Grow with Google: Learner Story

Grow with Google: Learner Story

In 2023, Shaun Simmons walked into a small business launch session hosted by Dayton Equity Center with a lot of questions. This session entitled “Launch Your Business with Customer-Focused Marketing” covers creating a business plan based off of current marketing...
Partnering for Digital Opportunity

Partnering for Digital Opportunity

Dayton Equity Center announced it’s working with Google to provide digital skills programs to advance economic opportunity for people impacted by incarceration. In June, Google shared it has invested $4 million toward a new fund that aims to expand its justice reform...
Stories of Opportunity

Stories of Opportunity

After graduation in May, we asked Josh to tell his story. He showed up the week we launched and began working at Procter and Gamble less than a month later. The following is what he wrote: “POWER: A small but impactful program that grows with every completion....
Watering Planted Seeds

Watering Planted Seeds

Children are the future and how that future looks depends on what is put into nurturing it. The After School program at the Roosevelt Elementary School in Dayton, Ohio does just that; through enrichment activities that include Arts and Crafts, STEM activities along...
Corona Camp: Be a Hero

Corona Camp: Be a Hero

At that time it seemed that the COVID-19 pandemic had spanned years. As cases fell over the summer it was still unsafe for any typical camp experience. Those excuses did not stop our team from joining with a few partners to put on a weekly, socially distant summer...