Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Déborah, a 2022 YLAI Fellow , is the founder and director of CAPAZ Perú , which develops cultural, educational and social projects for people with disabilities through art programs such as theater and dance. Her fibromyalgia diagnosis after university gave her even more drive to launch CAPAZ in 2018.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MAY 18, 2021

Understand your audience and educate your community. While 2018 YLAI Fellow Janeel Boon spends his time running his business Boon’s Computer Repairs , he is also well-known in his home country of St. Kenishia Mais, a 2018 Fellow, works with her financial coaching organization, ThrivingDollars , to educate young people on budgeting.

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Revolution

JANUARY 7, 2019

2018 was a year filled with plenty of news to remind us of the importance of policy in the world of innovation. In what I’ve called The Third Wave , the Internet will become ubiquitous and transform industries that are part of our everyday life including health care, transportation, education, food, etc.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Driven by a desire to help people from a young age, YLAI 2018 Fellow Janeel Boon aims to empower others to see their leadership ability within themselves. Providing five-minute tips and tricks about what to do and not to do with your computer during these sessions allowed me an easy way to start educating my community as well.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JANUARY 29, 2020

Tamara Isch, a 2018 YLAI Fellow and a co-founder and COO of EcX Labs, has been breaking boundaries in her country, in her field of work, and in the world. By Elise Kemp. The results of this woman’s hard work and innovation are cutting-edge technology solutions to the biggest problems in Ecuador.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

a Suriano, 2018 YLAI Fellow. “It Masshii’s objective is to create opportunities for at-risk women in El Salvador who have little or no opportunity for proper education, training, or jobs. Our partners usually help with opportunities in education and mental health. By Jewelle Saunders. What is the mission of Masshii? .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The popular startup, which lets people build and share educational games, has picked up Drops, a startup that helps people learn languages by way of short picture and word-based games. But it has had some notable accolades, including getting named app of the year by Google in 2018. It did go through an accelerator, GameFounders.)

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Innovators Hernann Zabala Naoumov, 2018 YLAI Fellow, and Antonio Mendoza, 2016 YLAI Fellow, co-founded EnerGea , a social enterprise aimed at increasing energy efficiency and reducing pollution and energy consumption through sustainable technology. Educating against waste management. From there, they founded EnerGea.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 31, 2020

2018 YLAI fellow Kenishia Mais is the founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform empowering young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, create their ideal financial lives, and gain the freedom to pursue more of what they love.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 25, 2020

2018 YLAI Fellow Cinthya Andino is most passionate about design and about protecting the environment. Through years of production and education, the community has begun to reflect sustainable values by creating their own clothes through upcycling old materials. By Angie Garozzo. What’s in the future for Beleaf?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

How a Jamaican financial educator perseveres through adversity. 2018 YLAI Fellow Kenishia Mais, founder of ThrivingDollars , a financial education platform designed to empower young adults with the tools and resources they need to make smarter decisions, faced a lot of adversity on her path to financial success and entrepreneurship.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Angel Flores, a 2018 YLAI Fellow, has made it his life’s mission to improve the lives of people with disabilities. Angel is the founder of Blue Hope ( Azul Esperanza ), an organization that provides educational therapy to children on the autism spectrum. One inspiring YLAI Network member in Nicaragua wholeheartedly shares these goals.

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Source Link

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2018, the state of Nebraska released Blueprint Nebraska, a strategic plan aimed at identifying the state’s core economic development challenges to create pioneering solutions. From inception to implementation, ecosystem building can be a complex process, and it does not happen overnight. Such was the case for SourceLink Nebraska.

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Hunter Walk

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Sandro Roco: I had the idea for Sanzo in 2018. At the same time, 2018 was the summer of LaCroix and other flavored sparkling water brands across a larger $45 billion carbonated soft drink category that has been in decline in the U.S. Here are Five Questions with Sandro. Hunter Walk: Backstory time! Crazy Rich Asians became the No.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 2, 2019

On 25–26 June 2019, EO presented a two-day International Entrepreneurial Summit at the United Nations focused on inspiring, educating and connecting business leaders to promote sustainable business practices. Sustainable Development Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. There’s probably no better example of a founder who tried to elevate their company around a higher purpose than Audrey Gelman of The Wing, a co-working space for women.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 18, 2018

In Australia, some educators may refer to this as a "major." Many Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree programs offer their students the opportunity to choose a concentration, which can also be called a "specialization" or a "track."

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

There’s a large education gap in Vietnam between urban centers, which have access to more resources, and the smaller cities and rural areas where 80% of students live. Tran Duc Hung, who founded the company in 2018 as an English self-learning platform, said Edupia is on track to exceed its $100 million revenue target in the next three years.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

In 2018, women started 1,821 net new businesses every day according to research by American Express, which also showed that black women are starting businesses at the fastest rate of any racial group. Plenty of initiative.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

RBC attributes this low percentage to the financial duress that post-secondary education puts on aspiring entrepreneurs, impeding their ability to start businesses while still in school. . Ranaldi and Szekely won their local GSEA competition and advanced into the Canadian national competition in January 2018.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to. For 2018 we are planning for 300-plus attendees. Explains Suhail, “The UTS promotes ongoing learning by being an educational event. On a broader level, Falak’s strategic corporate responsibility focus is education.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

The InfoTrust Foundation undertakes charitable events quarterly, including its annual Basket Brigade , which is providing nearly 2,000 Thanksgiving baskets in 2018. EO’s FY17/18 Global Chair Brian Brault accepted the 2018 International Bridge Award on behalf of EO at Nuway’s annual Bianu Celebration in Cincinnati. E – for education.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This common inspirational quote reassured 2018 YLAI Fellow Priscilla Ortiz Porras about her innovative veterinary regenerative medicine practice in her community in Costa Rica. I believe it is important for women to pursue education for what they love and have a dream to be a part of,” says Priscilla. By Jewelle Saunders.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Tensions between educators and NYC officials grew over the past few weeks, as school openings were delayed twice and staffing shortages continue. According to the National Center for Education Statistics , a teacher who works in Mississippi makes an average of $45,574 annually, while a teacher in New York makes an average of $82,282 annually.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

StudyFree — which connects students with international educational opportunities via a community-driven B2C SaaS model — has raised a $3 million seed investment round led by I2BF Global Ventures, TMT Investments and Techstars. We estimate the international overseas education market is 15 million students per year.”. million in funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

The unbundling of professional learning and entrepreneurship education. At the same time, the number of early-stage rounds, categorized as deals under $15 million, has fallen fairly consistently since a peak in H1 2018. More posts by this contributor. European, North American edtech startups see funding triple in 2021.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

CoderSchool raised a seed round led by TRIVE Ventures in 2018. CoderSchool will use the funding to accelerate its online teaching platform growth and technology infrastructure expansion for the company’s technical education programs that guarantee employment upon graduation. Vietnam after-school learning startup Marathon raises $1.5M

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2018

In early 2018, EO DC joined forces with the Employer Assistance Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN) and DC Metro Business Leadership Network (DC Metro BLN) to host an event to educate entrepreneurs and small businesses on the value of hiring people with disabilities.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

The company is also launching a massive campaign next week for Black History Month with the goal of closing the wealth gap among Black children and kids of color through financial education. Our focus is on financial education because it’s not enough to teach kids how to spend.” “That’s great.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2018

He earned a nomination for 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year. If you work to educate and train people, for example, perhaps SDG 4, “Quality Education,” is one that naturally fits with your existing priorities. Then use this as a starting point. When I became president, the culture of the EO New York chapter was not great.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 12, 2019

“We brought together the best of all worlds: Conscious customers invested in uplifting the underprivileged, a low-cost and motivated rural workforce, and passionate leaders in urban communities who nurture and grow global opportunities,” Ravi explained in a 2018 interview published on Inc. Learn more today. .

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Attendees at the inaugural MyEO Deal Exchange Conference in 2018. In 2018, Alan Peterson, an EO member in Orange County, California, formed MyEO Deal Exchange (MyEO DX), a resource for connecting EO members who wish to find mutually beneficial deals. How has your participation in EO Accelerator impacted your entrepreneurial journey?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. We are very excited to support Kodland on their journey.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

It brings the company’s total raised to over $28 million since its 2018 inception. EquityBee CEO and co-founder Oren Barzilai says his company’s mission is to help educate startup employees on the meaning of their stock options, as well as provide them with funds to be able to purchase them. “I

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Instead, he rejoined Greylock as an EIR for another year before joining Dropbox shortly after it went public in 2018 as its VP of product and growth, leaving that post back in February to start his own thing, he said on his way out the door. Nash is also riding a very big wave.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Kukua , a Nairobi- and London-based educational entertainment company and the creators of “ Super Sema ,” the first African animated superhero franchise, has raised $6 million in its latest round of investment. Until “Black Panther.” The company raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The money will be used to develop curriculum and expand Yuanfudao’s online educational service, amid a larger boom in remote learning. In 2018 , the company told TechCrunch that a majority of its revenue came from selling live courses. Thus, the shift to digital learning has poured fuel on an already booming education market.

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