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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Annie Ma and Thalia Beaty

US companies, nudged by Black employees, have stepped up donations to HBCUs

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

Natalie Coles will never forget receiving an unexpected phone call in 2020. On the line was Virginia-based Dominion Energy, offering to give money to Wilberforce University, the small historically Black college where she is in charge of fundraising.

The company’s $500,000 donation went in part toward laptops and hot spots for students when the pandemic shut down the college’s campus outside of Dayton, Ohio.

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