{"id":282534,"date":"2022-11-10T03:35:11","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=282534"},"modified":"2022-11-20T03:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T03:44:50","slug":"a-new-partnership-involving-nfl-vet-aims-to-help-black-hoosiers-get-jobs-in-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-new-partnership-involving-nfl-vet-aims-to-help-black-hoosiers-get-jobs-in-tech","title":{"rendered":"A new partnership involving NFL vet aims to help black Hoosiers get jobs in tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; A movement is now underway to add 41,000 new tech workers in Indiana by the year 2030 in order to help employers find, attract and retain talent. Launch Mission41K has caught the attention of former NFL player and current Indiana resident Emil Ekiyor. &#8220;Once I retired, one of the things I left with was how well that industry developed talent,&#8221; Ekiyor said. Ekiyor played for the Raiders and Falcons over his six-year career. He&#8217;s now the CEO and Founder of Innopower Inc. which focuses on accelerating economic productivity in black communities. Credit: Nicole Griffin Emil Ekiyor, CEO &amp; Founder of Innopower Inc. &#8220;So the entire model of the NFL is predicated on getting talent from the poorest black communities in our country, every young black kid from those communities feels like if they work hard and believe in themselves, they can make it to the NFL and they&#8217;re willing to do whatever it takes to make it.&#8221; Ekiyor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movement is now underway to add 41,000 new tech workers in Indiana by the year 2030 in order to help employers find, attract and retain talent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nfl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}