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Wall Street Project Historical Timeline
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2001
Rainbow/Push Coalition launches financial literacy
initiative— One Thousand Churches Connected
Opens the Wall Street Project Texasin
Houston
Rainbow/Sports division secures capital
from Dr.Pepper for minority-owned racing team and driver,a
first in NASCAR history
WSP establishes an Insurance Industry
Think Tank
Congress passes the New Markets Initiative
Legislation
AOL Time Warner announces its I-Deal
Flow venture capital forum at the4th Annual Wall Street
Project conference.
MTP releases its second study: Status
and Future of Media andTelecommunications in Urban America:Gaps,Growth
and Opportunities. |
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2002
Travelers offering served as one of
the most inclusive offerings to date—out of 52
banks, 21 minority-owned banks participated in the syndicate,
along with 4 co-managers
Toyota presents details of $7.8 Billion
10-year diversity initiative
KPMG engages in a 5-year impact analysismeasuring
the value of the WSP and diversity best practices
NFL players engage in one-day financial
literacy workshop at NYSE
$38 million New Markets Initiative fund
dedicated to investment in underserved communities in
Appalachia |
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2003
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition partners with the Urban
League and SCLC to submit an amicus brief
before the United States Supreme Court to help preserve
affirmative action
After several years of promoting economicgrowth
in Harlem, General Motors launchesits plans
for a Harlem Auto Mall—the first dealership,
let alone auto mall, north of 96th Street in over 40
years, which will bring over 200 new jobs and millions
of dollars in investment
WSP hosts a corporate governance forum in
New York with special keynote speaker Commissioner Roel
Camposf the Securities Exchange Commission
New York Life slects a diverse financial
services firm as one of its five co-managers for its
$1 billion, 30-year surplus notes offering |
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2004
The Boeing Prime Opportunities Fund. In
mid-June 2004, the Boeing Company announce decision to
allocate $1 billion of its pension fund assets to emerging
investment managers.
General Electric Company leadership,
inspired, in part, by Reverend Jackson’s call for
increased investment by majority firms with minority
investment managers, organized a meeting at GE headquarters
of minority managers with key GE investment decision
makers in Spring 2004. Relationships struck there
have resulted in new businers for some of the Project’s
constituency.
Williams Capital and Blaylock Partners serve
as book runners on $750 million GE financing. Williams
Capital leadership attribute this new business to the
meeting of minority managers held on-site at GE in Spring
2004.
GM selects Arial as the first Minority Mid-Cap
Manager within its $20 billion defined contribution
plan. Arial prodcuts were also selected to be
part of GM’s 401 K. |
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2005
Met Life increased its partnership with Atlanta
Life’s Asset Management Unit by $50
million. Atlanta Life credits the work to the Wall
Street Project.
Google held a public offering of over 14,159,265 shares of Class A common stock, the pool of seven unwritiers acting as co-managers was Blaylock and Company, Inc.
One August 15, 2005, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. issued $800 M Notes with Utentdahl Capital and Ramirez & Co as Joint Lead Book-running Managers. Tranasaction also included Blaylock, Jackson Securities and Loop Capital Markets as Co-Managers. |
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