Aisha Nyandoro, founder and chief executive of Springboard to Opportunities, works at her office in Jackson. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post) A nonprofit called Springboard to Opportunities, is giving 20 Black single mothers a year of universal basic income, $1,000 a month – and it has helped support major improvements to their lives.
The program is in Jackson, Mississippi. It originally helped low-income people write resumes and workforce development, but Aisha Nyandoro, who helped to establish the Jackson-based program, realized that no matter what Springboard offered, her mothers still couldn’t afford the basics.
When Nyandoro teamed up with Facebook co-founder Chris […]
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