To be admitted into the Unlocked Futures program, applicants must have fully operational businesses. “We come in when you’ve established your proof point, you have your model built and you're ready to figure out sustainability, growth, and measurement and expansion,” says Tulaine Montgomery, a managing partner at New Profit.
Participants are each awarded a $50,000 unrestricted grant. Hodge, whose first business venture upon releasethat helps formerly incarcerated people reenter the workforce, says that many returning citizens are unable to gain access to growth capital because of their criminal history. She put her $50,000 from Unlocked Futures toward performing user surveys and designing the algorithm for her background screening platform. In July, Hodge participated in the, which backs founders who are building technology aimed at solving social and environmental problems.
Through this program, she was able to raise another $500,000 from the Motley Fool, American Family Life Insurance and others. Now in the seed stage, her goal is to raise $2 million by the end of the first quarter of FY 2020. “It’s certainly a challenge to be a black woman raising money, not to talk of being formerly incarcerated,” Hodge says. “But we know that we have a solid business model because there’s a strong upside for investors.”
He is trying to get attention very sad
Good for John wannabe Legend. He & his no talent wife can start by hiring more nannies, staff for their mansions & make up/hair entourage.
There used to be a bond program
Why did he change his surname from Stephens to LEGEND? The self righteousness this fool has
Then stop being a partisan bitch johnlegend & join Trump in real, impactful change, the President who is ACTUALLY helping!!
How about just get rid of the criminal background check, and if a person doesn't have any violent crimes, identity theft, on their records make it where they can't be denied a job opportunity.
Apparently he hasn't read the news, realDonaldTrump is already doing that John Boy! sticktomusic
Thank you very much John legend so many of the people’s that have criminal records was falsely arrested falsely accused and had all those prejudices witches and corrupt legal systems against them. Giving them a job will allow them to be able to take care of themselves thanks.
Crime is increased by unemployment. Solution: employment and better lifestyle.
He means he would like to be more like Kanye but he isn’t nor will be!
Too bad there won’t be any jobs when the recession hits and the rest of the jobs disappear due to automation. Nice of him to try, though.
A better more accurate headline would have been “John Legend wants to help criminals get jobs near you” 🤣😂
Great! Start hiring Veterans who are released! johnlegend
Lol
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