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Register for VISION, the small business innovation symposium

Register for VISION, the small business innovation symposium

This is the 5th Annual Vision Symposium. Vision is the region’s largest and ONLY inclusion innovation conference celebrating, educating, and supporting women, people of color, and immigrant emerging entrepreneurs and existing business owners.

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Announcing the WEPOWER Accelerator!

Announcing the WEPOWER Accelerator!

Apply to the region’s only accelerator for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs of early-stage companies!

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A 30-year plan and the Role of Futurism

A 30-year plan and the Role of Futurism

Charli Cooksey talks about the development of her 30-year plan and the role that futurism plays in her approach to building WEPOWER.

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Photos: Early Childhood Education Dream + Design Kickoff

Photos: Early Childhood Education Dream + Design Kickoff

165 community members, educators, and change makers from throughout the St. Louis region attended to co-create a shared dream to guide the design and implementation of solutions for our region’s youngest.

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63 St. Louisans Join Solution Teams & Design Council to Develop Solutions for Early Childhood Education System

63 St. Louisans Join Solution Teams & Design Council to Develop Solutions for Early Childhood Education System

July kicked off the design phase of the Tomorrow Builders Fellowship. 63 St. Louisans joined the Tomorrow Builders in the 5-month process of designing solutions for our region’s early childhood education system.

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HEC-TV Features Fellows’ Early Childhood Education System Design Process

HEC-TV Features Fellows’ Early Childhood Education System Design Process

How do we reimagine and redesign St. Louis’ early childhood education system to be more equitable? HEC-TV interviewed a number of the Tomorrow Builders to find out how they’re approaching this challenge!

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Tomorrow Builders Launch Design Phase, Call on Parents + Educators to join Solution Teams

Tomorrow Builders Launch Design Phase, Call on Parents + Educators to join Solution Teams

Over the last four months, we’ve researched until our eyes crossed, bonded until our eyes filled with tears of righteous anger, and reimagined early childhood education (ECE) until our eyes shone with the hope of a better tomorrow.

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18 North and West St. Louis City Residents Commit to Advocate for Education Justice

18 North and West St. Louis City Residents Commit to Advocate for Education Justice

The cohorts emerged to pursue policy reform that decreases racial disparity in K-12 education.

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Just Released—More Black than Blue: Politics and Power in the 2019 Black Census

Just Released—More Black than Blue: Politics and Power in the 2019 Black Census

Black Futures Lab just released the results of the largest survey of Black people in the United States since Reconstruction.

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Krysta Grangeno: “Expanding quality access is imperative.”

Krysta Grangeno: “Expanding quality access is imperative.”

Reporters with the Higher Education Channel interviewed a number of the Tomorrow Builders earlier this month to learn more about their efforts to reimagine and redesign our region’s early childhood education system to be more equitable.