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Educate, Empower, Support: EO Women Entrepreneurs Are Leading the Way

Entrepreneurs' Organization

WEDO Canada’s mission is to educate, empower and support future women entrepreneurs by granting $1 million in scholarships to deserving female post-secondary students across Canada,” Milena said. As a speaker, I am often brought into rooms with women-owned, early-to-growth stage businesses, and I talk about the power of community.

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Tech, Education, and Making a Difference in South Africa: Meet Justinus Adriaanse

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Nelson Mandela’s 1999 retirement brought these injustices further to the forefront, unveiling the deep-rooted inequalities within South Africa’s education system and society as a whole. Problem-solving with purpose “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

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Taylor’s Typewriter Boom, How Nvidia Handles Failures, and Matt Mullenweg’s Open Source Philanthropy [link blog]

Hunter Walk

Both of these programs are aimed at open source software community contributors. Freedom Grants helps them relocate from areas of the world that are incompatible with OSS community values. Audrey Scholars pays for the education of children with parents/guardians who are OSS contributors. You Can Buy Hemingway’s Typewriter.

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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. We asked Fred to share his experience in helping to increase literacy rates and access to education in Mali. Educated approximately 12,000 children. times the national average.

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How One Entrepreneur Utilizes Visualization To Promote Living Organ Donation

Entrepreneurs' Organization

We provide jobs that help drive the economy, give back to local communities , and create sustainability practices that support climate neutrality to make our world a better place. His efforts culminated in three Living Donor Awareness Games in the major leagues this week with the goal to honor, educate, and inspire.

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Fiveable lands $10M Series A to become ‘the hallways of the educational internet’

TechCrunch

Fiveable began years ago as a free, online learning community for high school students with the focus of helping them pass Advanced Placement (AP) exams. We’re the hallways of the educational internet,” said Fiveable co-founder and CEO Amanda DoAmaral. Its Discord community, launched in 2021, has over 25,000 users. More than 7.3

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4 Benefits of a Branded Podcast and Why Now’s The Time to Launch Yours

Entrepreneurs' Organization

From leaping funnel stages with decision makers to creating mass quantities of compelling content, the branded podcast is following the growth path of the inbound blog toward a table-stakes position in an organization’s GTM strategy. Podcasts have a lot of upside for marketers. We’re still early in the adoption curve.