Economic Empowerment

United Airlines, Chase and Visa are encouraging and rewarding United Credit Cardmembers who make donations to non-profits focused on providing access to educational opportunities for Black students and supporting human and civil rights policies.

To build on our longstanding commitment to advance inclusion and empower economic opportunity in the Black community, we are committing $5 million to four regionally based Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

As a result of the pandemic, more schools around the country have adopted eLearning solutions for both remote and in-class learning experiences, which makes the release of the new digital format of Young Bankers Club® timely.

LPs inhabit a unique position to encourage VCs to invest in more diverse-founded companies.

Traditional VCs are less likely to prioritize or take action toward investing in multicultural-founded companies when compared to women or multicultural VCs.

Yum! reached out to three franchisees in the United States to get their perspectives on the race and social justice events of 2020 and entrepreneurship in underrepresented communities.

Land Betterment announced that the Company’s Environmental Solutions division is driving innovation and efficiencies in reclaiming former coal mining and industrial lands through the launch of its Land Betterment Exchange (“LBX”).

VCs are taking important initial steps to implement changes around increasing diversity and are discussing ways to make additional changes that will help close the funding gap.

This year, more VC firms assigned greater value to the investment opportunity that multicultural-founded companies present, and say that they are more likely to invest in multicultural- and women-founded companies in the coming year.