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This year, the Foundation is extending its support to 12 nonprofits in 11 countries, including new recipients in Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Spain and the United Kingdom, and deepening relationships with four recipients it had invested in last year. Foundation grants will positively impact more than 55,000 people over the next two years, with a focus on cybersecurity and AI skills development and career placement initiatives.
Junior Achievement (JA) Americas is among the Foundation grant recipients this year. This nonprofit and Nobel Peace Prize nominee is a frontrunner in empowering youth for employment and entrepreneurship across 26 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.Â
“We are steadfast in our mission to ensure that more women are skilled and empowered to participate in the tech industry, specifically in cybersecurity, and we recognize that collaboration is key to making a profound impact,” said Noël Zemborain, President of JA Americas. “We are excited to have secured a Kyndryl Foundation grant to help young women in Brazil and Costa Rica gain critical employment skills.”
The Foundation also has introduced multiyear grants of up to two years to help grantees deliver longer-term, more sustainable impact.Â
NPO Sodateage Net, a nonprofit that supports the economic independence of Japan’s young adults, is one of the Foundation’s multiyear grantees this year. “As recipients of Kyndryl’s inaugural grant, we were able to train an aggregate of 188 participants with an 89% completion rate in the final course. This is only an indication of how much we can achieve together in the years to come,” said Kei Kudo, Chairperson of NPO Sodateage Net. “We are hopeful that our long-term relationship with the Kyndryl Foundation will bring us closer to bridging Japan’s cybersecurity skills gap.”