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Holding Corporate America Accountable- (From POCIT) The CBC’s first-of-its-kind report aims to hold Fortune 500 companies accountable for their DEI pledges made after George Floyd’s murder in 2020. Titled?“What Good Looks Like”: A Corporate Accountability Report on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,?the report is based on months of meetings with hundreds of executives across different sectors and comes nearly a year after the CBC issued a corporate accountability letter in December 2023. The report outlines 12 best practices to help companies improve diversity and equity in the workplace. Key areas include leadership accountability, pay equity, promotion rates, supplier diversity, and more. “We cannot allow a handful of right-wing agitators to bully corporations,” CBC Chairman Steven Horsford says. “This report offers corporate America a guide to strengthening their diversity practices and advancing economic opportunity for all Americans.” You can read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gEQjdDzF #diversity #diversityandinclusion #DEI

SOUND THE ALARM ?? and SHARE! To GOD Be The Glory! It’s been over a year of being in a federal court case and now it’s finally dismissed! A few things that need to be clarified: 1. This is a WIN and positive outcome for the Fearless Fund and our community. 2. The US federal court of appeals stopped the Fearless Strivers grant program for Black women on June 3rd ruling suggesting we were in violation of the law. This program has not been operating since it entered the appeals process back in September 2023 and it was at its conclusion of the grant program when the court case began August 2023, it was designed to award 6 people in one year and it was at its end when the case began. 3. We strategically avoided a Supreme Court ruling (the deadline to appeal our appeal has passed) because a ruling not in our favor at the Supreme Court would’ve ended minority based funding across the country and that would not be wise, we have already seen the Supreme Court ruling for the colleges end affirmative action for all colleges in schools and admissions. 4. Elections have consequences, we have had 3 federal rulings in this process where 4 Trump appointed judges ruled against us, 2 Clinton and 1 Obama appointed judges ruled for us. The writing is on the wall of who wants this work to continue and who does not. Be sure to vote November 5th! 5. This work is important because the statistics for the underfunded are overwhelming and this is why we have invested millions of dollars and awarded grants to over 500. 6. Any false narrative floating that anyone is claiming we are not moving forward at the Fearless Fund is not true, what is true is that we are proud to announce our new debt fund (our loan program is live on our website) for under resourced entrepreneurs- male and female! 7. The one grant program the US appeals courts stopped was funding 6 entrepreneurs, this new program will touch over 3000 entrepreneurs, that sounds like a WIN to me. WE ARE STILL FUNDING WE ARE STILL FEARLESS! #FEARLESSFREEDOM

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The Coca-Cola Company is being recognized for its commitment to Supplier Diversity as one of the Top 10: Supplier Diversity Leaders. In the article below it says that our funding portal https://lnkd.in/g2XnXUte is one of the things they did that helped them lead the charge: "In North America, Coca?Cola Company supported the launch of Rise Up Crowdfunding, an equity crowdfunding portal that empowers members of the public to invest in women—and minority-owned small companies and startups seeking to raise capital." A Big thank you to Fernando Hernandez and The Coca-Cola Company. #supplierdiversity #CocaCola #RiseUpCrowdfunding?#GameChanger #SmallBusinessFunding #equitycrowdfunding https://lnkd.in/e6J82D4P

A study produced for the SEC’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee by Melody Chang, PhD, USC Marshall School of Business, reviewed crowdfunding data between May 2016 and December 2022. The report “Women and Minority-Owned Businesses in Regulation Crowdfunding” noted that $1.4 billion in capital was raised in 5,969 offerings by 5,211 individual businesses. If you need capital and are a Woman or a Minority-owned business please check out https://lnkd.in/g2XnXUte. We just closed our first offering at over six hundred thousand dollars. #femalefounders #SmallBusinesses #RiseUpCrowdfunding?#Minoritybusineses #womenowned #equitycrowdfunding

This Weekend Is The Last Chance To Invest In Wunderground Coffee On Rise Up Crowdfunding Wunderground Coffee is an adaptogenic?mushroom coffee brand with?an A-Team of former Starbucks executives. They mix wellness with your favorite daily ritual. As I write this, they have over $458,330 raised of a $750,000 maximum. This is former Starbucks marketing director Jody Hall's third startup after two successful exits. Jody brings 10 years of experience in operations and marketing at Starbucks during their growth stage (1989-2000) and cherry-picked an incredible team along with investors and advisors that includes: Howard Behar - former COO of Starbucks Jim Alling - former President of Starbucks North America Hana Su - who built Starbucks bottled Frappuccino and Via Instant Coffee Mary Wagner - former chief of R&D Starbucks Craig Russell - former SVP of supply chain and quality at Starbucks Eric Hoest - VP Stumptown Coffee; CFO Brew Doctor Kombucha Tim Keck - founder of The Onion Mike McCready - Pearl Jam Wunderground is already in the kitchens and breakrooms of the campuses of two of the biggest tech companies in the world. Learn more about Wunderground Coffee at?https://lnkd.in/gYVqqXKi. #equitycrowdfunding #riseupcrowdfunding #wunderground

I'm really glad to see the biggest financial institution in the world stand up for #DEI just like we are doing at https://lnkd.in/g2XnXUte in collaboration with The Coca-Cola Company. #cococola #chase #riseupcrowdfunding https://lnkd.in/gQar3NiY