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Diz Petit has been a community activist since she was 16 years old — she always had a desire to do right. Most recently she co-founded LiquiDonate, a for-profit service that matches a retail company’s unsellable items with local nonprofits and schools who need them while saving the company money —

For this post, I wanted to dive deeper into one of my favorite investment + philanthropy collaborations we’ve made at Rise Together, with Flexport. I view Flexport as a “shining star” example of how startups can apply their scalability and core competencies to effect change in a powerful way.

We are in the midst of a literacy crisis. Last year, the first national assessment of fourth graders’ reading since the pandemic illuminated the devastating impact COVID had on reading skill development, as students faced the largest decline in scores in 30 years.