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Patrick J. McGovern Foundation awards $5.7 million to support vulnerable communities as pandemic surges
December 17, 2020 GMT
BOSTON, Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation announced today $5.7 million in grants to support vulnerable communities through the pandemic and to bring trusted COVID-19 data and analysis to policymakers and the public.
The 21 grants are the latest of the Foundation’s COVID-19 response and community support commitments in 2020, totaling $14.7 million since March. More than $3.7 million will address the mounting crises of hunger, homelessness, and under-employment and unemployment across the United States, and $1.15 million will support ongoing social justice efforts for refugees, migrants, gender equality, and formerly gang involved and previously incarcerated individuals.
IMS Global Learning Consortium and 1EdTech Foundation Lead the Wellspring Project to Accelerate the Education-to-Employment Ecosystem
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With Funding from the Charles Koch Foundation and Walmart, Wellspring Connects Institutions and Industry Using Digital Credentials to Advance Individual Opportunity and Talent Acquisition.
Wellspring is a collaborative multi-year project to bridge academic credentials and workplace needs. LAKE MARY, Fla. (PRWEB) December 10, 2020
IMS Global Learning Consortium, the leading non-profit edtech innovation collaboration, and its affiliate charitable organization, the 1EdTech Foundation, announced progress on a multi-phase project bringing together educators and employers to meet the demands of a skills-based global economy.
The Wellspring Project aims to create a scalable and sustainable talent ecosystem through standards-based, interoperable technology, and verifiable di