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Business owners—are you ready to access capital, connections, and curriculum to #elevate your company? Start your application in just 3 minutes ➡️ Link in bio! bit.ly/apply2elevate Elevate/Elevar is the only accelerator exclusively for Black and Latinx founders of early-stage companies committed to St. Louis. The application is live today! Together, our region has an opportunity to simultaneously elevate founders and communities to build shared economic power by accelerating differently. Let’s elevate! 💛 ElevateAccelerator.org #accelerator #business #founders #foundersofinstagram #application #healthcare #informationtechnology #construction #motivationalquotes #motivation #stl #stlouis #companies #capital #connection #startup
Let’s claim our power to imagine a world where each and every one of us is free. Rest in power Mike Brown Jr.
1. Prioritize continuous and transparent data collection and analysis 2. Apply a racial equity lens to the work of supporting entrepreneurs 3. Invest in companies founded by Black and Latinx entrepreneurs 4. Advocate 5. Consider entrepreneurship as a path to workforce development 6. Do business with Black and Latinx-owned companies 7. Take a systemic approach to strengthening our startup community . ➡️ Read the full article on EQ: bit.ly/regional-imperatives . ➡️ Start your application today: bit.ly/elevate_app . ➡️ Sign the commitment to community: bit.ly/elevate-commitment . ➡️ Learn more: ElevateAccelerator.org #elevate #accelerator #stlouis #businessquotes #blackwomenlead #leadership #startup #businessleaders #company #latinxfounders #blackfounders #workforce #workforcedevelopment #advocate #transparency #data
165 community members, educators, and change makers from throughout the St. Louis region attended the Tomorrow Builders Early Childhood Education Dream +Design Kickoff. Attendees built off the 1000 dreams of change already collected to develop a collective vision to guide the solution design phase. Tomorrow Builders and @stlchange facilitated a gallery walk through five issue areas—quality, workforce, access & funding, governance & coordination and family well-being. 💛 More photos & information about the follow-up event: bit.ly/kickoff-photos #earlychildhoodeducation #changeagent #teachersofinstagram #education #children #stl #families #stlouis #equity 📸: @justinmikhailsolomon
This crowd’s determination to create equitable systems change is so inspiring! The Tomorrow Builders hosted the first of four Early Childhood Education Solution Team meetings this month, marking the start of the 5-month solution design process. Each team—Quality, Workforce, Funding & Access, Governance & Coordination, and Family Well-being—determines scope, develops strategies and drives action towards change for our region’s youngest. 63 new change makers! Meet the teams & cheer them on: bit.ly/st-dc 💛 Link in bio! #education #educationpolicy #teachersofinstagram #teachers #family #children #solutions #stlouis #changemakers #changeagent #equity 📸: @justinmikhailsolomon
Do you believe every family has a right to live free of poverty? If so, apply to join our Fall 2019 Economic Justice Power-Building Academy today! ➡️ bit.ly/applypba 💛 Residents of North St. Louis City, West St. Louis City, and East St. Louis, IL are eligible. Paid opportunity. Childcare provided. Pictured: Power-Builder Laundrina Dukes-Foster and her children in front of Lincoln Middle School in East St. Louis. 📸: @i.zaiahj
Tomorrow Builders Launch Design Phase, Call on Parents + Educators to join Solution Teams 💛 We are the Tomorrow Builders, a diverse, passionate, and powerful group of parents, educators, activists, academics, school and civic leaders who are tired of the abuse, chaos, racism, and inequity harming kids aged 0-5 in our region. So, we’re doing something about it, and we’re doing it now. Over the last four months, have heard the dreams of over 750 community members (and counting!) across Saint Louis City and County. We’ve researched until our eyes crossed, bonded until our eyes filled with tears of righteous anger, and reimagined early childhood education until our eyes shone with the hope of a better tomorrow. Throughout this process, what’s been clear is the necessity and urgency for collective, equity-centered problem solving. With this top of mind, we invite you to join us! 🕺🏻RSVP to the Kickoff event July 20th: bit.ly/ecekickoff 🙋🏿‍♀️Join a Solution Team: bit.ly/solution-teams 📖Read our full update: bit.ly/tbfupdate P.S. Shout out to @dpndetroit, Aunt Jackie and all of our other wonderful hosts for welcoming us to your cities on our learning trips! #education #earlychildhood #policy #design #community #engagement #leadership #solutions #stlouis #stl #win #parents #educators #teachersofinstagram #newparentslife #teacher #leadershipdevelopment #missouri #children #youth #earlychildhoodeducation
💛 Early Childhood Education Dream + Design Kickoff 💛 What’s your dream for early childhood education in St. Louis? To date, over 750 St. Louis residents have shared their dreams with the Tomorrow Builders—and more dreams continue to flow in! Our next step: Co-create in community a shared dream to guide the design and implementation of solutions. This will kickoff the early childhood education Solution Teams, which Tomorrow Builders welcome you to join. Together, we have the power to build a better tomorrow! 🕙 Saturday, July 20, 10AM-12PM 📍 Innovation Hall, 4220 Duncan Ave ⭐️ Childcare provided; Free & open to the public ➡️ RSVP (link in bio): bit.ly/ecekickoff ▪️Learn more about & sign up for a solution team: bit.ly/solution-teams ▪️Can’t make it? Add your dream here: bit.ly/reimagineece #publicpolicy #education #blackwomenlead #tomorrow #together #solutions #design #collaboration #dream #mondaymotivation #children #educationpolicy #stlouis
Johnnie Day, one of the new Power-Builders, cares for his parents on the block he grew up on in College Hill. “Instead of me being one person on one mission,” he said, “When we work together as a group our voice is heard more.” In his spare time, Day coordinates neighborhood improvement efforts and dreams of opening up a mentoring service for youth in the area. 💛 Read more: bit.ly/stl-pba 📸: @i.zaiahj #stlouis #blackleadership #caregiver #neighborhood #youthmentor #educationpolicy
Johnnie Day, one of the new Power-Builders, cares for his parents on the block he grew up on in College Hill. “Instead of me being one person on one mission,” he said, “When we work together as a group our voice is heard more.” In his spare time, Day coordinates neighborhood improvement efforts and dreams of opening up a mentoring service for youth in the area. 💛 Read more: bit.ly/stl-pba 📸: @i.zaiahj #stlouis #blackleadership #caregiver #neighborhood #youthmentor #educationpolicy
“My goal is to help people realize that this is not how we're supposed to be living,” said Thomasina Clarke, a retired St. Louis Public School theater teacher and one of the new Power-Builders. Clarke lives in The Ville in the house she grew up in. She is driven to keep teaching summer school classes out of a desire to see the light bulb come on in her students’ heads. “If anybody's going to make a change, it's got to be us.” 💛 Join us in celebrating the new Power-Builders: bit.ly/stl-pba 📸: @i.zaiahj
18 North and West St. Louis City Residents Commit to Advocate for Education Justice 💛 On June 8th, residents of West and North St. Louis City arrived at the Deaconess Foundation to start their journey as Power-Builders. The Academy supports community members who commit to long-term organizing towards policy and systems change with the goal of improving outcomes for children in their neighborhoods. This summer St. Louis Public Schools elected board of education will regain governance power. Now more than ever, it is important for our community to build towards a more effective and responsive district. An engaged base of residents strengthens the democratic process and ensures change is built from the ground-up. The Power-Building Academy is a launchpad for community-driven change to push the district towards advancing better policies and solutions. The Academy’s seven-month curriculum facilitates groups of residents through three phases. First, Power-Builders develop organizing skills, an analysis of systemic racism, and an understanding of how the K-12 education system works. Through door knocking in their neighborhoods, Power-Builders engage community to surface major education issues. Second, Power-Builders develop innovative and equitable policy solutions and a campaign strategy to bring about those policy solutions. Third, Power-Builders disrupt current systemic educational inequities by implementing their campaign strategy to achieve tangible policy change. The cohorts include teachers, parents, students, young professionals, and social workers. Each resident applied to the program, sharing why they are personally motivated to improve the city’s K-12 education system. “My goal is to help people realize that this is not how we're supposed to be living,” said Thomasina Clarke, a retired St. Louis Public School theater teacher. Clarke lives in The Ville in the house she grew up in. “If anybody’s going to make a change, it’s got to be us.” 💛 More: bit.ly/stl-pba 📸: @i.zaiahj #publicpolicy #blackwomenlead #stlouis
The Black Census is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction. As a partner organization, WEPOWER mobilized to collect responses in Missouri. This new report from @blackfutureslab shares the results of the survey. ➡️ bit.ly/moreblackthanblue . . . . . #blackvoters #blackwomen #survey #peoplepower #listening #report #publicpolicy #blackwomenlead #census #politics #blackpoliticalpower #votingrights
“In my day-to-day work with families, I see the impact that access to quality early childhood education can have in their lives. If families feel safe leaving their children in a center, their children can learn and get ready to enter kindergarten. They know their name, their letters and their numbers. They’re ready socially and emotionally. But also, I’ve worked with families on individual goals and taught classes that have changed their lives. For instance, I worked with a parent who was homeless when the child was enrolled, and within a couple of years they were able to buy a home. Access to a high quality early childhood education can mean really huge outcomes for families. When the chance to become a Tomorrow Builders fellow came around, I knew it was an opportunity for me to use my voice to create more opportunities for families—beyond the limited number we can serve at one center. Expanding quality access is imperative.” -Krysta Grangeno 💛 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. We're looking forward to seeing what the reporters create! . . . #inspiration #education #interview #mothers #socialwork #family #earlychildhoodeducation #school #stlouis #children #publicpolicy #mothersofinstagram #teachersofinstagram #leadershipdevelopment #video #stories
Jacqueline Person, middle school science teacher & North St. Louis Power-Builder 💛 While teacher appreciation week has just ended, our acts of gratitude should not! WEPOWER wants to celebrate our region's current and former educators and invite them to join us, free of charge, at our Power-Building Academy. To nominate your favorite teacher, visit the link in our bio. We'll send them a celebratory e-card with a note from you. Nominate as many teachers as you'd like! . Link in bio.✨ . bit.ly/fav_teacher . 📸: @i.zaiahj #teachersofinstagram #advocate #changeagent #education #middleschool #teachers #teachersfollowteachers #teachersappreciationweek #stlouis #school #leadership #leaders #leadershipdevelopment #stlouis #stl #appreciationpost #appreciate #blackwomenlead #blackwomen #inspiration #inspire #power
 
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