{"id":29759,"date":"2021-04-05T09:18:14","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=29759"},"modified":"2021-04-05T09:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:22:21","slug":"michael-jordan-launching-grant-program-to-assist-black-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/michael-jordan-launching-grant-program-to-assist-black-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan launching grant program to assist Black communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Jordan will launch a community grants program for social organizations assisting Black communities through his apparel brand<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p><p>Through his Jordan brand company, the basketball icon will offer social organizations funds from a $1 million community&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.nike.com\/news\/michael-jordan-jordan-brand-black-community-commitment-community-grants-program\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grant program<\/a>&nbsp;to help meet objectives in combating issues that plague Black communities.<\/p><p>Firms with budgets of $3 million or less will be considered for the grants with the deadline for applications set at April 30.<\/p><p>Non-profit group Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors is coordinating the program, which will distribute money from Jordan brand\u2019s&nbsp;$100 million pledge&nbsp;to fight racism and income inequality.<\/p><p>Jordan\u2019s brand joined top companies who donated funds to the Black community following a series of high-profile police killings in 2020, including George Floyd\u2019s death. \u201cSince announcing our commitment to the Black Community in June of 2020, we\u2019ve been focused on two things\u2014action and impact,\u201d Jordan brand president Craig Williams said in a statement. \u201cWe know that when we create positive change for the Black Community, there is a benefit for almost every other group.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan will launch a community grants program for social  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":29731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[4584,4583],"class_list":["post-29759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-black-communities","tag-michael-jordan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29760,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29759\/revisions\/29760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}