"Black learners should not be made to believe that they must forego economic opportunity to serve their communities."
@mikejff says #HigherEd needs to be doing more to improve career outcomes for Black college graduates. #WkDev#Education#RacialEquity
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It’s not just rural students who lack internet access—40% of Virginia students without access live in or around urban areas, according to a new report. It’s essential that we #ConnectCollegeStudents as fall semester begins. Read more from @InsdeHigherEd: https://t.co/WOOByvBndp
Today @GovernorVA signed legislation transforming Virginia’s early childhood care and education system - building a foundation to expand access to quality early learning. #earlylearning#LaunchpadVA
We are already not structuring the recovery to help minority groups who are more impacted than other groups. - Harin Contractor, Nexight Group #JFFHorizons
Digital literacy requires basic numeracy skills. Without basic numeracy skills, digital literacy adoption wont work - Harin Contractor, Nexight Group #JFFHorizons
We are at a moment when philanthropy needs to step up. Now is the time to use your power. Now is the time to do the right thing. Use your privilege now. - Charles Fields, VP, James Irvine Foundation #JFFHorizons
POC who sit on seats of power and privledge struggle to reconcile their position and the background from which they came from. - Gayatri Agnew, Sr Director, Walmart Foundation #JFFHorizons
We often forget that the rules that make the economy are made by us the people and has not served sizable population even before COVID. - Charles Fields, VP, James Irvine Foundation #JFFHorizons
We at Lumina not only support equity but also we couple equity with justice...to dismantle systems that are part of the inequity - Danette Howard, Lumina Foundation #JFFHorizons
How do we reconcile philanthropy and investment in times like this. That’s the conversation we want to have.- Hilary Pennington, Exec. VP, Ford Foundation #JFFHorizons
Happening Now: Join us for our last day of #JFFHorizons! At 12 p.m. ET, industry leaders will take the main stage to answer the question, "How might we invest in radically new ways?"
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Monitoring claims for fraud by checking IP addresses, bank accounts to which money goes to, among others to prevent fraud. We need to band together to find more ways to prevent fraudsters from coming in, says Scott Sanders, ED, NASWA #JFFHorizons
“Incredibly hopeful these changes persist....people are leaning into conversations more now than before. Hope we hold on to that.“, @andrew_anagnost on changes in company culture #JFFHorizons
Invest in vocational tracks, open up more training tracks, don’t let students get saddled with student debt, give people ability to grow and develop and not just a skill says @AndrewYang on what 18-24 yr olds should do today @johnbattelle#JFFHorizons