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Shared Interest is a nonprofit investment fund based in New York, NY, with a mission to advance racial, gender, and economic justice in Southern Africa. Since its founding in 1994, the organization has been mobilizing resources and unlocking local capital to empower black-owned small and medium-sized businesses, improve livelihoods, create jobs, and build sustainable communities in Southern Africa. Through their innovative operating model, strategic partnerships, and social impact investments, Shared Interest aims to support an inclusive Covid-19 economic recovery, promote women's entrepreneurship, address climate change, enhance agriculture, and foster fintech and social enterprises in the region. As Shared Interest celebrates its 30th anniversary, they are launching the Voices of Change campaign, highlighting influential voices in financial inclusion, philanthropy, social impact, and advocacy that have contributed to the economic empowerment of black women entrepreneurs and other SMEs in Southern Africa. With a vision to be a catalyst for financial inclusion, systems change, economic empowerment, and social impact, Shared Interest aims to expand its geographic footprint, partner effectively with local program experts and lending institutions, and reach 100,000 people in economically disenfranchised communities by 2024. Through their 30th Anniversary Campaign, they are seeking $3 million to support black women-owned businesses, SMEs in key development sectors, and unlock capital to scale the impact of the SME sector.Generated from the website

Institute of Play Inc was a non-profit design studio founded in 2007 by a group of game designers in New York City. They created innovative and accessible learning experiences rooted in the principles of game design, with a focus on transforming education through play. Their interdisciplinary team of designers, strategists, and learning practitioners developed a unique model for schools called Quest to Learn, which engaged and empowered students to thrive in the twenty-first century. Quest to Learn reimagined school as a node in an ecology of learning, extending beyond the classroom walls and incorporating exciting, empowering, and culturally relevant approaches to education. Their standards-based integrated curriculum mimicked the action and design principles of games, generating a compelling need to know in the classroom. Institute of Play closed in 2019, but their catalog of free resources, including curriculum planning and school design packs, is still available for download.Generated from the website