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Sewing programs run by faith organizations might not scream “manufacturing,” but to the Urban Manufacturing Alliance, they embody not just the future of the industry but the ways to make it more inclusive.
Both Sew Forward and the Sewing Training Academy are highlighted in an Urban Manufacturing Alliance report released today titled “Manufacturing’s Emerging Partners: Faith-Informed Organizations Supporting Employment and Entrepreneurship.” The report examines the emergence, and effectiveness of, faith-based and faith-informed organizations as partners or connectors in the manufacturing sector. The report calls them “critical partners to inclusive manufacturing growth.”
The Urban Manufacturing Alliance considers manufacturing a promising wealth-building strategy for marginalized urban communities. “But in order to do that, and harness the power of manufacturing for cities and towns, we needed to broaden the notion of what people think of as a manufacturing practiti
The killing of George Floyd and the economic devastation of COVID-19 have sparked a resurgence of Jewish engagement with the Black community. There is an opportunity to build on a century of civil rights work and philanthropy.
In the early 20th century, Julius Rosenwald contributed to building more than 5,300 schools for Black children and over 30 YMCAs, supported Tuskegee Institute and other historically Black colleges and universities, built housing developments for Blacks, and helped support individual Black educational opportunities funding a long list of Blacks such as James Weldon Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Maya Angelo, Rita Dove, Ralph Ellison, Dr. Charles Drew, and Marian Anderson.