- July 28, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
A group of local companies has come together to support a new initiative that looks at diversity and equity in the business community.
Monteith Construction Corp., Live Oak Bank, nCino, LS3P Associates Ltd., Novant Health, Atlantic Packaging, Zimmer Development Co. and the Camp Schreiber Foundation, are backing the Initiative 1897, the first public project coming out of ThoughtBox.
ThoughtBox is a nonprofit think tank co-founded in 2019 by Monteith CEO John Monteith and Susie Sewell, according to a recent news release.
“ThoughtBox is about adding in the concept of justice to our philanthropic thinking,” Sewell, executive director of Camp Schreiber Foundation and ThoughtBox COO, said in the release. “We weren’t entirely sure what ThoughtBox would grow into, but it was created as a vehicle to address the systemic issues facing our community, rather than treat the symptoms.”
Initiative 1897 is a project to bring together…
