Thursday, April 27, 2017

Baby box startup wins $25,000 through Hopkins Social Innovation Lab

A mother looking to prevent cases of sudden infant death syndrome in Maryland has won $25,000 to help fund her “baby box” startup concept. As a member of Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab’s 2016-2017 cohort, Shantell Roberts has been working on a venture around Portable Alternative Cribs, through her nonprofit Touching Young Lives Inc. The project aims to encourage safe sleep for infants and is a spinoff of a baby box concept seen in Finland. There, the government provides small cardboard boxes…



from http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2017/04/27/baby-box-startup-wins-25-000-through-hopkins.html?ana=RSS%26s=article_search
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