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Dear friend, For the past two years, MBK Alliance has been proud to champion the work of our Impact and Seed Community partners. This week, we announced an additional $1 million investment to support their response to the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice. These organizations—19 nonprofits in 15 cities that won our inaugural MBK Community Challenge Competition—work to expand evidence-based initiatives that reduce youth violence, grow effective mentorship programs, and measurably improve the lives of boys and young men of color. In the wake of the disproportionate effect that COVID-19 and ongoing racial injustice is having on under-resourced Black and Brown communities, these high-performing organizations continue to meet their core operational goals to reduce barriers and expand opportunity for boys and young men of color and their families—but they didn’t stop there. In the face of so much uncertainty and overwhelming obstacles they took on even more.  Read our full announcement at Obama.org to learn more about how they stepped up and find ways to support these impact-oriented nonprofits. —Michael Michael D. Smith Executive Director, My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Obama Foundation