Now with Zip Run, they will enrich where they come from by employing and empowering people from their community to prevent the continuation of an inequitable status quo.
I’ve always had this idea to create something that I could monetize. I’ve tried making a board game, making my own hair brush, making a car wash, anything to make some cash. Until one day I was brainstorming my strengths and weaknesses.
"I want to give people the ability to create their own money. That's freeing, and when you can free yourself like that, then you can do whatever God put you here to do."
In his new book Jacob’s Ghetto, author Travis Peagler tells the story of a young artistic African American boy who sets his sights on winning a lucrative writing competition in hopes of escaping the ghetto he never wanted to call home.