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HYPE chosen as Dream Warriors Foundation 2020 COMMUNITY IMPACT Spark Grant Winner
This year, thanks in part to your community support, the Dream Warriors Foundation was able to award over $30,000 in grants to 20 Atlanta womxn in the areas of community impact, art, personal crisis, and Big Idea. Throughout the summer, we’ll be highlighting some of our grantees, introducing you to the truly inspiring, impactful work…
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HYPE One of Five Atlanta Changemakers to receive Civic Impact Loan Fund Award
ATLANTA — October 21, 2020 — Five Atlanta civic-minded social ventures including Learning in Color, The LIFE School, HYPE, Small Bites Adventure Club, and Elevating Equity were awarded a total of $265,000 as they seek to scale their businesses and expand their impact in the communities they serve. The 2020 recipients are: Carol Bowman | Learning…
Read MoreHYPE selected into Atlanta’s Women Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI) 2020 Cohort
Atlanta’s Women Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI), a business incubator for early-stage, women-owned businesses, announced the fifteen members of its third cohort at the monthly meeting of Invest Atlanta’s Board of Directors. HYPE’s Founder, Kristina Smith-Newton, is one of the selected founders and the first non-profit organization founder to be initiated into the only municipally-funded program of…
Read MoreKristina Smith’s Hope for Youth Program Tackles Diversity in STEM by Combining Technology, Travel, and Teaching
ATLANTA – March 30, 2018 – PRLog — This week – from April 1st through April 8th — Kristina Smith’s Hope for Youth program will be taking four female students from the greater Atlanta area to Nicaragua on a mission to teach school children coding skills. Hope for Youth (www.gethype.org) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in September 2017 by Smith…
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