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Former McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson and wife Elizabeth launched The Cleveland Avenue Foundation for Education to support diversity in teaching, and economic mobility in the Black community. On April 28, they’ll dole out $1 million to each of five organizations achieving those goals nationwide, in an online event headlined by luminaries including Common and Earvin “Magic” Johnson.
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Before former McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson and wife Elizabeth launched their vision of supporting food and beverage entrepreneurs through their successful venture capital firm, they’d dreamed of helping youth access the education that had propelled a couple from Cabrini-Green to the pinnacles of success.
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By Cherranda Smith
Mar 1, 2021
On Thursday (February 25), the Center for Black Educator Development announced its $3 million initiative to get more Black teachers in classrooms across the nation.
The Philly-based organization’s program goal is to get at least 21,000 Black high school and college students into a pipeline to become teachers over the next 12 years through its Black Educators of Excellence Fellowship Program.
Sharif El-Mekki, the Center’s founder, told
The Philadelphia Inquirer inspiring Black teachers is a necessary component of the mission, “they are worthy, and they are worthy of our youth,” he said. “That is a message, a key component, that is not always offered to our youth.”