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Beyond School Walls: Empowering the Potential of Tomorrow's Workforce Through Workplace Mentoring
Today’s release of the Big Brothers Big Sisters 2020 Beyond School Walls Report highlights the organization’s pioneering workplace mentoring program and underscores the importance of innovation to keep kids connected during these unprecedented times.
The Lemelson Foundation Awards Grants to Five Universities to Accelerate Environmentally and Socially Conscious Engineering
The Lemelson Foundation, the world’s leading foundation focused on improving lives through invention, announced the launch of the new Engineering for One Planet (EOP) initiative intended to instill social and environmental principles across all disciplines of engineering education.
FCA Foundation Bridges Digital Divide for Detroit Students
The FCA Foundation, the charitable arm of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, has joined a coalition of Detroit’s leading businesses and philanthropic organizations that is investing $23 million in a program to bridge the digital divide for 51,000 Detroit students.
Connecting Kids to Bright Futures
From the moment Milton Hershey founded a school for orphaned boys in 1909, Hershey has continued our founder’s legacy of helping children succeed and reach their full potential.
Pizza Hut and First Book Launch Collection of Antiracism Resources for Educators
Pizza Hut and First Book today announced the launch of Empowering Educators – a collection of resources developed to provide educators with guidance and actionable steps to create equitable learning environments and navigate conversations about race and racism.
Mohawk Group Provides Carpet to Learning Spaces Through School Crashers Program for Seventh Year
Each year Mohawk Group partners with Georgia United Credit Union Foundation to “crash” deserving schools all over the state. Faculty and administration across Georgia apply for facility makeovers based of specific needs that would enhance their respective curriculum and campus.
Comcast Launches New Internet Essentials Programs as Nation Gears Up for the Academic Year
With distance learning plans rolling out across the country due to the coronavirus, Comcast today announced a new program for cities, schools, and nonprofits to connect large numbers of low-income K-12 students to the Internet at home.
CIT Funds Student Computer Lab With Donation to Musical Arts Institute in Chicago
CIT Group Inc. (CIT) recently announced that it has made a donation to the Musical Arts Institute (MAI) to fund a computer lab that will strengthen the organization’s music instruction in Chicago's underserved areas, a community need identified by a CIT Small Business Solutions customer as part of ...
Inspiring the Next Generation of Scientists in a New Way
Momolue Kiadii, or ‘MJ’, is a rising 11th grader from Raleigh, NC who has been interested in science ever since he can remember, influenced by his mother who is a nurse.
CIT Supports Educational Equality With Donation to NAACP Ventura County Chapter
CIT Group Inc. (CIT) has announced that it has made a donation to the Ventura County Chapter of the NAACP, an organization dedicated to ensuring the educational, social and economic equality of rights of all persons. The donation supports the chapter’s scholarship program to advance educational equa...