All Ventures
BELIEVE Schools
Entrepreneur: Kimberly Neal-Brannum
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
BELIEVE Circle City High School is an early college and career preparatory high school that launched in Indianapolis, IN in the Fall of 2020. The school intends to serve approx. 400 students at full enrollment across grades 9-12. BELIEVE will focus on fostering the academic acceleration, autonomy, and agency needed to be a contributing member of our evolving society. BELIEVE strives to create a community of change agents by developing our students’ and staff’s identity, sense of purpose, and social and emotional well-being.
Beloved Community: Equity in Schools
Entrepreneur: Rhonda Broussard
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Beloved Community advocates for and provides capacity-building supports that help communities operationalize and sustain diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) commitments. Key programs include a free, online equity audit, Equity in Schools and Equity at Work cohorts, and deep-dive single institution planning and implementation programming. Beloved Community builds diverse voice in local leadership so that the commitment to regional solutions remains long after any individual charismatic leader, local legislation, or funding stream has gone.
Bernalillo Public Schools: Diverse Educator Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Matthew Montaño and Eric James
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Bernalillo Public Schools seeks to reduce the barriers of entry and increase the long-term retention of Indigenous and Hispanic educators by offering a combination of financial, educational, and instructional support in their Diverse Educator Fellowship.
BetterLesson
Entrepreneur: Alex Grodd
For-profit | Founded: 2008 | Visit the Site
Funds supported BetterLesson’s file sharing and social networking application, helping teachers connect and share lessons, best practices, and ideas within communities of practice.
BirdBrain Technologies
Entrepreneur: Brendan Finch
For-profit | Visit the Site
BirdBrain Technologies was part of the Science Learning Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported BirdBrain’s adaptive science platform that ensures every student in a classroom can read, grow, and learn independently.
Black Educator Advocates Network
Entrepreneur: Jalisa Johnson
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The Black Educators Advocates Network exists to transform the environment, practices, and policies that affect the educational experience for Black educators, administrators, students, and parents. Founded by Black educators who recognized the desperate need for an educational experience that considers and centers around Black students, BEAN is committed to transforming the learning environment for students of color. BEAN centers its efforts around community building, research and discovery, and bold advocacy.
Black Male Educators Alliance of Michigan
Entrepreneur: Curtis Lewis
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
BMEA partners with educational agencies at the local, state and national level to advocate for the support of recruiting black men into education, retaining black male educators, and developing leaders to improve the education of urban youth. BMEA is a group of practitioners invested in the dismantling of institutional impediments to diversity in the educational profession.
Black Teacher Project
Entrepreneur: Micia Mosely
Nonprofit | Founded: 2015 | Visit the Site
The Black Teacher Project (BTP) recruits, develops, and sustains Black teachers for schools in the United States. The organization seeks to create an effective teaching force that reflects the diversity of Black people in this country by recruiting future Black teachers, supporting Black teachers to sustain themselves personally and professionally, and conducting research on Black teacher health and sustainability.
Blendspace
Entrepreneur: Amy Lin, Harrison Gordon, Gabriel Cebrian
For-profit | Founded: 2012 | Visit the Site
Funds supported Blendspace’s solutions to help teachers easily create and deliver lessons that adapt to student needs.
Bostonia Global K-14
Entrepreneur: David Miyashiro, Nerel Winter
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Bostonia Global is a public school that launched in El Cajon, California in Fall 2021. The school intends to serve 1,125 K-8 students and 600 9-14 secondary students at full enrollment. Bostonia Global strives to create an interest-based learning environment where students thrive and grow each and every day. Simply stated, our mission is to foster Happy kids, Engaged in Healthy Relationships, and On a Path to Gainful Employment.
Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity (BranchED)
Entrepreneur: Cassandra Herring
Nonprofit | Founded: 2016 | Visit the Site
BranchED supports minority-serving institutions (MSIs) to maximize the quality of their educator preparation programs (EPPs) by providing training, technical assistance, and coaching support – coupled with peer learning and collaborative problem solving.
Breakthrough Charter School
Entrepreneur: Darren Ramalho
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Breakthrough Charter School is a diverse-by-design, public charter school that launched in Marion, Alabama in Fall 2021. The school intends to serve 350 students at full enrollment across grades PK – 12th. Our core values of Scholarship, Diversity, Leadership, and Community will drive our innovative instructional model, rooted in project-based learning, service learning, and social emotional development. We are excited to be working with local partners, including Marion Military Institute, Main Street Marion, and New Schools For Alabama.
Bricolage Academy Middle School
Entrepreneur: Josh Densen
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Bricolage Academy Middle School is a public charter school in Orleans, LA that will eventually serve 400 students in grades 5-8. Bricolage Academy implements a diverse by design model, that is grounded in diversity, equity and inclusion. With a focus on using methods of innovators (design, iteration and collaboration), Bricolage blends progressive, personalized educational elements with a traditional educational model.
Bridge 2 Hope St. Louis
Entrepreneur: Krystal Barnett
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
Bridge 2 Hope St. Louis is a parent-led organization with a mission to educate, empower and activate parents and grandparents to disrupt the system of inequity, fight unjust policies, and advocate for their children’s right to quality educational options. Bridge 2 Hope St. Louis empowers parents and their children through intentional outreach to the most vulnerable communities with a focus on on building strong communal relationships.
Bridgemakers
Entrepreneur: Walter Cortina
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Bridgemakers is building a national movement of Black, Latino and low-income student changemakers to help drive the purpose-driven dramatic improvement of American public secondary schooling through youth-led public leadership and learning. We advance this vision by building school-based student changing-making and school-connected learning labs.
BrightBytes
Entrepreneur: Rob Mancabelli, Hisham Anwar
For-profit | Founded: 2012 | Visit the Site
Funds supported BrightBytes’ SAAS-based analytics platform to measure the impact of technology use on student achievement by collecting school data and analyzing it within a proprietary framework.
