HomeFree-USA and Rocket Mortgage have strengthened their ongoing partnership. With this partnership, HomeFree-USA's flagship education enterprise, the Center for Financial Advancement®, will continue to offer financial literacy and career preparation courses at six historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Rocket Companies has partnered with HomeFree-USA to build a pipeline of talent to hire diverse new hires.

"Diversity, equity and inclusion are core tenets of our culture '€“ existing beyond the lens of homeownership by informing everything we do and every space our organization touches," said Trina Scott, Chief Diversity Officer for Rocket Companies. "This expanded partnership will provide Black and other students of color with financial education programming and training, as well as allow them to access meaningful opportunities to join our organization in whatever role best suits their talents and skillsets."

"Partnering with companies like Rocket Mortgage allows us to continue this important work of diversifying talent in corporate America while providing much-needed financial literacy to our students at historically Black colleges and universities," said Marcia Griffin, President and CEO of HomeFree-USA. "Very few mortgage and real estate finance corporations and financial institutions have internship programs that aggressively recruit directly from HBCUs. This must change. Students at historically black colleges and universities are among the best America has to offer."