It gave the notion that not only was being White the golden ticket to paid work, but that the corporate world viewed White employees as a better investment for their dollar.
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Founder's Corner
As much as I like to view myself as self-made and that I was single-handedly responsible for my achievements up to this point, the fact of the matter is that my success is deeply and unbreakably bound to the opportunities I have been provided.
Far too often we allow the circumstances of our birth to decide our own future goals.
In an era of record-level powerhouse donations to academia, we hope to debunk the notion that educational philanthropy is limited to the old, the wealthy and the corporate-funded.
If young Black males have never met another Black man who was an engineer, a doctor, a physicist or mathematician, it narrows their level of perceived possibility.