The Center for Youth and Communities in Brandeis' Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University has received $5 million from the Walmart Foundation to help place nearly 3,000 at-risk teens in part-time jobs.
The center will serve as the national program office, which will provide up to $800,000 in grants to government and nonprofit agencies responsible for developing strategies that keep at-risk youth engaged in productive activity.
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.