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Mali Rising Foundation Works to Empower Youth Through Education

Entrepreneurs' Organization

The Mali Rising Foundation was formed in 2004 to provide accessible, quality education for children, focusing on middle school education. The work Mali Rising accomplishes is EO Global Board member Fred Johnson’s passion. We asked Fred to share his experience in helping to increase literacy rates and access to education in Mali.

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Sounding Board raises cash as startups wake up to executive coaching

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Christine Tao and Lori Mazan , the brains behind Sounding Board , want to train any leader within an organization to be a better leader. Revenue has doubled or tripled every year since 2016, which the company says hovers in the “multi-millions” range. Quarterly bookings have increased 3.4 Tao admits that the startup isn’t for everyone.

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4 Action steps to teach kids financial literacy

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Play games involving money: Money-themed board games including Monopoly or Life are engaging, memorable introductions into understanding how money works. Unfortunately, most children grow up without any financial education whatsoever, whether at home or at school. Susan is a board member of EO’s New Jersey chapter.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

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Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to. Driven by his desire to inspire progress, Suhail started planning the FALAK Unreasonable Thinking Summit (UTS) in 2016. Explains Suhail, “The UTS promotes ongoing learning by being an educational event. Promoting Disruption.

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New capital fuels Purely Elizabeth’s next natural food phase

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She recalls going to her first trade show in 2010 and having to educate retailers on ingredients like chia seeds, coconut sugar and coconut oil. Today, these ingredients are readily available on grocery shelves thanks in part to consumers being more educated on better-for-you foods and demanding they taste good also.

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Local Motors, the startup behind the Olli autonomous shuttle, has shut down

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The first generation of the shuttle debuted in 2016 in National Harbor, Maryland at a mixed-use development. Former CEO Jay Rogers transitioned to an advisory role on the company’s board. It has been an exciting, challenging, and educational experience working with Olli and all the team at Local Motors.

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Alphabet’s Intrinsic acquires DARPA-backed firm behind open source robotics software

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Headquartered in Mountain View, OSRF — which predates Open Robotics — was founded in 2012 with the mission of supporting “the development, distribution and adoption of open source software for use in robotics research, education and product development.”