Raise for Good Announces Fall 2020 Bootcamp Cohort

Raise for Good is excited to introduce our Fall 2020 Bootcamp! Over the next six weeks, we’re partnering with 16 innovative and purpose-driven organizations as they navigate the continued challenges of COVID-19. 

From apps and tools that bridge the digital divide of distance learning, to entrepreneurship and workforce development programs that train and support women from low-income and immigrant communities, the nonprofits in our fall Bootcamp cohort are working to solve critical social problems at a most critical time. 

Our Bootcamp offers organizations high-quality content, coaching, and networking opportunities to help effectively manage, plan, and be well-positioned for long-term sustainability. These nonprofit leaders will work together and with experts to hone their brand and messaging, diversify their fundraising and revenue strategies, and build long-term organizational and financial sustainability.

We can’t wait to work alongside these brilliant leaders and organizations to help accelerate their growth and impact in the communities they serve.

Raise for Good’s Bootcamp cohort includes:

• Upward Scholars helps low-income adults, mostly immigrants, overcome the financial and academic barriers that limit their success. Upward Scholars provides scholarships that cover students' textbooks and transportation to college, laptops, tutors, mentors, and additional support services.
• Substantial Classrooms helps improve the substitute teaching experience for everyone: students, subs, district staff, teachers, principals and parents.
• Saskia Keeley Accompagnateur Workshops are photography-based workshops that bridge divides between cultures, help overcome bias and fear, and foster healing..
• Real Talk is a mobile app that uses authentic stories and trusted resources to help teens know they are not alone in their experiences growing up. Real Talk’s goal is to improve the health and well-being of youth of every identity.
• Project Fleri invests in long-term solutions to poverty, by providing education, safe housing, workforce development, and nutrition to youth in Haiti.
• LitLab gives under-resourced children, their caregivers, and educators the tools to develop early learning pathways toward school readiness and continued academic success by providing interactive blended learning solutions that address key aspects of childhood development.
• Learning Equality is working to bridge the digital divide to enable equitable global access to a quality education. Learning Equality does this through supporting the creation, adaptation, and distribution of open educational resources, and creating supportive tools for innovative pedagogy.
• Kids In Tech addresses the growing STEM skill deficit amongst elementary and middle school kids by partnering with school districts and youth development agencies to provide hands-on learning projects in technology.
• iXbio is an early stage research institute with the mission to develop technology to enable the next generation of biomedical breakthroughs
• Goodie Nation uses the power of social capital to build a pipeline from the next generation of diverse founders and leaders to the resources needed to reach their potential.
• Fonds pour les Femmes Congolaises (The Fund for Congolese Women) supports women’s grassroots organizations, particularly those in remote, hard to access areas of the DRC, through financial and technical assistance. 
• Custom Collaborative is a New York City-based entrepreneurship and workforce development program that trains and supports women from low-income and immigrant communities to launch fashion careers and businesses. 
• City of Dreams seeks to end the generational cycle of poverty in San Francisco’s most challenged neighborhoods through mentorship and youth development.
• CALMA Oficial (Collective Action for Laborers, Migrants, and Asylum Seekers) is a grassroots community based in the Bay Area, that provides support to families and individuals marginalized due to their immigration status both locally and at the US / Mexico border.
• Bridges for Enterprise is a global community of students and professionals, who use their skills and expertise to empower social entrepreneurs, social ventures, and startups. BfE seeks to bridge the gap between career success and social change.
• 2 Seconds Or Less empowers women and children through opportunities in education, agriculture, and employment in rural Zimbabwe.