Hakluyt varieties new philanthropic partnership with The Opportunity Community
LONDON, July 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Hakluyt, the strategic advisory business for corporations and buyers, is delighted to announce a new philanthropic partnership in the US with The Possibility Network (OppNet), a non-earnings organisation based mostly in New York City, which connects college students from traditionally and systematically underrepresented communities with faculty, internship, and job alternatives, and with private and qualified networks.
Hakluyt has been connected with OppNet for a number of a long time, and has now come to be 1 of the organisation’s 11 Corporate Customers. As very well as giving monetary assistance, workers in Hakluyt’s North American enterprise are functioning with younger individuals collaborating in OppNet’s programmes, to support them build a broad vary of expertise and options, attain their objectives, and make flourishing occupations in the area of their option.
Varun Chandra, who has a longstanding particular association with OppNet and is Chair Emeritus of the organisation’s Associate Board of Directors, stated: “OppNet is a extraordinary, revolutionary organisation, relentlessly concentrated on the top quality of its programmes and tangible, measured results. I have experienced the privilege of doing the job with Jessica and the group for several many years to aid the most superb, talented college students accomplish their prospective, and I’m so delighted that this relationship has evolved into a whole philanthropic partnership with Hakluyt starting to be a Company Supporter. We – possibly extra than most – recognize the energy of networks, and everyone at Hakluyt is happy to aid OppNet’s mission of closing the prospect hole and creating a fairer and much more equivalent earth.”
Mark Hanson, who potential customers Hakluyt’s North American business, commented: “I have enormously loved meeting and working with some excellent OppNet Fellows, and I seem forward to observing them construct effective and fulfilling lives in the years to arrive. I know the full team in Hakluyt’s North American enterprise is thrilled to be concerned in OppNet’s exceptionally crucial work, and to be contributing to the improvement of these outstanding youthful people.”
Jessica Pliska, Co-Founder of OppNet and Head of Leadership Supplying, included: “The do the job that OppNet does to handle the chance gap in the US has by no means been extra vital or extra urgent. We are very grateful to Hakluyt for its enable in developing new communities and networks that are actively pursuing social justice and equality, in which younger people today can freely build their have route to enduring accomplishment.”
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Hakluyt is a strategic advisory firm that functions with company leaders and buyers around the world on their most crucial professional troubles. For extra details on Hakluyt, please go to www.hakluytandco.com.
The Option Network ignites the drive, curiosity and company of underrepresented pupils on their paths to and by means of school and into thriving occupations. For more data on The Possibility Community, you should take a look at www.opportunitynetwork.org.