04090 L 03-04 Annual Report - The Dayton Foundation

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Charles & Barbara Jones
“When I [Charles] was a child, African-
Americans were prohibited from going
to public school with white students. So,
for high school, my parents sent me to
an African-American boarding school for
youth from small, Kentucky towns. The
school’s president created this wonderful
campus that exposed us to students
from multiple cultures.
“The experience enlarged my sense
of what the world is about. It is such a
small world. We are all interdependent.
“When college students take courses
outside of the United States and are exposed
to other cultures, it broadens their
thinking and our community, while
helping them to become successful,
contributing citizens.”
To perpetuate their beliefs, the Joneses created the
African-American World Affairs Fund in 1995, as part of
the African-American Community Fund, a component
fund group of The Dayton Foundation. The Joneses’
fund is set up to award scholarships to disadvantaged,
Dayton-area, African-American students, enabling
them to travel and study abroad.
Photo: An African-American student in Paris
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