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When I first learned about The Matterlab Group, I was stunned that an organization like it existed. I was struck ...
Looking for an opportunity to make change? We're excited to share two social impact job opportunities with our ...
Summer camp isn’t just a place for students to go when school is out, it’s an opportunity to enrich and foster a child’s sense of adventure, imagination, and curiosity. This is why Camp EDMO is offering an opportunity for BIPOC-identifying kids to attend one week of camp in-person for FREE.
Know any high school juniors or seniors who are motivated, curious, and interested in exploring their purpose in life as they look ahead to post-secondary options like college and career?
“Sounds like a great place to work! I wonder why the agency is named Matterlab?” That was my initial thought after my first conversation about the possibility of joining Matterlab. Let’s take it back a little further.
Today is MLK Day, but Friday was his actual birthday — and he would have been 92 years old. Instead, he was assassinated 52 years ago at only 39 years young. It took almost 20 years and countless failed bills to actually pass legislation to make today a federal holiday — the first in recognition of a private citizen, a non-President, a Black person.
Charter schools were always meant to solve community challenges: access to learning opportunities, stagnant education models, lack of specialized schools based on student needs. In the two decades since charter schooling first became popularized, have they succeeded?
Those of you still on Outlook and all of us who used it in years past surely remember the “Send/Receive” button...
We’re sometimes asked to explain how we view the difference between equality and equity. In short, equality is about everyone having the same things, and equity is about everyone having what they need - whatever their starting point.
By Briana Mitchell, AF Camp Director, and Makela Elvy, an environmental educator and camp enthusiast — together, the creators of S’more Melanin, a digital destination for resources, historical context, and connectivity for BIPOC in the camp world.
Samantha Tweedy is the Chief Partnership and Impact Officer at Robin Hood Foundation and a board member of ...
Changing the world is more than a mantra—it’s possible.
Nonprofit powerhouse leaders are coming together for a virtual panel discussion designed to catalyze sector-wide ...
By Cary Wright, Chief Public Affairs Officer, Good Reason Houston | Even before the impacts of the global pandemic, our city faced an educational equity crisis of emergency proportions...
By Rea Foster, Executive Director, Teach For America Dallas-Fort Worth | At Teach For America Dallas Fort-Worth, we know that potential is equally distributed among all students. Opportunity, however, is not.
By Jessie Collins | I joined the Matterlab team in February of 2020 (great time to start a big new thing, right?).
Organizations are not unlike people. They are born. They grow. They find and lose their footing. They have ...
Your organizational identity humanizes your work and allows all audiences to connect with who you are in a way ...
We just learned about this, and we’re sharing it with everyone we know!
Language is inherently viral, which is how new phrases enter our lexicon seemingly overnight. It’s true in popular culture (many of us on the team just learned what ‘no cap’ means) and in the socio-political sphere. The term ‘anti-racism’ was not invented in 2020, but its use has gone viral as the way to describe in eleven short characters the work we as individuals and a nation need to do to identify and eliminate racism by changing the systems, structures, policies and practices that protect and promote it.
In the book How the Other Half Learns by education writer Robert Pondiscio, he begins a chapter focused on charter ...
(Hint: Priority is not a plural word.)
At Matterlab — both as a company and as individuals — we oppose and renounce all forms of racism in America. We ...
If we take precautions seriously, we can slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect our most vulnerable family and ...
Just as the COVID-19 global pandemic resulted in school closures, event cancellations, and mandated ...
For quite a while now, we’ve been a classic case of the cobbler’s son who has no shoes.
For about a year after ...
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When I first learned about The Matterlab Group, I was stunned that an organization like it existed. I was struck ...
Looking for an opportunity to make change? We're excited to share two social impact job opportunities with our ...
Summer camp isn’t just a place for students to go when school is out, it’s an opportunity to enrich and foster a child’s sense of adventure, imagination, and curiosity. This is why Camp EDMO is offering an opportunity for BIPOC-identifying kids to attend one week of camp in-person for FREE.
Know any high school juniors or seniors who are motivated, curious, and interested in exploring their purpose in life as they look ahead to post-secondary options like college and career?
“Sounds like a great place to work! I wonder why the agency is named Matterlab?” That was my initial thought after my first conversation about the possibility of joining Matterlab. Let’s take it back a little further.
Today is MLK Day, but Friday was his actual birthday — and he would have been 92 years old. Instead, he was assassinated 52 years ago at only 39 years young. It took almost 20 years and countless failed bills to actually pass legislation to make today a federal holiday — the first in recognition of a private citizen, a non-President, a Black person.
Charter schools were always meant to solve community challenges: access to learning opportunities, stagnant education models, lack of specialized schools based on student needs. In the two decades since charter schooling first became popularized, have they succeeded?
Those of you still on Outlook and all of us who used it in years past surely remember the “Send/Receive” button...
We’re sometimes asked to explain how we view the difference between equality and equity. In short, equality is about everyone having the same things, and equity is about everyone having what they need - whatever their starting point.
By Briana Mitchell, AF Camp Director, and Makela Elvy, an environmental educator and camp enthusiast — together, the creators of S’more Melanin, a digital destination for resources, historical context, and connectivity for BIPOC in the camp world.
Samantha Tweedy is the Chief Partnership and Impact Officer at Robin Hood Foundation and a board member of ...
Changing the world is more than a mantra—it’s possible.
Nonprofit powerhouse leaders are coming together for a virtual panel discussion designed to catalyze sector-wide ...
By Cary Wright, Chief Public Affairs Officer, Good Reason Houston | Even before the impacts of the global pandemic, our city faced an educational equity crisis of emergency proportions...
By Rea Foster, Executive Director, Teach For America Dallas-Fort Worth | At Teach For America Dallas Fort-Worth, we know that potential is equally distributed among all students. Opportunity, however, is not.
By Jessie Collins | I joined the Matterlab team in February of 2020 (great time to start a big new thing, right?).
Organizations are not unlike people. They are born. They grow. They find and lose their footing. They have ...
Your organizational identity humanizes your work and allows all audiences to connect with who you are in a way ...
We just learned about this, and we’re sharing it with everyone we know!
Language is inherently viral, which is how new phrases enter our lexicon seemingly overnight. It’s true in popular culture (many of us on the team just learned what ‘no cap’ means) and in the socio-political sphere. The term ‘anti-racism’ was not invented in 2020, but its use has gone viral as the way to describe in eleven short characters the work we as individuals and a nation need to do to identify and eliminate racism by changing the systems, structures, policies and practices that protect and promote it.
In the book How the Other Half Learns by education writer Robert Pondiscio, he begins a chapter focused on charter ...
(Hint: Priority is not a plural word.)
At Matterlab — both as a company and as individuals — we oppose and renounce all forms of racism in America. We ...
If we take precautions seriously, we can slow the spread of COVID-19 and protect our most vulnerable family and ...
Just as the COVID-19 global pandemic resulted in school closures, event cancellations, and mandated ...
For quite a while now, we’ve been a classic case of the cobbler’s son who has no shoes.
For about a year after ...