Martin Whittaker on LinkedIn: JPMorgan Chase's $30 Billion Bet on Racial Equity with Brian Lamb

What is new here? Absolutely nothing. American companies run to the end of the educational and entrepreneurial success pipeline and compete to hire or do business with the best and the brightest. That approach will not improve the output of success pipeline. Every one of the Top 1000 companies in America should each select and adopt an inner city neighborhood, elementary school, middle school, and high school. Then these firms should send business teams into those schools to role model, train, and mentor parents, teachers, and students. Each company should setup Math Excellence Teams to focus on improving the quantitative skills of the entire student body. Each company should show the community what hard skills and soft skills. The corporate mentors need to specifically promote their own industry and job opportunities. The focus of their effort should be to PREPARE students and parents for success. Understand that what has been done so far has not made a major impact on lifting the Black Community so doing more of what doesn’t work will not help. Finally I’ll say our goals are too low. There are roughly 600,000 Black students in every public school grade. 87% of the 8th Graders perform below the proficiency standard in Mathematics. Fix that first.

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Aaron D Sims

Is there anything allocated towards financial literacy, education for inner city kids. To get them a better start and chance at level playing field?

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Rokan Hossain

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Perry Flemming

Great conversation

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Marilyn Johnson

We will move so much faster if we aren't all reinventing the wheel! We need a step change vs. incremental improvement. if you aren't already- i encourage all to join the CEO Action on D&I

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Kevin J. Bernstein

Thank you!

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Scott Carpenter

what technology are you using to measure the success of all your different initiatives across the country as it relates to helping the next generation earn a living wage?

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Amy Kalafa

28:43 - Using data to inform, listening to partners, subject matter experts, stakeholders...This conversation hit all the high level DEI talking points. I kept waiting for specific examples of projects, practices and programs. Where is all that money going to be spent?

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Loletha Saunders

Lola out!

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Loletha Saunders

What specific prescription can Brian suggest to quell my concerns that this presentation is nothing more than an invite to applaud a marketing strategy and be forced fed hero worship. Disappointed. Especially as time is of the essence.

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