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With $2 Million in Backing, Climb Hire Tackles the Social Ladder

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The program, run by a group called Climb Hire , has $2 million in backing to get the program off the ground, courtesy of donors not new to education—Google.org, the charitable arm of tech giant Google; Schmidt Futures, a philanthropic initiative from former Google Chairman Eric Schmidt; and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.

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