awards celebration dinner
Community Is a Verb Awards
Closing Remarks, Chastity Lord, JP President & CEO
The Community Is a Verb Awards Celebration Dinner honors corporate and civic leaders who are making intentional investments that drive economic mobility for lower-income families and children.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Let’s focus on the word: bends. It’s not passive. We must do the pulling.
Congratulations to Ulta Beauty, New York Life Insurance Company, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, and San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones. We appreciate your investments in single mothers and their families.
Honorees
Ulta Beauty
We are proud to shine a light on Ulta Beauty’s commitment to leveraging the power of beauty to drive social progress and impact for women and teens. We are inspired by investments such as Ulta’s career exploration campaign for the beauty industry and its Associate Relief Program, which supports associates in need when their families face unforeseen hardships.
New York Life Insurance
New York Life Insurance Company’s contributions to lower-income single moms and children, as well as the broader community, have been significant and worthy of amplification. We honor their dedication to children experiencing grief and loss, and we celebrate their guidance for single parents through curated financial and life insurance tips expressly for this group.
Mayor Andre Dickens
Atlanta, GA
Mayor Dickens’ outsized commitment to authoring policies that reduce poverty is having a direct impact on the 43% of Atlanta’s families that are headed by single mothers, many of whom are experiencing poverty. We would like to recognize Mayor Dickens and the City of Atlanta’s commitment to empowering economic mobility through the Women in Technology (WIT) Single Mothers Program and the $5 billion Reinvestment Plan, which directly supports affordable housing, grocery store access, trails, and more.
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones
San Antonio, TX
We are pleased to celebrate Mayor Ortiz Jones and the City of San Antonio’s commitment to creating policies that improve conditions for the nearly 53% of families led by single mothers and families experiencing poverty. We celebrate Mayor Ortiz Jones’ leveraging of public and private partnerships to rally the business community to fill the gap during the suspension of SNAP funding—a strategy that should not only be celebrated but also replicated.
guest speaker
Dr. Janice Johnson Dias
John Jay College
Dr. Janice Johnson Dias, Associate Professor of Sociology and graduate faculty in criminal justice at John Jay College, centers her research on mothers and children experiencing poverty. Here, she explores the meaning of “Community Is a Verb” through a social scientist’s lens.
Sponsors
