Employee Ownership Expansion Network Announces Hiring of First Director of State Center Operations
Share Article ARLINGTON, Va. (PRWEB) February 19, 2021 The Employee Ownership Expansion Network (EOX) is pleased to announce the hiring of Roy Messing as the Director of State Center Operations. In this role, Roy will play a key part in continuing EOX’s mission of expanding employee ownership across the United States by establishing and supporting a network of State Centers for Employee Ownership. Initially Roy will focus his attention on leading the effort to assist the board of directors of the four state centers opened by EOX in 2020, moving them from early organizational mode to a fully operational mode. His experience in creating programing and successful fundraising at the state level will be valuable to this effort.
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.