Organizations in San Mateo County, California were allocated $7.5 million in federal grants to improve elementary literacy levels.
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation is one of seven recipients in the U.S. of the Social Innovation Fund grant. The community foundation, along with The Big Lift, hope the dedicated efforts to evaluating data and best practices will help improve reading and writing in elementary schools and provide a model for other communities in the state and across the U.S.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.