Venture for America fellows are working to make their new home a better place

Hsieh, Downtown Project pledge $1 million to the group, which places college graduates with startup businesses

Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 | 7 a.m.

Here’s the weird part of Josh Levine’s first three months into his two-year stint in Las Vegas as a fellow from Venture for America, a group that places new college graduates with startup businesses in cities not used to the startup trend. Levine likes it here. He likes it so much that when the 23-year-old is done with his stint working on health issues for the Downtown Project, the Wesleyan University graduate actually wants to stay here. “I went home for Thanksgiving (to New Haven, Conn.) and found myself a little homesick for Las Vegas,” Levine says. “I never would ...

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By sebring (Sebring Frehner)

Dec. 4, 2012

6:02 a.m.

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Venture for America is an amazing program that needs to be massively expanded.

Teach for America is an ideologically based organization that ignores poverty as a controlling factor in student success, pushes for-profit education "reforms" that data proves don't work, and is almost exclusively funded by organizations that either get rich from privatizing education or are anti-tax crusaders. If Hsieh doesn't ultimately regret funding them then the rest of us will.