The Connor Group Kids & Community Partners, recently honored by The Dayton Business Journal as Community Supporter of the Year finalist, grew in size, scope and impact in 2022. And it’s just getting started. In the spring, the organization broke ground on a $50-million campus for The Greater Dayton School. GDS, the state’s first private […]

Kids & Community Partners is a non-profit born out of a high-performance for-profit business. So when our associates began researching and vetting Road to Hire, it felt a bit like looking in a mirror. The Charlotte-based non-profit provides training and career guidance for underrepresented youth in the tech sector. It began as an equity and […]

Long before the COVID pandemic forced elementary school students to learn online, two childhood best friends and recent college grads decided to harness the Internet to help underserved students with their school work. Stephen Chen and Neeraj Kapoor founded Learn to Be in 2008 and began connecting kids with free online tutoring. “We thought it […]

Long before the COVID pandemic forced elementary school students to learn online, two childhood best friends and recent college grads decided to harness the Internet to help underserved students with their school work. Stephen Chen and Neeraj Kapoor founded Learn to Be in 2008 and began connecting kids with free online tutoring. “We thought it […]

June 8, 2022 – Enrollment is underway for the Greater Dayton School, Ohio’s first private non-religious elementary school exclusively dedicated to under-resourced students. The innovative educational model will cater to the whole child and, according to its founders, set the bar for a national model that provides students access to all the resources they need […]