Fearless Fund, Black
Here's What the Fearless Fund Settlement Means for DEI Efforts Nationwide
The Fearless Fund's year-plus-long fight against an anti-DEI lawsuit is over -- and its grant program for Black women entrepreneurs has ceased. Here's what that could mean for the DEI landscape.
Nonprofits, Legal Experts React to the Fearless Fund Decision to Shutter Grant Program to Black Entrepreneurs
The settlement of a case that would have tested whether charities can make grants based on race — and perhaps put the decision before the Supreme Court — has left the issue in a legal gray zone.
Fearless Fund settles with DEI foes, ends grant program for Black women
The deal marks a setback for diversity, equity and inclusion advocates, who saw the lawsuit as an attack on efforts to address racial disparities in investment.
Fearless Fund settles DEI fight and shuts down grant program for Black women
Fearless Fund is ending its Fearless Strivers grant program for Black women to settle a closely watched case challenging corporate DEI efforts.
Fearless Fund drops grant program for Black women business owners in lawsuit settlement
A venture capital firm has closed down a grant contest for Black women business owners as part of a settlement agreement with a conservative group that had filed a lawsuit alleging the program was discriminatory,
Fearless Fund ends program for Black women, settling discrimination lawsuit
Fearless Fund, a venture capitalist firm that invests in female entrepreneurs of color, has ended a grant program for Black women to settle a discrimination lawsuit.
Fearless Fund Ends Grant Program For Black Women After Settlement With Conservative Group, CEO Arian Simone Says It’s A ‘Win’
Fearless Fund has agreed to end a small business grant contest for Black women after a settlement with a conservative group.
Fearless Fund Ends Grant Program for Black Women Entrepreneurs Amid Legal Pressure
Fearless Fund, a venture capital firm supporting Black women entrepreneurs, has settled a lawsuit with a conservative group by shutting down its Strivers Grant Contest, which awarded US$20,000 grants to Black women-owned businesses.
Fearless Fund ends its grant program for Black women to settle lawsuit
Right-wingers who sued to stop a grant program for Black women — and diversity efforts more broadly — notched a win as the fund agreed to shut down the program.
Venture capital fund ends grant program supporting Black women after lawsuit
An Atlanta-based venture capital fund on Wednesday agreed to stop operating a program that awarded grants to small businesses run by Black women to settle a lawsuit by an anti-affirmative action group that claimed it discriminated based on race.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy1d
What the Fearless Fund Settlement Means for Philanthropic Freedom
A notable defeat for DEI occurred last week when the Fearless Foundation, the charitable arm of the Fearless Fund ...
Fearless Fund CEO Arian Simone on why she sees legal settlement as a win and what's next
Despite agreeing to shut down the Strivers Grant Contest, CEO Arian Simone says the Fearless Fund remains committed to ...
JD Supra1d
Fearless Fund Settles: Settlement Will Shape Law on Race-Based Grantmaking in Eleventh Circuit While Leaving Issue Unresolved Nationally
Over the last year, we have monitored a lawsuit in Georgia that alleged a hedge fund (“Fearless Fund”) violated 42 U.S.C. § ...
The Root on MSN5d
The Black Woman-Led Fearless Fund Battle Reaches a Heartbreaking End
The legal battle between Fearless Fund and a conservative anti-woke-anti-DEI-anti-everything-else group has come to a ...