OF NOTE
A Monthly Update from The Nellie Mae Education Foundation
School but with "Use Your Voice" spray-painted on the windshield.
Photo by Stephen Harlan on Unsplash
As we enter the final weeks of 2021, we at Nellie Mae want to continue uplifting our grantees and partners who are doing the systemic work of ensuring that all young people, especially Black, Brown, and Indigenous young people, feel safe and included in schools.
WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!
What does effective communications mean to you? Nellie Mae would like to hear how you have experienced our communication channels, including what you think is working well and what you would like us to change. Send us your feedback today!
WHEN WHITE TEARS ARE HELD IN HIGHER REGARD THAN BLACK LIFE
Nellie Mae Interim President and CEO Dr. Gislaine N. Ngounou writes "it is hard to decouple the injustices of the criminal punishment system steeped in anti-Blackness from attacks on public education and real threats to democracy. It is no surprise that the U.S. has, for the first time, been added to the list of "backsliding democracies" by the International IDEA think tank." Read more below on the call for funders to get off the sidelines and fight for Black life.
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