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Since Sage Corps’ first cohort in 2013, it’s been our mission to make the intern abroad experience accessible and affordable to as many young people as possible, regardless of race, gender, culture, background, or identity. Our efforts have been met with extreme success; while 70% of college students who study abroad are white, 50% of our alumni come from…
In fall of 2013, Sage Corps was born at 1871, Chicago’s leading startup incubator and tech hub. 1871 was instrumental to our growth in many ways. Weekly workshops and office hours with mentors offered guidance and insights about key building blocks of our business; visits from foreign diplomats helped us access countries that would later…
If you’re a fan of ABC’s Shark Tank, you might have seen Chicago-based startup ChangEd appear on this past Sunday’s episode. ChangEd is an app that rounds up every purchase you make with your credit card to the next dollar and puts that spare change directly towards your student loan payments. We’re proud to also call them one…
