Articles & Interviews

Amanda Eller is one of the fall 2016 Jacobs fellows who entered the Entrepreneurship Career Program at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. She came with the goal of exploring impact investing. In this article she lays out how and why foundations should engage more in impact investing.

The importance of social and emotional education has gained recognition over the past few years and is now commonly included in the curriculum. Technology can play a major role in supporting this kind of education to promote social and emotional health. We worked with kids to see what kinds of technologies they would want.

Farmers in Côte d’Ivoire often live below the poverty line and are hardly able to save money. Elizabeth is 31 years old and has 5 children. She took out a loan of 72 USD and is planning to buy cocoa seedlings to plant 1ha of cocoa farm with it. The loan was provided by the Village Savings and Loans project.

The Jacobs Foundation’s 2016 Annual Report details our success in promoting the education and development of children and youth over the past year.

Asafeer Education Technologies wins the Transforming Education Prize, worth 50,000 Swiss francs, offered by TRECC. The company from Dubai provides schools with online digital resources for reading focused on enhancing literacy.

The Jacobs Research Fellows gather these days in Austin to present their work and interact with their peers, thereby critically discussing frontiers in research on child and youth development and exploring possibilities of collaboration.

The canton of Ticino will be devoting a great deal of attention to the topic of early childhood in the coming months. This will include a traveling exhibition and related regional activities, which are sponsored in part by the Jacobs Foundation.

Results of the research project “Early Childhood Education and Care Quality in the Socio-Economic Panel” will be presented at an international conference on 23-24 March in Berlin, Germany.

“Early Childhood Experience and the Developing Brain” is the title of a four-day reporting institute for international journalists hosted by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University’s Journalism School in New York. From March 9 to 12, 45 journalists from 28 countries attend the reporting institute, which the Jacobs Foundation has helped funding.