Carter G Woodson Annual Report

MESSAGE FROM

WOODSON PRESIDENT

Greetings, M y name is Arlington W. Davis III, and I am honored to have served as the President of the Carter G. Woodson Scholarship and Community Service Foundation Inc. (CGW) for the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 fiscal years. In keeping with our outstanding former Presidents and Board of Directors, I have enjoyed carrying the torch of success in my role as leader of this organization. CGW is a completely volunteer organization and I sincerely express my gratitude to and for our dedicated Board of Directors and members of the Foundation. Additionally, as similarly stated by our former Presidents, CGW would not be the outstanding organization that it is without the support and financial assistance of our wonderful sponsors, donors, and contributors. On behalf of the Foundation, We Thank You! D uring my tenure as President, we experienced a once in a hundred-years Global Pandemic, COVID-19. ThisGlobal Pandemic inherentlycausedsignificant challenges for the world, including but not limited to, the intensification of health, economic, environmental, and educational disparities among people of color and our traditionally under-served communities. CGW has and continues to meet the challenges required to overcome the impact of this once in a hundred-year phenomena. As a result, we developed alternatives that would facilitate the challenges involved with this pandemic. For example, we:

“CGW has and continues to meet the challenges required to overcome the impact of this once in a hundred-year phenomena. “

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