Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure Joins the Board of My Brother’s Keeper Alliance
May 04 2015 - 2:30PM
Business Wire
Sprint pledges $5 million to expand education opportunities for
American youth
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure has joined the Board of Directors of
My Brother’s Keeper (MBK Alliance), a new independent nonprofit
organization aimed at eliminating opportunity and achievement gaps
for African American and Hispanic boys and young men of color.
President Barack Obama delivered remarks at the MBK Alliance launch
event, which was attended by CEOs from Fortune 50 companies,
entertainers, athletes, leading nonprofits, and current and former
government officials. Sprint (NYSE:S) also pledged $2 million and
approximately $3 million of in-kind donations to expand the
availability of critical broadband resources for students who need
access to a wireless network inside and outside the classroom.
“We are honored to welcome Mr. Claure to the
MBK Alliance Board of Directors. His leadership, entrepreneurial
spirit and commitment to serving and inspiring young adults will be
instrumental in our success.”
Joe Echevarria, MBK Alliance
Chairman
President Obama launched the My Brother’s Keeper initiative in
2014 and challenged communities, businesses and nonprofits to
expand opportunities for education, volunteerism, and jobs for all
youth, including African American and Hispanic boys and young men
of color. The program outlines important steps to connect young
people to mentoring, support networks, and to enable the skills
they need to work their way into the middle class.
“I’m a big believer in empowering young people with education
and technology so they can change their lives and change the world
for the better,” Claure said. “As a Latino and a Hispanic leader
who has been successful in starting and growing companies, I
understand the obstacles these boys and young men face. It’s an
honor for me and for Sprint to give back as we join with My
Brother’s Keeper. Everybody should have the opportunity to reach
their full potential.”
To help MBK expand the availability of critical broadband
resources, Sprint has pledged the following:
$1.4 million in wireless connectivity for New Jersey public
schools
- Sprint and the MBK Alliance will
partner to provide Internet access to NJ Public School students of
color for their after-school, weekend and summer programs.
- Through ConnectED – a joint initiative
with the White House and several leading corporations including
Sprint that enables wireless connectivity outside the classroom –
Sprint will provide 750 free lines of high-speed, broadband
Internet connections to the selected NJ Public School students over
a four year period.
$1.6 million in wireless connectivity for additional
schools:
- Sprint will also work with MBK to
identify an additional ConnectED recipient to receive a total of
850 free lines of service over a four year period.
Sprint is committed to building strong communities and
supporting programming for education, entrepreneurship and the
environment. Sprint has a long history of providing
telecommunications and Internet access services to schools and
through a combination of Sprint Foundation and technology support,
Sprint has provided more than $17 million toward K-12 education in
the past 10 years. In 2014, Sprint was honored by The Civic 50 as
one of the 50 most community-minded companies in the nation.
Claure has received numerous recognitions including being named
as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year. In 2005 Claure, along with Rupert
Murdoch, Nicolas Negroponte, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, co-founded
the ONE LAPTOP PER CHILD initiative, an organization focused on
empowering the world’s poorest children through education by
providing them with a rugged low-cost laptop.
About MBK Alliance
My Brother’s Keeper Alliance (“MBK Alliance”) aims to eliminate
the gaps in opportunity and achievement for boys and young men of
color – making the American dream available to all. In early 2014,
the White House launched the My Brother’s Keeper Initiative to
engage partners and stakeholders in that effort from both the
private and public sectors. MBK Alliance is an independent,
nonprofit organization created to advance progress in the private
sector, and catalyze a national ecosystem of support to help boys
and young men of color recognize their full potential through
strategic evidence-based interventions. MBK Alliance is a sponsored
project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
About Sprint
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company that
creates more and better ways to connect its customers to the things
they care about most. Sprint served nearly 56 million connections
as of Dec. 31, 2014, and is widely recognized for developing,
engineering and deploying innovative technologies, including the
first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in the United
States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin Mobile USA,
Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national and
international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past four years.
You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com or
www.facebook.com/sprint and www.twitter.com/sprint.
SprintDoug Duvall,
571-287-8153douglas.duvall@sprint.com
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