(Visual description: An image of the front of Knight Theater slides in.)
(Uplifting music plays softly.)
Greg Olsen:
“Welcome to the 2024 Truist Foundation”
(Visual description: side-by-side videos of a diverse group of professionally-dressed people mingling in the lobby of Knight Theater play.)
Greg Olsen:
“Inspire Awards, celebrating change makers”
(Visual description: Signs celebrating finalists for the Inspire Awards. A group of people takes a selfie in front of them.)
Greg Olsen:
“brought together from all across the country.”
(Visual description: Greg Olson, former NFL player and current FOX NFL Analyst, is delivering this speech to the crowd at the Inspire Awards.)
Greg Olsen:
“Successful small businesses”
(Visual description: Videos of small business owners on the job, in blue-collar and white-collar settings.)
Greg Olsen:
“not only invigorate communities”
(Visual description: A small business owner walks in with a clipboard. Another small business owner claps and laughs at a meeting.)
Greg Olsen:
“but transform local economies and lay the groundwork”
(Visual description: A woman gestures in conversation. A computer shows the Just Economy Pledge screen on the NCRC website. A man speaks at a meeting.)
Greg Olsen:
“for a better future for all.”
(Uplifting music grows louder.)
(Visual description: A group of professionals put their hands together and raise them excitedly.)
(Visual description: A man illuminated by stage lights speaks into a microphone in front of a wall with the logo of the Truist Foundation and the Inspire Awards.)
(Visual description: A producer sits behind a switchboard showing camera views of Greg Olson speaking to a man.)
(Uplifting music grows quieter.)
Lynette Bell:
“Our goal with the Truist Foundation”
(Visual description: Close-up of the word “Inspire,” the logo for the Truist Foundation Inspire Awards.)
Lynette Bell:
“has always been to empower these nonprofits”
(Visual description: Lynette Bell, President of the Truist Foundation, is delivering this speech to the crowd at the Inspire Awards.)
Lynette Bell:
“to lead both within their communities”
(Visual description: A woman wearing safety goggles holds an onion up in a kitchen. Another woman is engaged in conversation.)
Lynette Bell:
“and beyond.”
(Visual description: In an office setting, a woman shares information as she gestures with her hands.)
(Visual description: A computer displays the Community Partner Resources page on the Start Small Think Big website. A man wearing a backpack walks outside.)
(Uplifting music grows louder.)
(Visual description: Greg Olson shakes Lynette Bell’s hand onstage at the Inspire Awards.)
(Visual description: Lynette Bell fist-bumps Bill Rogers, Chairman and CEO of Truist.)
(Uplifting music grows quieter.)
Bill Rogers:
“Together, we believe”
(Visual description: Bill Rogers fist-bumps Greg Olson.)
Bill Rogers:
“providing resources”
(Visual description: Bill Rogers is delivering this speech to the crowd at the Inspire Awards.)
Bill Rogers:
“and encouraging innovation, we can help build career pathways,”
(Visual description: A man raises his arm and smiles. A man looks on as a woman shows him her computer.)
Bill Rogers:
“we can strengthen small businesses,”
(Visual description: Side-by-side in the frame, videos of a man and a woman smiling at people off-screen.)
Bill Rogers:
“and we can create thriving communities.”
(Visual description: Two women embrace tightly. One woman shows another her phone.)
(Uplifting music grows louder.)
(Visual description: Greg Olson shakes the hand of a man. The man enters a room backstage at the Inspire Awards as a group of people rise to greet him.)
(Visual description: A man speaks to Denea Joseph of Immigrants Rising.)
Denea Joseph:
“Thank you so much. It is an honor, a privilege.”
(Visual description: Denea Joseph is delivering this speech onstage at the Inspire Awards after receiving a second-place grant of $150,000 and a trophy.)
Denea Joseph:
“This makes us that much more viable to continue this work”
(Visual description: A computer displaying the ImmigrantBizHub.)
Denea Joseph:
“and to continue to serve our community”
(Visual description: Denea Joseph shows a man her phone in a meeting room setting.)
Denea Joseph:
“so thank you.”
(Uplifting music increases in volume.)
(Visual description: A man visits ImmigrantBizHub Course Trainings on his computer and phone.)
Arturo Noriega:
“First, I’m incredibly grateful.”
(Visual description: A woman dances in a restaurant kitchen and winks at the camera.)
Arturo Noriega:
“Thank you, Truist, for stepping up and supporting the entire”
(Visual description: Arturo Noriega of Centro Community Partners gestures towards Bill Rogers as he delivers this speech on stage at the Inspire Awards after receiving a $250,000 first-place grant.)
Arturo Noriega:
“ecosystem of innovators.”
(Music increases in volume.)
(Visual description: A backstage room full of people claps for Arturo Noriega and a woman pats him on the back.)
(Music decreases in volume.)
Arturo Noriega:
“It should be in everybody’s reach,”
(Visual description: Arturo Noriega smiles as he’s led to the stage by a producer at the Inspire Awards.)
(Visual description: Arturo Noriega wipes away tears as Bill Rogers hands him a trophy on stage.)
Arturo Noriega:
“and if you come from a family”
(Visual description: Arturo Noriega speaks on stage at the Inspire Awards with Greg Olson, Lynette Bell, and Bill Rogers.)
Arturo Noriega:
“of entrepreneurs or immigrants that started generations ago,”
(Visual description: Arturo Noriega is overcome by emotion as he exits the stage following a producer. Cheering people await him.)
Arturo Noriega:
“or just started yesterday, we all share the same journey.”
(Visual description: Arturo Noriega walks through a group of applauding people.)
Arturo Noriega:
“This is what makes our country so amazing.”
(Visual description: Title animation with Truist Foundation Inspire Awards and Truist Foundation.)
(Uplifting music fades out.)
(Visual description: Screen fades to black.)
