Of Note: 17 March 2021
Barnes Fund, Blacks in Technology Foundation, Evolution Event Solutions, Maple Ridge Events, National Seating and Mobility announce updates
Two local Black-owned technology businesses have partnered to launch a Nashville chapter of the Blacks in Technology Foundation.
Holly Rachel and Lena Winfree, the co-founders of Rachel + Winfree Consulting, and Calvin Foster and Trevor Guinn, who founded The Black.Codes, are taking the lead in setting up the group, which aims to grow the number of Black people in tech and help those already in the industry advance.
Membership in BiT is free and many of the group’s training programs are free or subsidized by sponsors, which include Disney, Citi and Kronos. The BiT Foundation also funds for technical certifications and nano-degree programs, technical apprenticeships, contract-to-hire programs, IT subsidies for low-income households and soft skills training.
Delayed by Metro s Barnes Fund cuts, developer halts affordable housing project
Development won t move forward due to complications and delays of securing the land after their award was impounded
authors Alejandro Ramirez Councilmember Colby Sledge says he has never seen anything like it before: A developer has returned a grant that would have helped build affordable housing.
Pathway Lending returned a nearly $1.7 million Barnes Housing Trust Fund award that would have helped build The Rosemary, a complex with 80 units of affordable housing for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with 60 of those apartments specifically slated for seniors. The project was a
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Demonstrators gathered at a 2019 rally protesting Metro s impounding of the Barnes FundPhoto: Matt Masters Councilmember Colby Sledge says he has never seen anything like it before: A developer has returned a grant that would have helped build affordable housing.
Pathway Lending returned a nearly $1.7 million Barnes Housing Trust Fund award that would have helped build The Rosemary, a complex with 80 units of affordable housing for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, with 60 of those apartments specifically slated for seniors. The project was a collaboration with Friends Life Community, an organization that provides programming and services for teens and adults with developmental disabilities.