Last week, Sen. Tim Scott made headlines in his rebuttal to the President’s State of the Union address when he declared that “America is not a racist country.” As Gerald Seib wrote in the Wall Street Journal this week, Sen. Scott’s remarks—and the swift rebuttal from others on both sides of the aisle, including my good […]
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Nearly a year ago, as the nation reckoned with the horrifying video of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, Alejandro Guerrero, a general partner at early-stage venture capital firm Act One Ventures, sat alone at his home in Los Angeles, coming to terms with what he had just seen and bracing for the fallout. “All the
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Business leaders hear a lot about disruption. But 2020 redefined the term. By March, the novel coronavirus had completely changed ways of life and work for billions of people. In May, the death of George Floyd produced an equally seismic shift in cultural awareness of systemic racism and set in motion urgent calls for racial equity—globally.
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Nathan Cummings frequently said that “nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.” That entrepreneurial guidance served us well in November 2017, when our Board took a major leap of faith to advance our mission of creating a more just, vibrant, sustainable, and democratic society. Breaking from foundations’ long standing
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