HYPE in the News
The Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative launches inaugural campaign to highlight female business leaders in Atlanta
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It’s Her Turn Now ATL: More than 25 Atlanta Entrepreneurs Share Social Media Accounts on Women’s Entrepreneurship Day ATLANTA (Nov. 18, 2020) – The Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI), a program of Invest Atlanta and the City of Atlanta, will launch a social media campaign featuring more than 25 women entrepreneurs called It’s Her Turn Now…
Read More United Way of Greater Atlanta and Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta announce grants for COVID-19 response focused on education, food insecurity, housing and mental health
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ATLANTA – November 19, 2020 – The Greater Atlanta COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund, a joint effort from Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta and United Way of Greater Atlanta, today announces grants supporting education-focused interventions, food insecurity, housing and mental health services. To date, the Fund has raised more than $25 million through collective resources from public and private donors across…
Read More HYPE chosen as Dream Warriors Foundation 2020 COMMUNITY IMPACT Spark Grant Winner
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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…
Read More HYPE One of Five Atlanta Changemakers to receive Civic Impact Loan Fund Award
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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 More HYPE selected into Atlanta’s Women Entrepreneurship Initiative (WEI) 2020 Cohort
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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 More Kristina Smith’s Hope for Youth Program Tackles Diversity in STEM by Combining Technology, Travel, and Teaching
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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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