🌱 The Impact Fellows Newsletter #18
Featuring Encantos, a story-based teaching platform, and internship opportunities across health, law, and design!
💡 Featured Social Impact Company: Encantos
Encantos is a platform that fuses enchanting stories with curriculum-based learning, which they like to call "storyteaching." They have an app meant for kids aged 0-12 that is ad-free, designed by educators, and kid-friendly. The company is on a mission to inspire kids to learn 21st-century skills by democratizing and diversifying both what and how kids learn.
Founded by Steven Wolfe Pereira and Susie Jaramillo in 2016, Encantos seeks to use stories as tools for learning in three key areas: learning, life, and literacy skills. Particularly, there is a challenge in the future with needing to develop new skills in current youth, and the story method helps children learn how to critically think and adapt to change.
Encantos is also a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), and each of their brands is "tied to a family-focused social benefit cause to give back to a community." Currently, their biggest partners are Save The Children, Reach Out & Read, and the National Association for Bilingual Education (NABE).
Encantos has been featured in a variety of media outlets, including CNBC, Entrepreneur, Parents Latina Magazine, and more.
💼 Social Impact Jobs & Internships
Cybersecurity
Environmental Science
Responsible Procurement Intern @ Chemours
Health
Nutrition Communication Intern @ Eat Well Global, Inc
Health Equity Intern @ Merck
Finance
Impact Investing Internship @ IMPACT Community Capital LLC
Investment Team Intern @ Advantage Capital
Law
Appropriations Policy Intern @ Enterprise
Technology Policy Intern @ Software & Information Industry Association
Federal Policy Intern @ Southern Poverty LaCenter
Management & Operations
Operations Intern @ Holy Grail Inc
Product Marketing Intern @ Blue River Technology
Product Management
Product Management Intern @ Therma
Social Work
Social Work Counseling Intern @ Centerstone
Software Engineering
Software Engineering Intern @ Entrust
Software Engineering Intern @ Steris
Structural Design
Urban Design Internship @ Bolton & Menk inc
Design Intern @ Blue Star Integrative Studio
Visual Design
Graphic and Website Design Internship @ Renew Democracy Initiative
Graphic Design Intern @ Outlines
🗞 Social Impact in the News
New Office of Diversity, Inclusion & Social Impact for Washington airports
Automation Anywhere Appoints Neeti Mehta Shukla as the Company's First Social Impact Officer
How Machine Learning can Improve Program Targeting in Development
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