Tag: Full Circle Fund40
Impact Companies Tag: Full Circle Fund 40
Sort by:
- < Back to All Tags
Company
Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry
The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry is advancing green chemistry through research, teaching and engagement in three interdisciplinary areas of inquiry: New Chemistries, Health and Environment, and Policy and Economy. Green chemistry, alongside carbon-neutral technologies, is increasingly being noted as a cornerstone of environmentally sustainable development and the green economy.
| Professional & technical services |
Company
Beyond 12
Beyond 12 is a national nonprofit organization that was founded in 2009 to increase the number of traditionally underserved students who earn a college degree. By integrating personalized coaching with intelligent technology, Beyond 12 bridges the gap between K-12 and higher education to ensure that all students succeed in college.
| Education |
Company
Black Girls Code
United States of America
Black Girls Code addresses a very serious problem in today s world the lack of females in technology focused roles and industries. From a young age many girls develop a negative connotation or very male oriented association with technology resulting in an extremely low presence of female professionals in the technology sector.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
buildOn
Through after school programs, teens inspire people across neighborhoods, across cities, and across continents to reach and think beyond their realm of possibility. buildOn’s goal is to the increase civic, and academic, engagement of the students involved as well as develop a culture of service in the school and community.
| Education |
Company
Business Council on Climate Change (BC3)
The Business Council on Climate Change (BC3) was founded on the idea that realizing cities\' potential as hubs for climate action depends on engaging organizations from all areas of urban life. The City of San Francisco has a strong history of leadership on climate change. Yet implementing many city-scale climate solutions requires a coalition that goes well beyond government.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
Company
Caliber Schools
Caliber Schools aims to create a network of lab schools that develop new approaches to delivering a rigorous, personalized education in a sustainable and scalable way by serving 4,600 students in Bay Area communities. Caliber Schools plans to open its first K-8 school in 2014 in Richmond, California.
| Education |
Company
Children Now
Children Now is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to giving all children the opportunity to reach their full potential.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation
The Clayton Christensen Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the world through disruptive innovation.
| Education |
Company
Ed100.org
Ed100.org serves an optimistic purpose: to prepare you for an active role in making education work better for students. This blog is a primer. It systematically introduces the major issues and ideas in education reform. It explains competing ideas in plain language. And it connects you with organizations and resources that can take you deeper.
| Education |
Company
EdSource
EdSource is an independent, nonpartisan, not-for-profit organization that strives to advance the common good by developing and widely distributing trustworthy, useful information that clarifies complex K–14 issues and promotes thoughtful decisions about California’s public education system.
| Education |
Company
Educate Our State
Educate Our State is a grassroots, parent-led, statewide campaign uniting the voices of Californians in support of high-quality, K-12 public education and to demand real, systemic change. Educate Our State was founded by seven moms who had children in the California K-12 public education system and were frustrated by the budget crisis schools were facing.
| Education |
Company
Education For Change
Founded in 2005 by experienced educators and entrepreneurs, Education for Change is a Charter School Management Organization, operating public elementary schools designed to offer a high quality education at no cost to parents. Education for Change believes that high quality instruction and its continuous refinement will lead to success for their students.
| Education |
Company
First Place for Youth
First Place for Youth is an innovative and entrepreneurial nonprofit organization whose programs proactively challenge the trends among former foster youth by building self-esteem, self reliance, and forging the skills necessary for successful independent living.
| Other |
Company
Green Cities California
Green Cities California (GCC) is a coalition of fourteen of California’s largest and most environmentally progressive local governments. GCC members are leaders in developing and implementing leading edge sustainability policies and practices. The bar for GCC membership is high, by design.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
Company
Green Schools Initiative
They believe it is essential to protect children’s health – at school and in the world beyond school – and they work to catalyze and support “green” actions by kids, teachers, parents, and policymakers to: eliminate toxics, use resources sustainably, create green spaces and buildings, and serve healthy food, and teach stewardship.
| Other |
Company
GRID Alternatives
GRID Alternatives is a nonprofit organization that brings the benefits of solar technology to communities that would not otherwise have access, providing needed savings for families, preparing workers for jobs in the fast-growing solar industry, and helping clean the environment.
| Energy |
Company
Imagine H2O
Imagine H2O vision is to turn water problems into opportunities. Imagine H2O solves this market failure by defining prize categories which focus attention on market opportunities that can be sustainably funded, providing validation via our expert network to facilitate investment in competition winners, and providing a go-to-market vehicle by incubating winners.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
Company
Impact Carbon
Each day, 3 billion people cook their meals with dirty fuels on unsafe stoves. 1.1 billion people lack access to safe water. Since 2006, Impact Carbon has built programs that have supported the distribution of over 370,000 improved stoves and 3,000 water treatment devices, benefiting more than 3.3 million people to date.
| Energy |
Company
iZone
The iZone Initiative, incubated by Full Circle Fund, cultivates efforts to extend that innovation into education. In concert with schools, businesses and the local community, iZone partnership efforts will prepare California students to thrive in a globally connected, information-rich world.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
Jumpstart
For the past 13 years, it has trained college students and paired them with young children in one-to-one partnerships designed to develop literacy, language and social skills in low-income preschoolers.
| Education |
Company
Khan Academy
All of the resources on the Khan Academy site are available to anyone. It does not matter if you are a student, teacher, home-schooler, principal, adult returning to the classroom after 20 years, or a friendly alien just trying to get a leg up in earthly biology. The Khan Academy’s materials and resources are available completely free of charge.
| Education |
Company
Leadership Public Schools
Leadership Public Schools (“LPS”) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 by Mark Kushner to serve a diverse student body throughout the Bay Area. The LPS network of outstanding public charter high schools are located in Richmond, Oakland, Hayward, and San Jose and serve over 1,500 students. LPS is led by Dr. Louise Bay Waters and supported by a board of directors and advisory board of experienced educators, business people, and community leaders. The schools serve ethnically and economically diverse student bodies and are located in or near low-income urban neighborhoods
| Education |
Company
MESA
A non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization, MESA enables cross-cultural exchange around global practices of sustainable agriculture. The training is a two-way exchange to spur innovation and preserve traditional techniques worldwide and advance a farmer-led grassroots movement to transform the global food system. Training programs focus on ecological production practices, processing, direct marketing, community organizing and education, and organic crop research and breeding.
| Agriculture, forestry & fishing |
Company
MOUSE Squad of California
MOUSE Squad of California is a program of Aspiranet, a nonprofit organization that provides after school, youth development, and community technology programs, as well as children and family services in California. MOUSE Squad of California partners with MOUSE, a national nonprofit that uses the MOUSE youth development model which includes an online collaborative learning platform. MSCA participates in the MOUSE national network of youth technology leaders.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
National Geographic Photo Camp
The National Geographic Society has been inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888. It is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, and the promotion of environmental and historical conservation.
| Other |
Company
New Teacher Center
They are a national non-profit dedicated to improving student learning by accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers and school leaders.
| Education |
Company
Niroga Institute
Niroga is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that brings Transformative Life Skills to students, vulnerable youth, cancer survivors, seniors and people battling addiction. The work of Niroga directly uplifts thousands of people every week in schools, juvenile halls, homeless shelters, cancer hospitals and rehab centers.
| Other |
Company
Oakland Unified School District
Oakland Unified is California\'s most-improved urban school district over the last seven years. The state-appointed leadership of the Oakland Unified School District embarked on a set of initiatives collectively called Expect Success! Essentially a redesign of OUSD, Expect Success! aims to transform schools into communities of learning to build more opportunity, empowerment and expectations of success in the district.
| Education |
Company
Pivot Learning Partners
Pivot Learning Partners works with school districts to develop leaders and redesign systems to build the education organizations of the future. Pivot Learning\'s Partner Districts serve 2 million students in over 70 districts in California and the nation.
| Education |
Company
Project Homeless Connect
Project Homeless Connect (PHC), a national best practice model, originated in San Francisco under Mayor Gavin Newsom in October 2004. Today, PHC is emulated in 200 cities across the United States as well as Canada, Puerto Rico and Australia. Every other month over 1000 community volunteers partner with city government, non-profits and the private sector to provide a one-stop shop of health and human services for homeless San Franciscans. Services include medical, mental health, substance abuse, housing, dental, SSI benefits, legal counseling, eyeglasses, California ID, food, voicemail, employment counseling and job placement, wheelchair repair and more. As of December 2012, 45,524 volunteers provided services to 67,605 homeless and low-income San Franciscans.
| Other |
Company
Reach Institute for School Leadership
According to The Reach Institute for School Leadership, teacher attrition has grown by 50% over a period of 15 years. To counteract this trend, Reach launched Teaching Pathway. This program aimed to attract aspiring educators to high-poverty schools, train them rigorously to impact student achievement, and certify them to stay in the same high-poverty school or community as exceptionally effective first-year teachers. Reach Institute has been approved for expansion by the California Teachers Credentialing Board. This means they will be an accredited University Program and be eligible to accept federal grant money.
| Education |
Company
Rising Sun Energy Center
Rising Sun Energy Center is an industry leader in residential efficiency services and workforce development. They serve Bay Area residents with no-cost green home assessments and efficiency measures that help to combat climate change and save money on their utility bills through energy efficiency, water conservation and education about sustainable practices. Simultaneously, their programs provide green career training and employment to local youth and adults with barriers to employment.
| Financial & Insurance activites |
Company
Roots Of Success
Roots of Success is a multi-disciplinary curriculum that uses innovative learning approaches to increase people\'s understanding of environmental issues and the green economy while simultaneously strengthening their academic and labor market skills.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
San Francisco Green Film Festival
SFGFF presents an annual film festival each spring, along with year-round community screenings and events in the San Francisco Bay Area.
| Other |
Company
San Francisco Tech Connect
Increasingly, access to the Internet is a necessity for doing schoolwork, finding and keeping a job, communicating, even reading the news. As the City of San Francisco moves toward building an affordable municipal wireless network, it is critical that this new infrastructure serve all of the city’s diverse communities. However, without appropriate training, local content and tools, many San Francisco residents will be unable to realize the full socio-economic benefits of the city’s planned universal wireless network.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
SIRUM
United States of America
SIRUM is an innovative nonprofit organization committed to reducing barriers to health for underserved populations. Incubated at Stanford University, SIRUM draws from the academic and technology expertise of faculty and alumni to strengthen its impact and efficiency.
| Media, Technology, Digital Access |
Company
Spot.Us
Spot.Us is a nonprofit platform for “community powered reporting”. It’s a marketplace where independent reporters, community members and news organizations can come together and collaborate.
| Other |
Company
TechSoup Refurbished Computer Initiative
TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing nonprofits, charities, and public libraries with technology that empowers them to serve their communities. They provide technology donations and information that address the unique challenges nonprofits and public libraries face. Free learning resources — including articles, blogs, webinars, and forums led by expert hosts — are available to all TechSoup users.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
The Stride Center
The Stride Center is a non profit social venture working to empower economic self-sufficiency for individuals and communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are harnessing the power of technology and the digital economy to help men, women and families on the road to self-sufficiency and independence.
| Information, communication & technology |
Company
WY5
WY5 leads to greater motivation and successful academic and life outcomes. WY5 is designed as a “goal-oriented” social networking system to that allows kids to “Build a team, find a dream and make it real.”
| Education |