than ordinary broadband, but costs about the same or somewhat less. The Community Driven Fund. Image: City of Kansas City.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We are Rape Crisis and Victim Services, Employment (80% placement rate for women and men), Adult Literacy, general counseling for women and families, legal clinic…and on and on. Women’s Center of Tarrant County , Susan Fine. We are NOT a shelter.

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Symantec Gives Back

Tech Soup

In Lindon, Utah, 50 employee volunteers planted trees that Symantec donated to TreeUtah using its local Community Outreach funds. The trees were planted around parking lots owned by the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in order to cool the parking lots (which become mini "heat islands.

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