{"id":283050,"date":"2026-05-07T16:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283050\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:56:07","slug":"thurgood-marshall-college-fund-board-of-directors-convene-at-texas-southern-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283050\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurgood Marshall College Fund Board of Directors convene at Texas Southern University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmcf.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thurgood Marshall College Fund<\/a> (TMCF) <a href=\"https:\/\/tmcf.org\/about-us\/board-of-directors\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Board of Directors<\/a> met in April in Houston at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsu.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Southern University<\/a> and completed several action items.<\/p>\n<p>The finance and audit committee approved the 2026 budget, while the full board affirmed the committee\u2019s approval.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One new board director was appointed by the governance committee\u2019s recommendation and the board\u2019s approval: Yoshika Rankin with Lowes for a one-year term to complete a previously occupied position\u2019s term.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An existing director was reappointed to new terms of office:<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey J. Hurd with Equitable, three years<\/p>\n<p>The board also made committee appointments. They are:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Walling, governance committee<\/p>\n<p>Theodore Colbert III, marketing committee<\/p>\n<p>Melonie Parker, development committee<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas Southern was an incredible setting to gather with the TMCF Board of Directors,\u201d Dr. Harry L. Williams, president &amp; CEO of TMCF, said. \u201cTMCF works hard and it\u2019s exciting to showcase the results of that hard work while continuing to set the path for the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other board news:<\/p>\n<p>Board members commended the work of the ad hoc development committees and their members\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Sandville, chief development officer at TMCF, informed the board of new partnerships with Re:wild, Beam Suntory, Alper Skyland and the Ecology Wildlife Foundation<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Williams presented the president\u2019s report, including a focus on the new TMCF and framing a mission-first business model, as well as an organizational update<\/p>\n<p>Racquel Oden, chairwoman of the TMCF Board of Directors, provided her report as chair<\/p>\n<p>Impact reports from each TMCF vertical\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Google presented a report on the state of generative AI<\/p>\n<p>A special presentation for years of service was presented to board director Collis Jones (John Deere)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The board approved changes to the bylaws as it relates to directors\u2019 financial contributions\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming board meetings will take place Oct. 6-7 in New York City and April 12-13, 2027 at Hampton University. The board will also meet Oct. 2, 2027, in New York City, coinciding with TMCF\u2019s 40th Anniversary Gala.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) Board of Directors met in April in Houston at Texas Southern University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-283050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}