Charlotte Hornets pitch competition targets minority-owned businesses with $15K prize
Innovation Summit is the newest initiative from Hornets’ recently launched social justice platform.
Mert s Heart & Soul was one of the Black-owned restaurants to participate in the Charlotte Hornets Week of Service initiative that provided 2,020 meals to essential workers and families in need. Photo courtesy of Charlotte Hornets
January 21, 2021
Hornets Sports & Entertainment is accepting applications for its Innovation Summit, a new initiative to support minority-owned businesses. The summit is part of the organization’s social justice platform, which launched Monday to coincide with the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Businesses with at least 51% minority ownership can submit an application and one-minute video pitch for a chance to earn a $15,000 investment from the Charlotte Hornets Foundation. Submission deadline is Tuesday, Feb. 2. Apply here.
Lectures & learning
• Bon Vivant cooking school offers online cooking classes with
chef Tori Sellon. Upcoming classes include “Butternut Squash Lasagna” at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 22. $25.
• UC San Diego continues its weeklong series of virtual events focusing on service, dialogue and training through Jan. 23 as part of the
Martin Luther King Jr. Week of Service. Events include a Black-owned business panel Thursday, Jan. 21, a LGBTQIA+ community organization panel Friday, Jan. 22, and more. For more information and to register for the events, visit
• Adventures by the Book presents
“Book Bingo (New Year: New Reads)” at 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, online. The event will feature authors Kristina McMorris, Claire Fullerton, Ellen Meeropol, Marco Rafala, Deborah Goodrich Royce and Isla Morley. Free.
WATERLOO:
WATERLOO, Iowa (KWWL) The City of Waterloo is participating in the national Memorial to Lives Lost to COVID-19 by lighting the Riverloop Amphitheatre in amber at dusk on Tuesday.
Digital display signs at the Waterloo Center for the Arts and the Public Library will also pay tribute. A moment of silence is also planned at the beginning of Waterloo Mayor Quentin Hart s virtual discussion on health and wellbeing Tuesday night as part of a series of MLK Week of Service panel discussions in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As a community we have lost family members, friends and neighbors. Many are deeply grieving in private. The pandemic prevents us from wrapping our arms around each other in love and support, Mayor Hart said. Tonight, as we join millions across the country in (a) moment of unity, may it galvanize our commitment to care for one another.
Virtual service projects from Jan. 17 –
23 will bridge more than 1,000 students and 13 units across campus with neighboring communities through career and translation services, community workshops, and other events
After nearly a year of heightened community need in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and other challenges, the University of Chicago will expand its annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service into a full week of virtual service projects and events starting on Jan. 17.
The Week of Service presented by UChicago’s University Community Service Center (UCSC) within the Office of Civic Engagement in partnership with UChicago Laboratory Schools and UChicago Charter School will give local residents and community-based organizations an opportunity to take part in activities and support efforts ranging from resume review services from the University’s Office of Career Advancement to yoga and wellness classes with University students and faculty and staff from more