This OZY Genius Helps Poor Students Get Haircuts for Less
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March15, 2021
Every year, OZY gives 10 college students the opportunity to pursue their outstanding ideas and envisioned innovations with grants of up to $10,000. The OZY Genius Awards aim to support and celebrate the next Albert Einstein or Oprah Winfrey as they write groundbreaking books, film thought-provoking documentaries, launch tomorrow’s industry-disrupting companies or create the next game-changing social movement. Applications for the 2021 OZY Genius Awards are now open learn more and apply today.
Michael DeVore isn’t your traditional entrepreneur, but he has always been an ideas man who carries a notebook everywhere he goes. While he was in college, one of those big ideas he wrote down won him an OZY Genius Award in 2017. The genius idea? Envisioning a world in which broke college kids would never again have to go to a
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Live Chair Health and Triple2 Digital Bringing Diagnostic Health Services to Barbershops and Hair Salons
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Secure and compliant platform connects users to physicians and healthcare providers in a convenient and trusting environment NEW YORK (PRWEB) February 25, 2021
Triple2 Digital (T2D), a full-service digital agency specializing in building and deploying software, hardware and providing managed services, has recently completed development of the platform powering Live Chair Health, a patient engagement company focused on improving health and wellness for African Americans. T2D was selected by Live Chair to develop and manage a HIPAA compliant platform, including both the front-facing user experience and interface as well as back-end dashboards for managing data and incentive programs.
Folx Health raises $25 million for virtual clinical offerings and care for the LGBTQIA+ community
Folx Health is leveraging the explosion of virtual care services to offer greater access to healthcare focused on the needs of the LGBTQIA+ community, and has raised $25 million in new funding to help it grow.
It’s part of a revolution in care that’s targeting the needs of specific communities with access to physicians that understand those needs. And it’s all made possible by virtual interactions.
“We have a good sense of the nature of the need and the depth of the pain in the community,” said A.G. Breitenstein, the founder and chief executive of Folx Health. “As a non-binary lesbian and healthcare industry veteran, I have seen and experienced firsthand just how broken the current system is for the queer and trans community.”
Barbershops in Black communities provide information on COVID-19 © Courtesy Nile Style Barbershop A teenage client of Nile Style Barbershop in Baltimore, Maryland gets his temperature checked before he enters the store. Live Chair Health is equipping its affiliated barbershops with thermometers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. A teenage boy with electric-blue glasses reached toward the handle of the barbershop entrance, trying to grab the door before it closed. Before he could catch it, shop manager Kennard Perry swung the door open again with his left hand, extending a thermometer out with his right. In the age of COVID-19, it s become commonplace for Perry at Nile Style Barbershop in Baltimore to start every hair cut appointment with a temperature safety check, reminding clients to wear a mask and social distance.
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