Stacey Abrams, the voting rights champion from Georgia, will address about 700 Bowie State University graduates and their families Friday at the spring commencement.
Vista Equity founder, chairman, and CEO Robert F. Smith (Image: file)
Robert F. Smith gave a commencement address at Atlanta-based Morehouse College, announcing that he would wipe college debt obligations for approximately 400 students of the class of 2019. Morehouse College also reported that the gift became a catalyst to support more students through the Student Freedom Initiative.
“His personal gift of $50 million to help launch The Student Freedom Initiative was one of many that interconnect at the root of Smith’s philanthropic mission to uplift Black communities and provide the education and economic infrastructure to secure a solid future for generations of graduates to come,” Morehouse College said online.
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Nationwideâs Gale King Shares Lessons From Her Rise To The C-Suite In A Traditionally Male-Dominated World
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Gale King
While some may think the success of a company depends on its customers, Gale King, the chief administrative officer of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, attributes much of her businessâ growth to another group of stakeholders: its associates. During her eight-year tenure in the C-suite at Nationwide, King made inclusion, and documenting its contribution to the bottom line, a key part of the companyâs human resources strategy, and it paid off.
âWhat we have seen over the last eight years is that as our engagement increased, our inclusion index increased and our performance increased,â King says. âWeâve clearly been able to see that there was a direct correlation in having a culture that values all people and having everyone giving their best work to being included to the bottom line.â