It's one thing to have a brilliant business idea, but quite another to see it materialize profitably. Many entrepreneurs face hurdles obtaining funding from traditional lenders, and cannot afford business advice from proven experts. This predicament is especially true for women and ethnically-diverse small business owners. To counteract the problem, UBS launched a much-lauded, philanthropic program called Elevating Entrepreneurs.
The initiative serves under-resourced, high-potential companies by connecting them with people to help grow their businesses. The bank's financial advisors partner with other industry professionals, forming teams who volunteer their time mentoring the program's recipients.
(RNS) — A new residential college at Yale University has been named for an Episcopal saint who was the first African-American woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest.
Anna Pauline Murray, known as "Pauli," was also a civil rights activist who helped shape the legal argument for the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling and a women's rights activist who co-founded the National Organization for Women. She received an advanced law degree from Yale in 1965 and an honorary doctorate from Yale Divinity School in 1979.
