Balance Point

Melinda Gates | January 30, 2020

Pivotal Ventures, along Break Through Tech, SecondMuse, and "several leading social organizations," announced Jan. 28 a new city-based initiative to bring more women into tech. Melinda Gates' company Pivotal Ventures invested $50 million in Gender Equality in Tech Cities to engage women as college students, employees and founders and investors in city-based tech hubs nationwide. The initiative's goal is to speed up gender equality in the tech sphere by maximizing "the impa...

CUPA-HR | July 15, 2020

Representation and pay of Black employees across the higher education workforce varies considerably depending on the type of position. To highlight this challenge, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) has created an interactive graphic that encourages institutions to explore workforce data from the past five years....

PopID | September 15, 2020

No population has been struck harder by COVID-19 than seniors. PopID, a Pasadena-based company, today announced the installation of its AI-enabled health screening system at its 35th senior living community in the U.S. The fixed biometric device, PopEntry+, is the first true, contact-free platform to combine facial recognition for employee identification, instant fever detection, and hand gesture recognition for health question screening. PopID's latest system was installed this week at Mode...

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Staffing Industry Analysts | January 03, 2022

On December 31st, the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) announced a list of the 52 fastest-growing staffing firms in the U.S. Freedom Healthcare ranked 26th on the list, reporting a compound annual growth rate of 26.2%. It was also reported to be the 10th fastest-growing staffing agency in the healthcare sector. Freedom Healthcare is a rapid response healthcare staffing firm that fulfills the nationwide demand for nurses, clinical practitioners, and allied professionals in the heal...