1,000 Scholars. $100K jobs.
$100M in economic mobility.
Year after year.
Three years ago, Greenwood Project generated about $5 million a year in new economic mobility. Today it is $20 million. Our five-year plan takes it to $50 million, and we are building toward $100 million a year flowing into families and communities that have been locked out of it.
Since 2016
Greenwood Project prepares Black and Latino college students for high-trajectory careers in financial services.
We find students before the finance recruiting window closes, train them for twelve months across three specialized Academies, and coach them one-on-one until they can compete. Then they apply, interview, and win roles on their own merits.
400 Scholars have come through the program. 88% transition into high-trajectory roles, and across all Scholars the average starting salary is $92,000.
“We don't place students. We prepare them to compete. When they do, they shift what success looks like for themselves, their families, and the industry.”
Named for a place that was built
Our name honors the community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Known as Black Wall Street, it had thriving restaurants, schools, hotels, grocery stores, movie theaters, and churches.
On May 31 and June 1, 1921, mobs of white residents, some of them deputized and armed by city officials, destroyed homes and businesses and murdered more than 300 Black residents.
The name Greenwood Project was chosen for our Scholars to carry on the legacy, spirit, and resilience of the people who created the self-sustaining Greenwood community so many years ago.