Catina Taylor

Elements of Education KC (KCMO, alumni)
Elements of Education Kansas City, in an effort to attract and retain African American women to the the profession of education in a time where they are leaving quicker than other demographics, provides a network of support and a safe space to express issues while offering healthy solutions to the many struggles that black female education professional experience in our education system.
$2500

Cescily Phillips

Inspired Aesthetics (KCMO)
Inspired Aesthetics is an after school program for young people in grades 9-12 that provides access to safe top quality, year-round arts education and training, mentoring, and academic support.
$2500

Clint Velazquez

Base Academy of Music (KCMO, alumni)
BAM's private lessons combine the benefits of a mentor relationship with music education to create an environment where students feel safe to grow and develop the social and emotional skills needed to succeed in school and life.
$5000

“Because of our grant from LEANLAB and partnership with Academy for the Integrated Arts we will be able to reconnect with 10 of those students to provide them the benefits of music, including much needed social and emotional support. This is a small and critical step to closing a big access gap, further exacerbated by COVID-19, that is central to our mission.”

Cornell Ellis

BLOC (KCMO)
Brothers Liberating Our Communities aims to sustain and ultimately retain black men in schools.
$2500

David Muhammad

Sankofa Leadership Institute (KCMO)
Sankofa Leadership Initiative works to use martial arts as a form of access to leadership for youth from a diverse set of communities.
$2500

Dr. Trinity Davis

Teachers Like Me (KCMO)
Teachers Like Me is an organization dedicated to recruiting, developing, and retaining Black teachers in the Kansas City area.
$2500

Edgar Palacios

Latinx Education Collaborative (KCMO, alumni)
The Latinx Education Collaborative works to increase the representation of Latinx education professionals in K-12. In the United States.
2500

Ina Montgomery

Urban TEC (KCMO)
Urban TEC seeks to deliver Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) programs to teachers and students that will engage students with their teachers' lessons and expose them to the promise of jobs and opportunities in the field.
$5000

JC Gibbs

Jathen Corporation (KCMO)
Tech solutions pre-loaded with resources for homeless and at-risk youth in KC.
$1000

Kiara Butler

Diversity Talks (Providence R.I., alumni)
Diversity Talks specializes in increasing the cultural competence of educators by providing youth-led professional development grounded in diversity equity and inclusion.
$1000

Dr. LaTonya Stephens

Generation Prodigy (KCMO)
GP helps close the gap in educational matriculation between low-income and wealthy students by providing programs that increase school attendance and critical thinking skills.
$5000

“The micro-grant from Lean Lab could not have come at a better time!  We reached a stalemate, needing to simplify how we managed our programs. We needed support to obtain software to continue the pace and growth of activities with our students. The number of students we support are growing and this grant will allow us to change the direction of another life.”

Dr. Philip Hickman

DBA: PlaBook (KCMO)
PlaBook is an innovative reading technology that uses artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and speech recognition to help children learn to read.
$2500

Rebecca Dove

Pennez (KCMO)
Pennez utilizes Machine Learning to help youth to become better readers.
$1500

Roy Scott

Healthy Hip Hop (KCMO, alumni)
Healthy Hip Hop is an EdTech platform powered by the arts and social interaction. Infusing education, cutting-edge technology and positive attributes within the hip-hop culture to improve learning environments, focus and engagement.
$2500

Sage Salvo

Words Liive (Washington D.C., alumni)
For the vast majority of teachers struggling with time-to-prepare engaging and effective literacy lessons, Words Liive systemically integrates the music their students love, via song lyrics, into their reading and writing assignments.
$2500

Susanna Elizarraraz

Memorial Scholarship (KCMO)
The KCMO Memorial Scholarship scholarship will offer siblings of the victims of gun violence hope through access to post-secondary education & beyond.
$3000

Tammy Buckner

WeCode KC (KCMO)
Starting at the high school level, WeCode KC Accelerated prepares underserved young adults, and youth in urban communities with the skills to becoming full-stack software developers, web developers, computer programmers, project managers and other STEM related careers.
$2500

Tiffany Price

Hold Em Up 4 Care (KCMO)
Free measuring, fitting, and bra donations for young women in Kansas City.
$1000

William Wells

aSTEAM Village (KCMO)
aSTEAM Village provides cradle-to-career STEM/STEaM education programming with a targeted focus on addressing the mismatch between supply and demand for the digital skills needed to build a 21st Century Workforce.
$2500