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CommonLit

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Free reading passages and progress tracking tools for students in grades 3-12.
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Location: United States, District of Columbia, Washington

Employees: 11-50

Total raised: $7.4M

Founded date: 2013

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Date	Series	Amount	Investors
09.10.2018	Grant	$3.5M	-
05.10.2016	Grant	$3.9M	-

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20.05.2024	'Wait, I Have to Pay to Donate to You?' How Nonprofits Are Flipping the Script With 'For Profit' Strategies to 10X Their Impact Spiraling donations and outdated dogmas around fundraising and operating...	Six years ago, Michelle Brown met with a major funder of her literacy nonprofit. She'd been counting on them to renew their grant, and there was no reason they shouldn't. But as the meeting began, she had that sickening, slow-motion realiza...
02.06.2021	CommonLit Launches “CommonLit 360,” a Free Digital Reading Curriculum	WASHINGTON (PRWEB) June 02, 2021 CommonLit, the nonprofit online reading program that provides literacy resources for students around the world just launched CommonLit 360, a comprehensive digital reading curriculum offered free of charge t...
05.05.2021	CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. From teacher to CEO: How CommonLit's founder is using technology to impact millions of teachers and students	CommonLit is an award-winning education technology nonprofit dedicated to closing persistent opportunity gaps in literacy education. The nonprofit is best-known for operating a free online reading program utilized by tens of thousands of lo...
22.03.2020	Билл Гейтс ответил на 31 вопрос о коронавирусе	Александра Кукуть Коронавирус 22 марта 2020, 15:00 Билл Гейтс ответил на 31 вопрос о коронавирусе Сооснователь Microsoft Билл Гейтс не раз предупреждал о том, что мир не готов к пандемии. В марте этого года он покинул родную компанию, чтобы...
19.03.2020	Learning In The Time Of COVID-19	Some useful resources to support learning in the time of COVID-19
08.10.2019	Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.	When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. It’s not because these students and teachers have a peculiar penchant ...
09.10.2018	CommonLit nabs $3.5 million grant from Google	CommonLit, a D.C.-based nonprofit that provides a free online reading platform for students, just secured a $3.5 million grant from Google to help expand resources for teachers. The company made the announcement of the partnership on World ...
09.10.2018	CommonLit nabs $3.5 million grant from Google	CommonLit, a D.C.-based nonprofit that provides a free online reading platform for students, just secured a $3.5 million grant from Google to help expand resources for teachers. The company made the announcement of the partnership on World ...
09.10.2018	CommonLit Nabs $3.5 Million Grant From Google	CommonLit, a D.C.-based nonprofit that provides a free online reading platform for students, just secured a $3.5 million grant from Google to help expand resources for teachers. The company made the announcement of the partnership on World ...
09.10.2018	CommonLit Nabs $3.5 Million Grant From Google	CommonLit, a D.C.-based nonprofit that provides a free online reading platform for students, just secured a $3.5 million grant from Google to help expand resources for teachers. The company made the announcement of the partnership on World ...
30.05.2017	Epic! raises $8 million to keep kids reading in a digital age	The makers of Epic!, one of many apps jockeying to become a “Netflix for books,” have raised $8 million in a round led by Reach Capital, the education-specialized venture firm. Additional investors in the Series C included TransLink Capital...
27.12.2016	The Biggest D.C. EdTech Stories in 2016	D.C. is known to attract some of the top education talent. Which is why it's the home to several education technology companies, such as Blackboard, 2U, Everfi and LearnZillion. So, it seems fitting, that some of the biggest D.C. tech stori...
08.12.2016	Why edtech startups need to build for overlooked communities	Shannon Farley Contributor Shannon Farley is co-founder and executive director at Fast Forward, a tech accelerator for social impact startups. More posts by this contributor Five key lessons from founders who launched social impact startups...
05.10.2016	CommonLit wins $3.9 million grant to help students master reading skills	A tech nonprofit called CommonLit won a $3.89 million grant from the Department of Education to develop software and content that helps students read well enough to graduate from high school and succeed in their careers or college. The gran...
17.05.2016	DC Edtech Startup Scores $125K in AT&T Accelerator	Michelle Brown recently moved her edtech startup CommonLit from Boston to Washington, D.C., for the chance at new opportunities. That decision is already starting to pay off now that AT&T has chosen her company as one of the half dozen ...
10.05.2016	Another DC-based edtech startup heads to AT&T’s Aspire Accelerator	1776-based CommonLit, a nonprofit that provides Common Core-aligned educational texts for students, has been accepted into the 2016 class of AT&T’s Aspire Accelerator. CommonLit joins five other edtech startups in the current cohort, wh...
13.07.2015	The Top Ten S'Cool Tools for Q2, 2015	Summertime, and the livin’ is easy--though for many educators and administrators, preparations for the new year have already begun to rev up. Perfect timing for the next round of top “S’Cool Tools!” Every week, EdSurge sends out an educator...

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