COVID19 has generated a lot of new uncertainty for founders and entrepreneurs who deal with more than their fair share of that to begin with.
We’ve reached out to our network and community to compile some of the most helpful resources to alleviate that.
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Face2Face Health - Offering a 30-day free trial to all parents for our health literacy program and we will be launching integrative provider telehealth including Covid-19 in mid-April. Gain access to the knowledge you need to better manage your family's health, development and well-being.
With 125+ learning modules all in one place, you can get a FREE one-month access to our E-Learning courses: Please submit the code F2FNOW when you join!
Read to Lead - Classroom, Inc. - Read to Lead coaches, a team of tenured educators and parents, will host bi-weekly lunch and learns for any educator in need of support in the transition to distance learning. Build a virtual educator community. Bring your questions and concerns. Our coaches will discuss the challenges and help you create concrete action plans! Learn more →
Playworks - For founders looking to balance working from home with small children, our partner Playworks launched their Play at Home series to support kids’ healthy movement and play while students are home. Free downloadable resource: The Play at Home Playbook: Powered by Playworks.
Playworks has for over 24 years focused on bringing games and activities to schools, while creating a safe and healthy recess for students. We are now, more than ever, committed to responding to the need for continued healthy activities at home through several resources we are offering for free:
Play at Home Webpage: A library of videos and other resources featuring games and activities families can play at home. Each meeting the CDC requirements of social distancing and limited equipment. All available free on the Play at Home Webpage
Play at Home Playbook: This game guide has a variety of games and activities families can do in their own home, with little to no equipment necessary.
Live Virtual Recess: A Playworks Coach leading a morning warm-up, a midday game, and an afternoon cooldown each day. Anyone can tune into Facebook Live Monday- Friday at 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm EST and play along. Not on Facebook, or can’t join live? Playworks posts all Virtual Recess videos on the Playworks YouTube page so you can Play at Home anytime.
Science with Sophie - In light of the school shutdowns and all the families stuck at home, the team has redoubled our efforts to expedite the launch of their online lesson plans. And now they’re officially available on the website so you can do science at home! Download here →
Online Learning Research Center - Providing evidence-based resources for educators, students and researchers to improve achievement and equity in online learning. Whether you are a first-time online instructor looking to get started, a veteran seeking to improve your online teaching, a student seeking ways to improve your online study skills, or a scholar or educational leader seeking the latest research on online learning, this site was designed for you.
Additional Resources:
UC Irvine Opens Online Learning Research Center as Coronavirus Forces Faculty Online, by Sara Weissman, in Diverse Education (March 24, 2020).
Michael Dennin, Five Evidence-Based Ways to Improve Online Courses (March 26, 2020)
Remote Resources during the Corona Virus - Many people are finding themselves working remotely unexpectedly because of COVID19. If you and your team are suddenly remote, start here!
Tech against Coronavirus - It is very likely that most of us will have to work from home in the very near future due to the coronavirus outbreak. So here’s a list of products you can use to maintain collaboration and work remotely with your team. As a distributed team ourselves, we’ve used many of these over the past 5 years. Please contribute with any software solution you’ve heard of or used yourself that might benefit others. Add Product →
Map: Coronavirus and School Closures - Published by Education Week, this resource page is updated at least once a day on weekdays and at least once on the weekends. The coronavirus pandemic has forced widespread school closures in the United States in an unprecedented disruption of K-12 schooling. Use the map, charts, and tables to see state-level information about school closures. Historical data includes school-and district-level data collected from 3/9/2020 to 3/25/2020.
EdTech Digest has put together an extensive list providing various types of resources for parents and educators. Learning in a Time of Coronavirus Resource List.
CARES Act Resources - CARES Act What the Paycheck Protection Program Means for Startups
Pilot’s guide to the Paycheck Protection Program and CARES Act for startups - How startups might benefit from the new federal stimulus bill.
MICHELSON 20MM Opens New Grant Period: Michelson Spark Grants. With the COVID-19 crisis severely impacting the educational space, the Michelson 20MM Foundation is launching a new round of the Spark Grant program on April 6th to fund work that supports students and faculty at this time. We will accept proposals via our updated RFP until 11:59 pm PT on April 27th or until our funds have expired.
Spark Grants is an innovative, just-in-time grantmaking process. Their vision is to introduce a process that can fill urgent needs for education organizations that are well-aligned with our Key Target Outcomes. We seek to fund highly impactful initiatives that would not be possible if they needed to wait through a traditional grant decision timeline. Apply here →
Covidcap.com is for any small business, nonprofit, enterprise, b-corporation, social entrepreneur or entrepreneur. Each resource has slightly different eligibility criteria. It includes grants, loans and other cash equivalents, like tax rebates or reduced fees. The list includes regional resources, national resources. and global resources that are or were available around the world. Duke University CASE i3’s Faculty Director, Cathy Clark, put the site together and has been getting help from others on the CASE team, students at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and others. She released the site in a two-part LinkedIn article, quoting that there is over $14 billion of COVID19 capital relief listings. Each listing includes the location, host organization, a brief description of the resource, what level of capital is available, a link to more information, and detail about whether the offering is a list of more resources, and whether it includes grants, loans, equity, or cash equivalents.
Summer Internship Resource - According to an article in Forbes, What To Do If The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Cancels Your Summer Internship, there are options for students to get more involved during the summer and especially within the EdTech community for assistantships and internships that are being offered remotely. StartEd Members, Paragon One, are helping companies manage remote intern programs in content, marketing, research, data analytics, and business development. Students can be hosted year round and are already working with companies and startups to take their outsourced work projects and turn into structured remote internships for students.
Get involved with StartEd - Students looking to get involved and enhance their role in EdTech? We have openings on the StartEd team that affords high visibility into the industry and receives hands-on training in supporting our growing ecosystems worldwide, you can submit an application here.
Our premise amongst our team and network is to give first. We fundamentally believe that when you give first, you create a high likelihood of good karma coming back to you later in unexpected ways. The founders of StartEd each live their lives this way and we want the company we’ve created to be known for this trait, and we want that to continue to be our legacy.
On the tails of this thought, we are proud to learn that one of our community members started a non-profit literally overnight called Meals4Heroes, which donates to provide meals from local restaurants to medical professionals working in New York City hospitals as they risk their lives to fight COVID-19. Read their full story →
They have also been mentioned in People Magazine: These Organizations Are Feeding Healthcare Workers and First Responders Across the Country
We are partnering with the team at Doing4Good as they continue to grow and help feed our front-line workers. Donate here →
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’”
— MLK Jr.
We hope to continue to grow and refine this list of resources. If you know of something that should be here, please get in touch with us.
