MATTER Moments: April 2025
MATTER Moments explores the latest news and updates in April 2025.
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Celebrating 25 Years of Impact: MATTER’s Journey and Bold Vision for the Future
2025 marks a quarter century since MATTER’s founding. During the course of this year, we’ll highlight stories of impact and the people who were inspired to join this mission over the last 25 years. We’ll also take a peek into MATTER’s exciting future and invite you to join us as we continue our mission of
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Revolutionizing Education + Job Creation = A Brighter Future for Zimbabwe
“We’re really not interested in the status quo of education. We are about revolutionizing education. It’s a big aspiration and something that needs to take place across the world and is taking place. We just want to be the ones to bring it to those places that are often forgotten.” – Jeremy Newhouse, Chief of
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The MATTER Career Readiness Institute: Making the Impossible Possible
“This has been an impossible journey, honestly. That word perfectly describes everything. The impossible journey which was made possible.” Tendai Takura, MCRI graduate and Jamf employee Nineteen-year-old Tendai Takura (pictured above) is living a life that few of her fellow Zimbabweans can imagine. A bright student, Tendai excelled in the MATTER Innovation Hub during her
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Celebrating the Power of Partnership for the People of Zimbabwe
What happens when a group of like-minded people come together to share their passion, experiences, hopes and dreams? Magic. That’s the best way to describe what happened last Thursday evening at MATTER when over a hundred people gathered at MATTER’s headquarters in St. Louis Park to celebrate the impact and power of partnership for the
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MATTER Career Readiness Institute: Achieving Dreams For a Better Future
Imagine you’re a young person in Zimbabwe. You’re a good student and thrive in your local high school. As your academic skills flourish, your teachers encourage you to pursue a university degree after graduation. You would love to go, but there’s a mountain of obstacles in your way. First, your family barely makes ends meet.
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MATTER 2022 Highlights: A Year of Impact!
2022 was an amazing year. People came together like never before to support MATTER’s mission of launching projects to improve communities. Collaborating with our 450 donors, 75 corporate partners, 48 community partners, and 9,000 incredible volunteers, we impacted 3.2 million people this year! Here are a few highlights of what we accomplished together: MATTERbox 75
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Transforming Education & Changing Lives: Innovation Hub Update
MATTER Innovation Hub Update What a difference a year makes. A year ago, I arrived with my family in Zimbabwe because MATTER made the decision to invest in accelerating the Innovation Hub program- not just cheerlead the program from the sidelines 8,000 miles away in Minneapolis, but engage to push forward the idea that student-centric
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Jamf’s JNUC Shines a Spotlight on MATTER Innovation Hubs
Thousands of people gathered this week in San Diego for the 13th annual Jamf Nation User Conference, known as JNUC. The largest gathering of Apple system administrators in the world, this year’s conference marked the first in-person conference since 2019. With thousands from around the world also live streaming the conference, Jamf CEO Dean Hager
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You Matter Stories Episode 4: Dean Hager’s Spark of Hope Changes Lives
This is the fourth episode in our continuing series, You Matter Stories. On a seemingly ordinary day more than thirty years ago, 16-year-old Dean Hager found himself sitting in detention. Again. School wasn’t high on his list of priorities, so he got in trouble. A lot. For Dean, school didn’t matter all that much. Growing
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