DAKAR, SENEGAL | EDC and The MasterCard Foundation are set to announce a $15M, five-year project that will help more than 30,000 Senegalese youth develop the skills they need to secure jobs or start a business.
Public media leader WGBH Boston, in partnership with EDC, will create new initiatives to help kids ages three to five gain science and computational thinking skills, thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation.
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has selected EDC to lead a $24.5 million, five-year workforce development program in the Republic of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa.
EDC has been chosen to continue operating the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) Northeast & Islands through 2022 with a new five-year, $26 million contract awarded by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education.
EDC, in partnership with The John A. Hartford Foundation, will lead a national team of experts to address what is seen as a gap in the U.S. health care system—the failure to identify and prevent elder mistreatment, including abuse and neglect.
With grants totaling $27 million from government, foundation, industry, and higher education partners, EDC is broadening student access to high-quality computer science (CS) learning.
With funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development, EDC is partnering with Creative Associates on Northern Education Initiative Plus (NEI Plus), a five-year program in Nigeria.
EDC, in partnership with J.P. Morgan, launched an innovative program to help young people in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gain the technical and employability skills that employers are demanding in the region’s dynamic digital economy.
