The Buffalo Urban League (Buffalo, NY) has recruited a new president and CEO: Thomas Beauford Jr. will assume the post on Aug. 31.

Beauford comes to the agency with more than 20 years of strategic and operations management experience, primarily in the financial-services industry, most recently with M&T Bank, where he was a vice president in the risk management and regulatory affairs division.

Beauford takes over for Brenda McDuffie, who is retiring after 22 years at the helm, growing the agency to an annual budget of $6 million with an array of workforce development and education programs across the region.

Finch credited McDuffie for her longtime leadership at the agency. “It is important for us to build up on the tremendous legacy she has established,” he said.

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The Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis (St. Louis, MO) hosted another food drive for families in need.

At least 4,000 families were helped on Saturday. 

Saturday marked the 20th weekend distribution put on by the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis.

Each week they are packing vehicles all over the metro area full of food, toiletries, safety equipment, and other household items.

This week they’re also giving away school supplies.

Fox 2 and Kplr 11 want to help so General Manager Kurt Krueger presented a $15,000 check on behalf of the Nexstar Media Charitable Foundation to Urban League President and CEO Michael McMillan to help with the distribution efforts.

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2,000 boxes of produce were given to Louisville residents Saturday in the name of Breonna Taylor.

Tamika Palmer, Breonna Taylor’s mother said the service reflects who her daughter was.

“This is the type of stuff she lived for,” Palmer expressed. “To help anybody, so to do this in her honor, it just shows her character.”

The free farmers’ market was held in the Louisville Urban League’s parking lot. People were able to pick up produce boxes on a first-come, first-serve basis. Organizations like Until Freedom led the day.

“We’re also going door to door, we found some seniors who are immobile, we took boxes to them to drop it off,” Tamika Mallory, the Co-founder of Until Freedom explained. The group also said they visited the family of Trinity Randolph, the 3-year-old girl who was shot and killed Friday afternoon.