All Ventures
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brightwheel
Entrepreneur: Dave Vasen
For-profit | Visit the Site
Brightweel was part of the Early Learning Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Brightwheel’s all-in-one platform for early education.
Building 21
Entrepreneur: Chip Linehan
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Building 21 is a competency-based high school model that directly operates two sites in Philadelphia and Allentown, PA. Their model includes a set of next-generation graduation requirements: learning organized to create personalized pathways, competency rubrics and roadmap, in and out-of-school experiences, an advisory model, and flexible scheduling.
Building Assets, Reducing Risks
Entrepreneur: Angie Jerabek, Christina Ritter
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
BARR Elementary is a strengths-based and whole-school system approach designed to improve the literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills and attendance rates of children in grades K-5. BARR’s comprehensive approach allows for collaboration and capacity-building based on two pillars: positive intentional relationships and real-time actionable data. BARR Elementary represents a new offering for an organization that has historically served secondary students through a successfully scaled middle and high school models. Their expansion to elementary school is a new initiative for the organization that builds on their secondary model, while expanding the holistic impact of their work.
Cambiar: School Systems Leaders Fellowship
Entrepreneur: Ellen Winn
Nonprofit | Founded: 2012 | Visit the Site
SSLF prepares high-potential education leaders to take on superintendent and cabinet-level roles within three years of completing the fellowship. The fellowship helps participants develop the core skills necessary to become transformational systems leaders through a highly selective and rigorous leadership development program.
Camelback Ventures
Entrepreneur: Aaron Walker
Nonprofit | Founded: 2013 | Visit the Site
Camelback Ventures (CBV) catalyzes gap closing, social ventures led by underrepresented entrepreneurs, particularly people of color. To do this, CBV leads a venture fellowship (Camelback Fellows) that provides coaching, connections and capital to ensure that these ventures are investment-ready.
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy
Nonprofit | Founded: 2000 | Visit the Site
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy educates students in a college preparatory program to be literate, critical thinkers, and independent problem solvers who are agents of social justice with sensitivity toward the world around them. This organization participated in the first cohort of our ‘Transcend+NewSchools Collaborative’ – a multi-faceted nine-month program that guided districts and charter network leaders through a process to reimagine their schools.
Capital Village Schools
Entrepreneur: Monica Green
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Capital Village PCS is a public charter school in Washington, DC that will eventually serve 160 students in grades 5-8. Capital Village is an intentionally small learning community focused on student-centered learning and developing the whole child. Its teachers guide students through interdisciplinary projects that pique their curiosity, fuel their passions and prepare students to be agents of change in their communities.
Capitol Regional Education Council: Teacher Residency Program
Entrepreneur: Dr. Greg Florio
Nonprofit | Founded: 2019 | Visit the Site
The CREC Foundation was established in 2005 to support CREC’s programs, missions and its members. The mission of the CREC Teacher Residency Program is to provide college graduates with an alternate route to elementary certification based on a residency model that focuses on recruiting, preparing, increasing and sustaining minority teachers in elementary schools in the Hartford Region.
Carnegie Learning
Entrepreneur: Barry Malkin
For-profit | Founded: 1999 | Visit the Site
Carnegie Learning was part of the Middle & High School Math Ed Tech Challenge. Funds support Carnegie Learning’s innovative, research-based math curricula.
