Jay-Z’s Shawn Carter Foundation Launches Empowering Financial Education Program At HBCUs
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The music icon's Champions for Financial Legacy program will kick off in the spring. Here are the historically Black universities that could benefit.
Jay-Z is breathing life into the curriculum of historically Black colleges and universities in a major way.
The Shawn Carter Foundation announced the launch of its Champions for Financial Legacy program Wednesday at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The financial education initiative will empower students at HBCUs and the surrounding communities by providing tools for managing personal finances in the real world.
The program will help improve students’ financial literacy and guide them to apply their knowledge to help build wealth in their communities.
Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, founded the Shawn Carter Foundation in 2003 with his mother, Gloria Carter.
“Every day at the Shawn Carter Foundation, we dedicate ourselves to uplifting students and communities that are underserved,” Gloria Carter said in a statement. “To launch a financial education program that will reach more students and communities, along with dedicated partners like Toyota and the Wharton School of Business, is a vision we are finally seeing come to fruition.”
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