By Robert Jakubowski, JVA Consulting

JVA's Robert Jakubowski speaks with sixth and seventh graders from Denver Public Schools about college and career goals.
106. A perfect score. A testament to what can happen when a passionate and focused team is leveraged toward a common goal.
So what does it all mean? JVA and Denver Public Schools (DPS) recently got the news that they had received a perfect score (a 106 out of 106 possible points) on a U.S. Department of Education Grant JVA wrote on behalf of DPS. Although the number 106 did not have any special meaning prior to writing the grant for Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergrad Programs (GEAR UP) funding, it now means a great deal to DPS youth, district leaders and the JVA team. Continue reading


Google, Wikipedia shut down in protest of SOPA—what does it mean for nonprofits?
By Collin Lessing and Katy Snyder
Google, Wikipedia and hundreds of other websites have shut down today in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) legislation in the U.S. Senate, bills that aim to curb Internet piracy and copyright infringement by no longer allowing U.S. companies to sell ads to pirates or process payments for illegal online sales. Under this legislation, U.S.-based search-engines would be forced to remove suspected pirates from their search results. And according to a Huffington Post article, a website accused of copyright infringement could be shut down with “neither a trial nor a traditional court hearing.” Continue reading →
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