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Santa Cruz is the First City to Ban Predictive Policing
California’s Santa Cruz has become the first U.S. city to ban predictive policing, which digital rights experts said could spark similar moves across the country.
Using Sprints in a Nonprofit: Interview with Eric Ressler from Cosmic
This was a great conversation with Cosmic's Founder, Eric Ressler about how Cosmic are rapidly spreading Agile approaches to their nonprofit clients. Eric explains how and why they use Sprints and the huge impact and faster approaches this brought to the nonprofits.
Google for Startups Accelerator: Women Founders
Google for Startups Accelerator for Women Founders is a three-month digital accelerator program for Seed to Series A technology startups based in the U.S. and Canada.
Design Software Unicorn Canva Hits $6 Billion Valuation
Its design software business booming in a work-from-home pandemic environment, Canva has raised new funding that values the startup at $6 billion.
Looking to Hire a Content Marketer/Creator? We Got Your Guy!
This is what happens when you quarantine an unemployed content marketer/creator with all of his studio gear that is looking for a job.
The Future of Education Recordings
The Future of Education webinar on June 17, 2020 was a great success. We learned from educational thought leaders such as tech giants Microsoft and Google their plans for uplifting our schools.
The Billionaire Founder of Netflix is Giving $120 Million to Black Colleges
Netflix founder Reed Hastings is making the single biggest donation, by a couple or an individual, to racial justice in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd, putting $120 million into America’s historically black colleges and universities
The Most Important Skill of the Future is Being ‘Indistractable’
“If you ask me what superpower I’d want, I know the answer: I want to the power to be indistractable.”
How to Create Strategic Partnerships That Lead to Growth & Acquisition Webinar
Geoff Dillon, a seasoned entrepreneur and investor that has been through his fair share of acquisitions in a variety of industry segments discuss the process he uses to determine and create strategic partnerships that can drive sales, increase valuation, and ultimately be leveraged to create “early exits” for a company.
Netflix’s Billionaire Founder is Secretly Building a Luxury Retreat for Teachers in Rural Colorado
His Colorado retreat is the latest in Reed Hastings’s decades-long attempt to figure out how exactly he wants to spend his now-$5 billion of net worth to improve American schools.
The Largest ONEWHEEL Group Ride in the World!!
Onewheel called upon their awesome community to send in a video of themselves riding in their hometowns all across the globe. Over 1,000+ riders from all over the world rode across the frame to create the worlds largest group ride.
Gasoline out of Thin Air: Our Investment With Prometheus Fuels
Imagine you drive to the gas station and pump your car with gas...except, this time, your weekly pit stop won’t affect the environment whatsoever. The new kind of gasoline coursing through your vehicle doesn’t add CO2 to the atmosphere.
SC Tech Exchange in Streaming Recording
Clinic recording of local Filip Iliescu /Santa Cruz Tech Exchange demonstrating what equipment is needed for Performance to host a professional online event.
The Trouble With Hybrid Models for Reopening K-12 Schools
This article is written by Brianna Donaldson. Hybrid models will impact underserved communities. If you are interested in this topic, please join us for The Future of Education on June 17.
Reimagining Education Post Pandemic
As we near our upcoming event The Future of Education, we look at the need to better fund K-12 education, reprioritizing skills and tech to uplift underserved communities.
Levered Learning Earns Prestigious Certification
Levered Learning has earned the Research-Based Design product certification from Digital Promise. The new product certification is intended to serve as a rigorous, reliable signal for consumers,
Local Student Creates Live Map of Black-Owned Businesses
While he has and continues to partake in the protests, Sikand decided to dedicate his nights to build a live map for city dwellers that identifies black-owned businesses in the Boston metro. Voting with your dollar is a way to affect change and Sikand’s map is a powerful tool for your community.
An 8 Week Guided Innovation Sprint - Free to The World
Stanford Rebuild is a global innovation sprint to develop solutions for the wide range of challenges and opportunities we will face as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.
4th Annual Get Hired & UCSC IDEA Hub Pitch Contest
The 4th Annual Get Hired & UCSC IDEA Hub Pitch Contest, one of our biggest events of the year was held via webinar on Wednesday, June 3rd.
Post Pandemic Launch at Cosmic
Cosmic launched a new brand and website, team's going distributed longterm, and deepening their commitment to the social impact sector.

