Cohort 8 – Fall 2016

ALEX, Anyone’s Learning Experience a marketplace of college courses for career advancement.

Atlantic Impact uses local and global travel to improve outcomes for students attending high poverty schools.

Our Bloc is a professional network that unites black colleges students so that they can collectively rise.

Detroit Food Academy develops Detroit high school students as leaders through entrepreneurship rooted in food.

Detroit Training Center teaches the skills necessary to match students with high paying jobs through customized, hands-on vocational programs of study.

Fletch helps colleges increase utilization of student support services including tutoring, advising, and financial aid.

Flying Classroom is a real Magic School Bus offering expeditions around the globe and making it easy for teachers to engage students with STEM+ learning.

GenFKD prepares students to thrive in the 21st century through on-campus skill development programs.

Grow Detroit’s Young Talent provides Detroit youth with paid summer employment and training opportunities.

HFLI empowers young people to be more innovative and creative in how they think and learn.

Impact Lab provides open source data and analytics to connect action to outcomes for service providers and funders in the social sector.

JOURNi empowers underrepresented and underserved Detroiters through coding and software development instruction.

Overgrad is a web platform for high school students and the people that support them to help students make informed decisions to ensure success as they transition into college and beyond.

Skill Scout transforms how companies and candidates experience each other through video job posts and engaging work sample applications.

WeThrive is an entrepreneurial mentoring program that pairs college students to middle school students in under-resourced communities.