Colom
Projects: The Innocence Project
We have donated to the Innocence Project to aid them in their struggle to free the unjustly imprisoned. Colom Foundation funding is also being used to found a chapter at the University of Mississippi School of Law.
First
Book
The Colom
Foundation is working with national non-profit First Book to
put books into the hands of needy children.
Boys
and Girls Club Investment Clubs
We are working
through the Boys and Girls Clubs of Mississippi to teach
children the
basics of money management. Greatest
Dad Contest
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Cumulus
Broadcasting and The Colom Foundation held this contest
to recognize the Greatest Dads in the Golden Triangle. Political
Symposium at the University of Mississippi
The
Colom Foundation and the University of Mississippi held a symposium on race relations in the South.
Holly Springs
Civil Rights Reunion
In Sept. 2003, we
helped to organize a reunion of civil rights workers
who came to Mississippi
in the 1960s. African-American
Archive Project
In summer 2003, the
Foundation launched a project to add African-American
cultural material to
the archives in the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library. MLK Day
Celebration
We worked with civil leaders
in Columbus, Miss., to increase the spirit of inclusiveness
of the
2005 MLK Day celebration.
Colom
Fellowship
The foundation sponsors young
African politicians who visit the U.S. to
gain firsthand knowledge
of how our political process works.
Simon of
Cyrene Statue at Oakwood College
The Foundation
helped Oakwood College erect its first statue in over 105 years.
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