Thursday, August 01, 2013

Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Opportunity Funding Corp. Merge - Higher Education

Thurgood Marshall College Fund, Opportunity Funding Corp. Merge - Higher Education: In an effort to develop the next generation of African-American entrepreneurs from the HBCU community, the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) officially will merge today with the Opportunity Funding Corporation (OFC).

The joining of resources between the two organizations will provide students at TMCF’s member schools with opportunities they have yet to receive from other higher education organizations for innovation and the chance to contribute to the nation’s economy and evolving job market.

For 26 years, TMCF has focused its efforts on preparing future leaders by placing recent graduates from the nation’s public historically Black colleges and universities in jobs with some of the world’s largest and most well-known employers. But TMCF President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., acknowledged that the merger was an appropriate step for his organization, which supports and represents nearly 300,000 students, to take.