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Founder of Atlanta-based Purposity Talks COVID's Impact on Generosity

Founder of Atlanta-based Purposity Talks COVID's Impact on Generosity

The last twelve months might most accurately be described as “The Year of the Pivot” for many startups. But for Atlanta-based Purposity, it was the year that validated their thesis that tech can help build up generosity across communities. Blake Canterbury, Purposity’s founder, told Hypepotamus that the team

ParentPreneur Foundation Launches New $1,000 Grants

ParentPreneur Foundation Launches New $1,000 Grants

James Oliver, Jr., veteran entrepreneur and founder of WeMontage, knows a thing or two about balancing parenting and work. His twins were born prematurely just as he was starting an accelerator program in Wisconsin for one of his latest startups. Oliver, a Morehouse grad, was immediately thrust into the realities

Atlanta-based Rubicon’s 2nd Year of Trick or Trash Helps Recycle Candy Wrappers

Atlanta-based Rubicon’s 2nd Year of Trick or Trash Helps Recycle Candy Wrappers

Perhaps the scariest thing about Halloween is the amount of plastic waste left over from discarded candy wrappers. Americans purchase more than 600 million pounds of Halloween each year. Since most curbside recycling services are unable to recycle candy wrappers, thousands of pounds of waste ends up in landfills or

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Atlanta-based Charityvest Launches an “HSA for Doing Good” to Help Employees Become Philanthropists

Charityvest started with a simple premise: Giving back should be easy. Founded by Georgia Tech grads Stephen Kump, Jon Koon and Ashby Foltz, and backed by Y Combinator, Charityvest believes that their technology platform does just that, by empowering individuals to create and run their very own tax-deductible charitable

uBack Rocks Startup Grind By Connecting Non-Profits to Corporations and Users

uBack Rocks Startup Grind By Connecting Non-Profits to Corporations and Users

Fintech app uBack is seeing some major successes lately in their efforts to scale their social good connection platform. Not only did they recently announce a $2 million Series A funding round, they are currently in Silicon Valley as part of the 2017 class of exhibitioners at Startup Grind. The