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Three Visionary Leaders Join Charter Members on the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Board
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The Highland Project Launches Fund for Black Women Seeking to Narrow the Wealth Gap
Non-profit would award a cohort of Black women innovators $100,000 each to improve conditions to generate wealth. Courtesy of The Highland Project
Despite grand symbolic gestures including widespread embrace of the phrase “Black Lives Matter” in the halls of Congress and on D.C. streets in the past year the reality is that Black conditions have struggled to advance materially for several generations.
Gabrielle Wyatt, founder of The Highland Project non-profit organization, wants to do something about it, especially for Black women.
“As Black women, we are tired of performative activism when real and meaningful policies and practices are needed to close the racial wealth gap,” she said in a press release. “Black women do so much for this country, but our contributions are rarely appreciated and certainly don’t always benefit us.” This is where The Highland Projec
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In celebration of Black History Month, Common Impact is spotlighting remarkable Black nonprofit leaders and their many contributions to creating more positive, healthy, and equitable communities.
Today we hear from Jerelyn Rodriguez, Founder & CEO of The Knowledge House, a South Bronx-based nonprofit committed to building a diverse pipeline of tech talent from low-income communities as a critical step in achieving its broader vision of alleviating poverty. The Knowledge House provides high school students and young adults with training, fellowships, and internships to prepare them for successful careers in technology. Like Jerelyn, all staff are people of color who hail from the same communities as these fellows.