L+M grantee NYC Urban Debate League’s students working together last year With everything going on at the moment, I think it’s more important than ever to shine a light on some of the positive things going on in our community. Therefore, I wanted to take a moment and acknowledge the amazing efforts of [...]
(L – R) Some of The Carolina team, including Eric Calabrese, Mark Trashaj, Jeannine Britt and Josh Elkin We shared a story on our website last week about Jeannine Britt – one of our local hires from Essex Crossing. Through our partnership with the Lower East Side Employment Network (LESEN), Jeannine is now a full-time [...]
Planning students Eboni Senai Hawkins and Sean Dajour Smith are the Weitzman School's first Moelis Scholars The University of Pennsylvania kicked off the inaugural Moelis Scholars Program earlier this year. The program aims to support African American and Latinx students who are thinking about pursuing careers in housing, community and economic development. UPenn, [...]
This week I met the third cohort of the Ron Moelis Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship at a networking breakfast at John Jay College. The Fellowship, which was established in 2017, aims to connect John Jay students with the most socially responsible, innovative companies in New York City as well as a wider community of practice. The [...]
Together with the leadership of School District 1 Community Schools, Delancey Street Associates (DSA) crafted the City Seekers program. The program engaged local schools and encouraged some of their students to discover their own neighborhood in Lower Manhattan. DSA, a joint venture of L+M Development Partners, Taconic Investment Partners, BFC Partners, the Prusik Group and [...]
For the past six years, I have proudly sponsored the MBA Impact Investing Network & Training (MIINT) program at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. MIINT attracts bright young minds from around the world to participate in a year-long program where they learn about social and environmental impact investing, an inspiring concept to me [...]
One of the things in this business that really inspires me is the entrepreneurial ideas that people develop to support their communities. Take Harlem Capital Partners for example - a young venture capital firm based out of Harlem. I met with them recently for VICE TV’s program Hustle, and they pitched me to come on [...]
Photo courtesy of the Washington University School of Medicine Image: Sandy Loewentheil (L), Ting Wang, PhD (C) and Karen Loewentheil (R) My L+M co-founder Sandy and I have always shared a commitment to investing in our communities, and I was excited to hear that he and his wife have recently endowed a new professorship at [...]
Recently The Today Show featured a story about Steven Pacheco, one of the inaugural Moelis Social Entrepreneurship Fellows. Steven is a member of the team that won the 2018 Echoing Green’s The Future of Work Social Innovation Challenge for their app, CONNECTr. The team designed the app, which I’ve mentioned on this blog before, to [...]
Joseph Mahmud and Steven Pacheco present CONNECTr, an app to assist formerly incarcerated with employers, at John Jay College in New York City. Last year on this blog I mentioned that I’ve partnered with John Jay College to create the Ron Moelis Social Innovation Fellowship. The Fellowship is meant to support students who [...]