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ALEX
ALEX Anyone's Learning Experience is an online marketplace where individuals can advance their careers by taking individual higher education courses across universities and vocational programs. In a world where you can place people in empty seats in cars and empty beds in houses ALEX places people in empty seats in classrooms. ALEX improve access to higher education by allowing employees to take courses one at a time.
| Information, communication & technology |
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Atlantic Impact
United States of America
Atlantic Impact is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that partners with high schools to provide local and global travel opportunities for students. Atlantic Impact organization believes that it is possible to transform educational outcomes through travel and exposure programs. Schools that make educational trips part of their academic offerings produce students with better grades higher graduation rates from high school and college and more positive perceptions of their potential. Unfortunately over 50% of schools have cut back on educational field trips due a lack of funds. Atlantic Impact partners with high schools to close this gap.
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Grow Detroit's Young Talent
United States of America
Grow Detroit s Young Talent (GDYT) is a citywide summer jobs program that employs young adults between the ages of 14 and 24 for 6 weeks in July and August. Youth participants must be permanent residents of the City of Detroit and be eligible to work in the United States. There is a broad range of jobs available to the participants. For example this past summer the jobs included community cleanups event planning accounting and working with the Director of Youth Services for the City of Detroit. Last year 5600 local youth received employment. This year the goal is 8000.