Peachtree Providence Partners founding member Milton H. Jones Jr. has been elected to chair the UNCF’s board of directors. The United Negro College Fund (UNCF), which has long been one of the premier organizations aimed at providing financial support for Black students attending Black colleges, announced that it has elected its first-ever Black board chairman.
The 77-year-old institution notes in its announcement that Atlanta business leader and civic activist Milton H. Jones Jr., a co-founding member of Peachtree Providence Partners Holding Company, had become the first African American to serve in that position.
Past board chairs have included late philanthropist John D. Rockefeller III; Michael H. Jordan, the late former chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo Worldwide Foods, and Jack Stahl, Revlon’s former president and chief executive officer.
