INCLUSIVE GROWTH ADVISORY COUNCIL LISTENING SESSIONS BY THE NUMBERS To ensure our investments are guided by • More than 50 listening sessions those in the Black community, we have enlisted the support of an advisory council of notable • Reached nearly 20,000 Black business and community leaders across Black women and girls sectors to help shape, guide, and support the initiative. See more on the individuals supporting • Co-hosted by 10 Black our work to radically transform the future of Black women-led organizations women and the community overall. “Through the listening sessions, KEY PARTNERS we’ve heard from Black women Implementing Partner all over the country. These LISTENING AND LEARNING Organizations: In addition to women are building nonpro昀椀t To uphold our commitment to support and guidance from organizations and companies with listening to the communities we across our advisory council, their personal savings and loans seek to support before taking we partnered with 10 Black from family members because action, we connected with Black women-led organizations they care so deeply about their women across the country, across the country to design communities. I am so pleased soliciting their perspectives on and implement One Million that we are able to support these challenges that could be solved Black Women. phenomenal women, and we with investment capital. can see how transformative their initiatives and projects can be.” DR. RUTH J. SIMMONS Black Women’s Roundtable, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation President, Prairie View A&M University and One Million Black Women Advisory Council Member “In addition to access to capital, we have to provide Black women with a safe space to learn Delta Sigma Theta Sigma Gamma Rho Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. Sorority Inc. Sorority Inc. and grow. This is why I am so proud to be a member of the advisory council. I look forward to sharing the lessons that I’ve learned as an entrepreneur, as well as growing and evolving Alpha Kappa Alpha with the women in this community.” National Council Power Rising Sorority Inc. of Negro Women AYESHA CURRY Entrepreneur, TV Host, and Restaurateur and One Million Black Women Advisory Council Member Walker’s Legacy Sistahs in Business The Links Inc. Sustainability Report 2021 Foundation Expo Inclusive Growth | One Million Black Women 5656