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Investing in Black-owned businesses, entrepreneurs, and community leaders is critical to creating opportunity, diversity and economic inclusion in our communities.
Saskia Epstein, Vice President at PNC Bank and Carolyn Jones, BBJ Market President sat down with Colette Phillips, CEO of CPC Global Communications and founder of the GK! Fund and Get Konnected; Natanja Craig-Oquendo, Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Fund, and Jae’da Turner, Founder and Managing Director of Black Owned Bos. to learn more about how we can take action to spur and support this growth.
Last April PNC announced an $88 billion Community Benefits Plan, inclusive of a previously announced commitment of more than $1 billion to support the economic empowerment of Black Americans and low- and moderate- income communities.
The commitment includes charitable support for national and local work that will help address social justice issues and economic inequality.
In addition to PNC’s support of the Boston Women’s Fund, Black Owned Bos. and the GK! Fund, the PNC foundation recently awarded grants to BECMA, Center for Women and Enterprise, Commonwealth Kitchen, EforAll Roxbury, and Tech Goes Home. Read more.
