Ventures

Celebrate EDU provides individuals with disabilities the skills needed to become entrepreneurs. Celebrate EDU’s new initiative will provide curricula to create group-based microenterprises for youth with learning differences in high school. The goal is to introduce entrepreneurship to students and encourage leadership development through business education.

Cognitive ToyBox develops game-based tools that make early childhood assessment efficient, actionable and equitable. Their mission is to help every child start school ready to succeed. Through the Learning Differences initiative, they are developing new research-based tools to support the assessment of social-emotional and executive functioning skills for 3-to-5 year old children.

Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children works to eliminate the amplified inequities for Black children experiencing unaddressed dyslexia or related learning disabilities. Through collaborative efforts with families and educators, we inform, empower, and raise awareness of the need for early identification and intervention for Black children with dyslexia through sharing knowledge, dismantling systems of bias, and paving pathways to evidence-based reading instruction.

Expert IEP’s goal is to empower caregivers of youth who think and learn differently to participate as valued members of the IEP team. We achieve their goal by leveraging machine learning to elevate caregiver assets, help caregivers advocate for clear and appropriate IEP goals, and monitor service delivery as well as overall student progress. We are the first IEP optimization app for families by families.

IEP&Me is reimagining specialized education for students, families, and educators through a simplified and digestible platform, encouraging collaboration and providing resources that promote self-advocacy and transparency.

Rural Opportunity Institute (ROI) is a community-based social venture studio that builds the capacity of rural communities to support people’s healing from generational trauma to achieve health, safety, connection, and self-determination. ROI’s newest initiative “10x Mental Health Supports for Students” helps schools and community-based organizations to put the systems and structures in place to leverage Medicaid funding so they can increase student access to mental health services. 

SELF’s vision is an educational system where all students are celebrated, treated with dignity, and their strengths are leveraged to empower authentic and individualized learning. Our mission is to empower schools to create welcoming and effective communities that enable all students to achieve their fullest potential. The National Leader Fellowship, established in 2022, will bring together school leaders and special education coordinators in an intensive two-year fellowship consisting of specialized training, coaching, professional learning communities, peer reviews and visits to exemplary special education programs. This cohort of national leaders will collaborate and return to their respective schools and districts with rich and diverse plans of action.

Social Cipher builds social-emotional learning video games that help youth of all neurotypes understand themselves and those around them, and software that helps educators and counselors better understand their students’ social emotional well being.