Jrue Holiday, His Wife Lauren Holiday Announce $1 Million Investment in Black-led Businesses

Jrue Holiday and his Olympic athlete wife Lauren are giving back. The Holidays announced back in May their commitment to give $1 million to Black-led organizations and businesses in several metro areas, including Milwaukee, New Orleans, Indianapolis and Los Angeles. This will be the second round of distributions from the Jrue Holiday and his wife Lauren, following their first round last fall.

Among the 50 grant recipients are seven local businesses and six local nonprofit organizations.

Via Biz Times:

“The Milwaukee-area businesses include PumpFive Fuel Delivery Service, Embody Yoga, Flora Fruit Co., HouseCall WI, ROCS Software, Sacha’s Veggie Life and Soul Brew Kombucha. The nonprofits include Adullam Outreach, African American RoundTable, Black Space, Future Urban Leadership Foundation, STRYV365 and Urban Underground. “

Not only a great game last night from @Jrue_Holiday11 but a shining example of what it means to be a leader in a community. Thank you – Local Black-led businesses, nonprofits get funding boost from Jrue and Lauren Holiday https://t.co/0qW1hwPyvk via @biztimesmedia

— Steve Zimmerman (@SpectrumSteve) July 2, 2021

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Jrue Holiday pledged $5.3 million from his 2019-20 NBA salary to establish the fund with the goal of combating systemic racism.

“We are so excited to announce the 2021 JLH Fund round 2 grantees and provide much needed funding to the businesses and nonprofits that need our support,” the Holidays said in a statement. “With the addition of coaching and training cohorts provided to the recipients, we also extend the extra resources needed to help them thrive. We look at all JLH Fund recipients as part of our extended family and we could not be more thrilled to be working with these businesses and nonprofits.”

Jrue is one game away from getting to the NBA Finals.

Great Karma for the Holidays.

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