Nov 23, 2021 | Spark Grants, Student Basic Needs
Emergency Aid Isn’t a Luxury The need to provide emergency student aid to college students has never been more apparent. A recent survey of nearly 900 California college students conducted by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS) highlighted student’s...
Nov 17, 2021 | Open Educational Resources
During the recent Open Education Conference, the Michelson 20MM Foundation and the awardees of our attendance scholarship program had the opportunity to hear from experts from around the world and meet others implementing open educational resources across the...
Nov 16, 2021 | Digital Equity, Spark Grants
Achieving Digital Equity for California’s Students From April 2020 to May 2021, the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC), a Michelson Spark Grantee, studied the impact the COVID-19 pandemic had on digital inequity, particularly among school-age children in...
Nov 11, 2021 | Spark Grants, Student Basic Needs
The Student Basic Needs Crisis Is Affecting Our Most Vulnerable Students The scholars hardest hit by the student basic needs crisis in higher education are those that fall into categories deemed “vulnerable populations”. Black and Indigenous students, students...
Nov 10, 2021 | Entrepreneurship, Investments
By Justin Chapman Michelson Impact Ventures is a social change fund deploying impact investment capital into early-stage, purpose-driven, for-profit startups. Jerry Sullivan, former LA Business Journal editor who now runs his own media outlet called SullivanSays...