NoVo Foundation Makes Respectable $90M Investment in Girls and Women of Color
“While the concept for this project has been in the works since 2014, the need to focus on empowering girls and young women of color has been gaining momentum within the greater philanthropic world has grown in recent years. With black, Hispanic, and Native American girls all less likely to graduate from high school than their white counterparts and significantly more likely to live in poverty, missed educational opportunities and economic impediments propagate further inequality as the girls reach adulthood.”