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Salman Ravala is an Attorney and an Economist, and the Founder and CEO of Dollar-A-Day Scholarship Fund, Inc. A former visiting legal scholar at the United Nations office of Legal Affairs, Mr. Ravala most recently served as the Ariane de Rothschild fellow for Dialogue and Social Entrepreneurship at Columbia University. He can be contacted at [email protected].
In a January 1943 published letter which would ultimately lead to the creation of the historic United Negro College Fund (UNCF), Dr. Frederick Patterson of Tuskegee University wrote that the “nominal contribution of one dollar per person” could be enough to help improve the educational standards of young disenfranchised African-American children around the United States for generations to come.
