HireLevel powered by Extra Help, one of the region's largest female-owned payroll and workforce-management businesses, donated $1,265 to the Edwardsville-based Mannie Jackson Center for the Humanities Foundation.
The foundation works to promote understanding between people of different cultures, races and religions.
The donation came through the staffing company's #HireLevelDifference campaign, in which HireLevel "team members" donate to a different charity each month. The Mannie Jackson Center was the choice in November for the campaign.
Foundation Executive Director Ed Hightower is grateful for the donation. He said it's an investment in the center's core principles of respect, understanding and forgiveness.
"Our initiatives and projects would not be made possible without the support of organizations and residents throughout the community,” Hightower said in a news release.
Mannie Jackson was born in a railroad boxcar in Illmo, Missouri, and later moved to Edwardsville, where he did well at high school basketball. Jackson's success in the sport led him to play for the Harlem Globetrotters, a team he eventually bought after rising through the ranks to a top position in the corporate world at Honeywell.
In 2015, he opened the center, which includes a hotel, conference space and STEM center for teaching science, technology, engineering and math.
HireLevel powered by Extra Help has offices in nine states, according to its website.
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