Organizations in San Mateo County, California were allocated $7.5 million in federal grants to improve elementary literacy levels.
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation is one of seven recipients in the U.S. of the Social Innovation Fund grant. The community foundation, along with The Big Lift, hope the dedicated efforts to evaluating data and best practices will help improve reading and writing in elementary schools and provide a model for other communities in the state and across the U.S.
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Meticulon, a project of Autism Calgary Association in partnership with the federal government and the Sinneave Family Foundation, operates as a social enterprise that renders high-tech services provided by people with autism, leveraging their natural abilities at requiring attention to detail, repetition, and sequencing.