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Cisco Foundation Commits $100 Million for Climate Projects and Technology
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The Cisco Foundation money will help nonprofits that use technology to promote community carbon reduction, climate resilience, green jobs, and education and activism on climate change.
Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:
Cisco Foundation
$100 million over 10 years to make grants and impact investments to nonprofit groups that are using technology to combat climate change and promote community education, carbon reduction, climate resilience, green jobs, and activism.
American Express
$40 million to the Accion Opportunity Fund, a nonprofit community-development financial institution, to offer loans and other resources to small-business owners in the United States, with a focus on Black entrepreneurs.
Former McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson and wife Elizabeth launched The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education to support diversity in teaching, and economic mobility in the Black community. On April 28, they’ll dole out $1 million to each of five organizations achieving those goals nationwide, in an online event headlined by luminaries including Common and Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
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Before former McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson and wife Elizabeth launched their vision of supporting food and beverage entrepreneurs through their successful venture capital firm, they’d dreamed of helping youth access the education that had propelled a couple from Cabrini-Green to the pinnacles of success.
Subject: The Edge: Students Need Emergency Aid. Peers, Advocates, and Entrepreneurs Are Getting Creative to Deliver It.
I’m Goldie Blumenstyk, a senior writer at
The Chronicle covering innovation in and around academe. Here’s what I’m thinking about this week.
Food insecurity has soared nationwide. Student-hunger activists are adapting to the need.
Ever since I learned about Swipe Out Hunger, an organization that helps students donate meal-plan credits to classmates in need, I’ve been intrigued by its model, built on altruism and activism and some level of cooperation from colleges’ dining services.
In the last year, rates of hunger around the country have skyrocketed: Last month