A report from the Democracy Collaborative by Emily Sladek shows how six universities, Buffalo State College, University of Missouri–St. Louis, Rutgers University–Newark, Cleveland State University, Drexel University, and Virginia Commonwealth University have kept their promise and committed to investing, hiring and purchasing locally, tracking the economic impact of their initiatives.
While one has been supporting and incubating small local businesses owned by minorities and women, another created a jobs training program in construction for formerly incarcerated residents. Those and many more were also tracked through a shared dashboard and data collection process for transparency.
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