Empowr teaches software development to high school students of color, establishing the school-to-career pipeline. Upon graduation, we work with our partners to help them secure six-figure careers.
Aimée Eubanks Davis is the founder of Braven. She was inspired to start this innovative nonprofit based on her deep passion and belief that our next generation of leaders can emerge from everywhere.
Liberation Journeys partners with educators and students to co-design learning experiences and school culture initiatives that center student voice, identity affirmation, and racial justice.
Suma believes community-led technology is required to advance financial independence and quality of life for low-income people, people of color and other frontline communities. Launching in Portland in late 2022 by providing affordable housing residents with low-cost, secure and easy to use access to clean mobility services, our proprietary, multi-sided, web-based suma platform grows to offer affordable food, transportation and utility goods and services to frontline community members in Portland and other cities.
Lele Art Lab is leveraging the power of art to unify and inspire young learners to care for the planet. We host pop-up art programs and run an outdoor art lab. We turn beaches into classrooms and marine debris into art. We use ART as a language of exploration and put the A in STEM education. We are the first South Florida art program to run a pop-up art lab using a special push-powered vehicle.
Poder Capital is a fintech company focused on creating affordable financial products for Latinx small business owners (SMBOs). Our 1st product is a 50K – 500K loan that leverages social underwriting (i.e. borrowers will raise the 1st 5-10% of the loan from their community) to validate credit worthiness & risk. This approach tackles a major barrier – traditional underwriting.
Alicia has sunsetted Abloom and is establishing a new venture, Selah, at the intersection of wellness, tech and travel
Movement Genius is a radically inclusive digital wellness studio providing movement classes to support mental and emotional health. Our programs provide stress relief techniques, mindful movement classes, and non-exercise activity thermogenesis to help manage anxiety, stress, poor sleep, and low self-esteem.
BLOC is a professional networking platform for black collegians on the rise. Connecting black collegians in a national bloc through the web and high power programming, BLOC works actively to close the black collegiate employment gap by 2025.
LiftEd is a tablet academic & behavior tracking app for special education teachers & related service professionals, that saves educators time, accelerates student learning outcomes, and provides increased transparency to schools and parents.
Phoenix International is a nonprofit that manages innovative public charter schools in rural communities that primarily serve students of color. Our first school site is in Southern Maryland, Phoenix International School of the Arts (PISOTA). Learn more at pisota.org.
Creative Reaction Lab is training Black and Latinx youth to design healthy and racially equitable communities. To create systems-wide change, we’re taking two approaches: 1) pioneering an equity-centered form of creative problem solving, and 2) creating a collaborative youth-led, community-centered movement challenging racial inequities in the education, media, health, and government sectors.
DivySci is an AI communication analytics tool. We provide leaders feedback on how to improve their communication tactics to align with increasing collaboration, inclusive perspective-taking, and removing cognitive biases.
Our mission is to help at-risk youth recover from trauma. Our vision is to change the paradigm of mental health services by making evidence-based support accessible to all kids. By reducing the impact of trauma, we will improve graduation rates among youth who use our service. We will help break the school-to-prison pipeline by reducing the number of incarcerated youth. Our long-term goal is to help build resilient cities where all youth are connected to the services that they need to succeed.
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