One day, all students will have the opportunity to earn a college degree that provides them with meaningful economic and personal prospects.
Location: United States, California, Oakland
Employees: 11-50
Phone: +1 866-699-7070
Founded date: 2009
Investors 1
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| 13.09.2023 | Here are the six AI nonprofits Salesforce is backing | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Salesforce is going all in on AI – not just for its customers but also to solve some of the wor... |
| 16.12.2020 | These 8 Social Entrepreneurs Used Tech To Meet The Challenges Of 2020 | Fast Forward |
| 13.05.2020 | Beyond 12 Pairs Mentors With Tech ‘Nudges’ to Help Students Succeed | Alexandra Bernadotte knows a lot about getting over obstacles. As founder of the Oakland, Calif.-based nonprofit Beyond 12, Bernadotte has devoted the past decade of her life to providing historically under-represented students the academic... |
| 29.09.2017 | Can Technology-Augmented Academic Advising Improve College Graduation Rates? | According to a 2016 report by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, only 40 percent of students finish their bachelor’s degree within four years, and only 60 percent graduate from the college they began at within six years of startin... |
| 30.06.2017 | Google.org, BlackRock and others commit $2.2 million to Fast Forward’s nonprofit tech accelerator | As impact investing gains traction in the market, a new accelerator for tech nonprofits called Fast Forward has raised $2.2 million in philanthropic funding from the nonprofit arms of some of the world’s largest companies and financial serv... |
| 05.09.2016 | The Folly of Big Ideas | What is the most cost-effective way to reduce energy consumption? A 2010 McKinsey report explored big, sexy ideas including programmable thermostats, electric motors and a complex process called retrocommissioning. Yet one might be surprise... |
| 26.02.2016 | Google.org Awards $3 Million To Racial Justice Organizations In SF Bay Area | David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, Alphabet; Bryan Stevenson, Founder and CEO, Equal Justice Initiative; Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade, Founder, Roses in Concrete Community School; Landon Dickey*, Special Assistant for ... |
| 13.08.2014 | Robin Hood $5 Million College Success Challenge Announces Semi-Finalists | This morning, the New York City-based Robin Hood Foundation announced 18 semi-finalists for its $5 million "College Success" prize. The prize invited applications proposing “an innovative, scalable and technology-enabled tool to i... |
| 23.05.2014 | What Google’s Favorite Bay Area Nonprofits Would Do With A $500K Grant | Yesterday, Google announced its finalists for the Bay Area Impact Challenge, its latest effort to assist nonprofits in the region through grants and support from Googlers willing to volunteer their time. The company is letting anyone vote f... |
| 21.05.2014 | Google To Announce Finalists For Bay Area Impact Challenge | Tomorrow, Google will announce the 10 finalists for its Bay Area Impact Challenge, its latest effort to give back to communities in Silicon Valley and the greater Bay Area. For the next 10 days, anyone can visit the website to vote for thei... |
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