StriveTogether Receives Global Award for Social Innovation
January 16, 2024 07:00 ET
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StriveTogether
Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 16, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, StriveTogether received the global Schwab Foundation Social Innovation Award for Collective Social...
StriveTogether Appoints Chief Program Officer
December 06, 2023 10:00 ET
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StriveTogether
Cincinnati, Dec. 06, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Paris Woods, Ed.D., will lead impact acceleration and scale to create better, faster and more equitable outcomes for youth across the StriveTogether...
StriveTogether Receives $175 Million from Ballmer Group to Put Millions More Young People on a Path to Economic Mobility
September 18, 2023 09:00 ET
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StriveTogether
Cincinnati, Sept. 18, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StriveTogether announced today that Ballmer Group is committing $175 million to support StriveTogether’s Vision 2030, designed to put at least 4...
Bridgespan and National 4-H Council Report Points to Philanthropy’s Potential to Fuel Economic Mobility in the Black Rural South
August 24, 2023 10:41 ET
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The Bridgespan Group
Boston, Aug. 24, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Funders with fresh mindsets have a timely opportunity to invest in the Black rural South and help the region access large-scale funding that has the...
Tricolor Wins LendIt Fintech Industry Awards for Excellence in Financial Inclusion
February 09, 2022 08:00 ET
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Tricolor Holdings
DALLAS, Feb. 09, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tricolor today announced it has been named the LendIt Fintech Industry Award winner for Excellence in Financial Inclusion. Tricolor was honored for its use...
Techstars Workforce Development Launches Second Accelerator Program
December 06, 2021 14:00 ET
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Techstars
DENVER, Dec. 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Techstars Workforce Development Accelerator—headquartered in Denver, Colorado—today announced its second class of startups selected to participate in the...
American Institutes for Research Launches $100M+, Five-Year Investment in Behavioral and Social Science Research Addressing Systemic Inequity
September 23, 2021 11:00 ET
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American Institutes for Research
Arlington, Va., Sept. 23, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The American Institutes for Research (AIR) today is announcing the launch of the AIR Equity Initiative, a five-year, $100+ million investment in...
Research Finds More Than 6 Million Black Workers Have the Skills for Higher-Wage Work
June 17, 2021 16:16 ET
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Opportunity@Work
WASHINGTON D.C., June 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research conducted by Opportunity@Work shows that the largest group of Black workers active in the U.S. labor market are STARs — workers who are...
Robin Hood Awards Over $73 Million In Covid-19 Relief; Convenes Leaders to Inform Strategy
March 16, 2021 11:24 ET
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Robin Hood Foundation
NEW YORK, March 16, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today marks one year since Robin Hood, New York City’s largest poverty-fighting organization, reactivated its Robin Hood Relief Fund to address the onset...
Robin Hood’s Early Childhood Poverty Tracker Finds 24% of New Yorkers Ages 0-3 Living in Poverty
November 05, 2019 11:54 ET
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Robin Hood Foundation
New benchmark study from Robin Hood and Columbia focuses on 1,500 families in New York with young children to better understand their circumstances and the impact on later-life outcomes 60% of young...