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E70: Creating Equal Opportunities in Tech with Ruthe Farmer, Founder of the Last Mile Education Fund
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On today’s episode, I’m talking to Ruthe Farmer - the visionary founder and CEO of the Last Mile Education Fund.
Last Mile is a nonprofit that is committed to addressing social mobility and tech diversity by investing in overlooked and under-resourced talent. They take a disruptive approach to bridging critical gaps in financial support for low income and underrepresented students, ensuring they can complete their degrees and enter the tech workforce.
Ruthe is sharing the innovative approaches employed by Last Mile, the importance of increasing diversity in technology, their abundance-based philosophy, and more.
In this episode:
- [02:38] The Last Mile Education Fund - increasing diversity in the tech and engineering fields through financial support
- [09:53] Last Mile’s disruptive approach to getting students into the workforce
- [12:49] Last Mile’s funding model and its abundance based philosophy
- [20:25] Identifying and accessing partnerships
- [26:23] Last Mile’s policy advocacy and advice for grassroots organizations to start influencing policy
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CONNECT WITH RUTHE
LinkedIn: Ruthe Farmer
Instagram: @lastmilefund
Website: lastmile-ed.org
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CONNECT WITH HALEY
Haley is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), Certified Stress Management Coach, and Certified EmC train the trainer. She is the Founder of The Savvy Fundraiser, a nonprofit consulting and coaching business. She has worked in both small and large nonprofit teams in the human services, homelessness, and youth sectors; and she specializes in the EmC process, nonprofit leadership, board development, and fundraising. Haley is a passionate, impact-driven, experienced nonprofit professional whose mission is to empower, elevate and engage nonprofit leaders to build healthy, thriving organizations.
Instagram: @thesavvyfundraiser
LinkedIn: Haley Cooper, CFRE
Website: thesavvyfundraiser.com
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