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Chicago elementary schools students receive world-class education ​

This June, twenty students from It Takes A Village Leadership Academy on Chicago’s South Side will travel to Kenya to see and experience the country’s culture firsthand and engage in a wide range of community service projects. ITAV’s World Scholars Program is just one of the ways the school provides its students with a world-class education. Chicago Crusader, the longest-running African American newspaper in the city, recently published an in-depth feature piece on the school’s unique and powerful programming. 

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Chicago-area athletes launch fintech project to revitalize communities

Walter Mendenhall IV (former NFL), Jarryd Loyd (former professional basketball) and Jewell Loyd (Las Vegas Aces, NBA) have partnered to bring Help With My Loan to Chicago, with the goal of using this highly-efficient, AI-powered financial platform to revitalize communities and create jobs for Black men and women as residential and commercial loan officers. Greg Palmer of Finovate has the story!

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NBC News Investigates Environmental Injustice in Mississippi

In a small, majority Black town in Mississippi, residents are sounding the alarm on Drax – the owner of a local wood-pellet plant –  for exposing them to dangerous levels of air pollution.

The Drax factory has been fined for exceeding its air-pollution permits, but still received federal subsidies to build more wood-pellet plants across the South.

Despite claims that burning wood pellets for power is climate-friendly, studies show it produces more greenhouse gasses than coal.

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A new model for climate philanthropy: Fund for Frontline Power

The 19th News Exclusive: The Fund for Frontline Power – a groundbreaking new model for climate philanthropy – announces its first $5 million in grants to 48 climate justice organizations across the country. Funding decisions are made by F4FP’s governing body, which is made up of grassroots climate justice leaders. The Solutions Project, the Climate Justice Alliance, and the People’s Climate Innovation Center co-created the fund to accelerate the “solidarity philanthropy” movement, where funders work in solidarity with grassroots leaders rather than making top-down decisions. The fund is supported by environmental foundations, big green groups, the sports industry, and the company Seventh Generation.

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