Black Philanthropy Houston

📺 ESPN Films’ documentary short “Black Girls Play” debuts this 📅 Sunday, November 12 at 7:30p.m. CT on ESPN. The film is directed by award-winning filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michéle Stephenson.

“There may be no journey more fascinating than the exploration of our roots. There may be nothing more revealing than the discovery of where we come from — our inspiration, our ideas, our culture. In the ESPN short film “Black Girls Play,” Stephenson and Brewster chronicle the origins of the hand games that have been played by young Black girls for generations, and their influence on music, dance, and community all across the American creative landscape.

Tracing the beginnings of the games all the way back to the slavery era, the film’s collection of illuminating voices — including musicians, music educators and ethnomusicologists — trace a fascinating cultural history that explains the significance of hand games, particularly in the evolution of popular music from jazz all the way to hip hop. The film also explores hand games’ influence on style and individualism everywhere from the playground to TikTok videos today. And it also questions why so much of the popular culture to come out of hand games has been dominated by men, when young girls were its original creators.

An enlightening, unexpected, and charming film, Black Girls Play will make you think differently the next time you hear a kid playing a hand game or chanting a playground rhyme — and recognize just how significant an art it has been across the American story.”

🗣️Hello donors, givers, and philanthropists! 💵Consider making a gift to support Black-led social change today!

📆 WEDNESDAY, 8/31 6PM CT: Black Impact Houston presents “Unwavering: The Power of Black Innovation” - a short film celebrating the joy, impact, and possibility of Black innovation. Virtual program will also feature leaders in social innovation, philanthropy, and media talking about storytelling, building thriving communities, and transformational leadership. Don’t miss this exclusive screening! Film produced by & Fearless Productions.

From Dream to Action - Black Philanthropy Month 2022

The Black Philanthropy Month poster serves as a visual representation of the annual theme and aims to inspire giving. The BPM 2022 poster is illustrated by Kah’Milah Ledgester, an artist and college student studying graphic design at Florida A&M University. Kah’Milah won Target’s 2021 HBCU Design Challenge, which allowed her to showcase her talented designs in Target stores nationwide.

🔗 via https://www.blackphilanthropymonth.com/art-poster

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Registration for the 2022 PPIA Public Service Expo Virtual Graduate School and Career Fair is now open!

PPIA's Expo gives students and professionals the opportunity to connect with employers, fellowship programs, and the top public policy and international affairs graduate programs from across the country.

Free registration available via link in bio.
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https://hopin.com/events/ppia-virtual-expo-summer-2022/registration

📆 💻 Virtual expo!

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Registration for the 2022 PPIA Public Service Expo Virtual Graduate School and Career Fair is now open!

PPIA's Expo gives students and professionals the opportunity to connect with employers, fellowship programs, and the top public policy and international affairs graduate programs from across the country.

Free registration available via link in bio.

💲📰 Philanthropy Always Sounds Like Someone Else: A Portrait of High Net Worth Donors of Color is a qualitative analysis of interviews with 113 high net worth Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) donors. Conducted over three years in 10 U.S. cities, this is one of the most comprehensive studies of high net worth donors of color. 🎯

Great time discussing how individuals can use their time, talent, money, and networks for good- including supporting Black entrepreneurship! 💴👩🏿‍💼👨🏾‍💼Thanks and for the invite! , you were a great host. Onward!

Join us, , and 97.9 The Box🤘🏽] today from 5-6pm CST on Facebook LIVE as we celebrate Black Philanthropy and discuss ways you can support and accelerate the growth of Black entrepreneurs.

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Join us today at 5pm on Facebook LIVE as we celebrate Black Philanthropy:
Learn How You Can Support and Uplift Black Entrepreneurs

Hosted by Sky Houston - Radio One

Co-Host Phillip Yates - Equiliberty

Special guest LaTanya Flix of Black Philanthropy Houston

Presented By: Black Philanthropy Houston

Support ! GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people around the world to come together through generosity in all forms - time, money, goods, influence, and advocacy. 👫🏾💵⚖️

We remember.

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On or about August 20, 1619, about 20 Africans — kidnapped from their homelands and brought to British North America — were brought by force to Point Comfort, part of today’s Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. Since 2010, the city of Hampton and several organizations, including Project 1619, have observed an annual African Landing Commemoration Day.

The name of the Point Comfort landing place was just one of the great and bitter ironies of the August 1619 disembarkation, which led to the establishment of the British trans-Atlantic slave trade, as well as slavery itself in the British colonies, and, subsequently, in the United States.

The Point Comfort name derived from the first English settlers finding “comfort” on this point of land in 1607. But in 1619, the “20 and odd” Africans were inhumanely traded like chattel by the captain of the ship The White Lion to Virginia’s colonial Governor George Yeardley and merchant Abraham Peirsey, and dispersed to several other locations. Another irony was that 1619 also was the year that a semblance of democracy came to Virginia, as the colony held its first election for the inaugural House of Burgesses, the forerunner of today’s Virginia General Assembly.

According to various histories, the Africans were part of a contingent of about 350 enslaved Africans from the Portuguese colony of Angola, captured from the kingdom of Ndongo in west central Africa. The Portuguese took the Africans aboard the São João Bautista, which was to sail to Vera Cruz, Mexico, but was attacked by English vessels, The White Lion and The Treasurer.

Teach the NYT Magazine‘s “1619 Project” issue spearheaded by Nikole Hannah-Jones () with resources from the Zinn Education Project: https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/teaching-1619-project/

The 2021 poster was designed by Dr. Dimeji Onafuwa, a Nigerian-born artist, designer, and researcher. Onafuwa based the BPM 2021 Art Poster on his painting “Deep Water,” which is about bravery in the face of adversity. He observed that courageousness is often requisite for tenaciousness, especially in our long struggle for racial equity.

🔜 🗣Tuesday, August 3rd, 11am EDT is the kick-off for Black Philanthropy Month 2021 Global Summit! The series theme is making equity real. To access event recordings, 🎧 registration is required. 🎟

🔗 https://hopin.com/events/fundblacksummit

📆 Thurs, 6/17 — Writing the Block is an online creative writing workshop series to explore the history of displacement in Houston, the myths of gentrification, and our collective power to imagine just communities.

Equity is Active is virtual,💻 free, and fit for Black and Brown kids and adults who live in Houston neighborhoods experiencing high rates of displacement like Third Ward, Fifth Ward, and Sunnyside.

🔗Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/writing-the-block-tickets-156437696361
Collaborators:
The Houston Coalition for Equitable Development

Share your ideas! One Million Black Women is a $10 billion investment strategy to positively impact the lives of at least one million Black women over the next decade by narrowing opportunity gaps in healthcare, education, housing, and access to capital.🫀👩🏿‍🏫 🏡💲

🔗https://onegs.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8AgkJHVNZDDAW3Q?source=fromwebpage

The initiative seeks to address barriers to opportunity that Black women face at every life-stage in their roles as mothers, entrepreneurs, breadwinners, students, and leaders in their communities.

🔗Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/our-commitments/sustainability/one-million-black-women/.

📆 Application due APRIL 12 at 5PM CT.   apply today!

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We’re partnering with and  to host a bootcamp at the end of the month! The Female Founders Bootcamp will identify, accelerate and connect   with the resources they need to launch and scale high-impact businesses. This bootcamp will be held virtually on April 29-30.

The application deadline has been extended until APRIL 12 at 5PM CT. 
 apply today!

Applicants will need to meet the Workforce Solutions eligibility criteria in order to participate. See link in bio for more details!

‼️Deadline: January 15, 2021 💵 New Scholarship Opportunity for Black and Hispanic Leaders🙎🏾‍♀️🙎🏽‍♂️ Additional scholarship support is now available through an investment in Black and Hispanic leadership in nonprofit organizations from Bank of America.

🔗 https://glasscock.rice.edu/degrees-certificates/certificates/leadership-institute-nonprofit-executives-line-certificate

Leadership Institute for Nonprofit Executives (LINE) Certificate */

It’s not to late to support Black-led social change and local organizations. Consider a year-end gift! 💵 🔗 Need ideas for Houston organizations, view our list: https://bit.ly/2X0ZjKE.

7 ways to make year-end charitable donations supporting racial equity. ‘If there was ever a time to give generously, it’s now’ Tips from experts on how to make a difference with your donations.

Invest in Black-led organizations today and every day! Make a contribution to support Black communities and Black leadership as we end 2020.💲 💵

🗣Grad School Fellowship💲for BIPOC rising COLLEGE JUNIORS committed to public service careers. Only 2 weeks left to apply! 📆 Deadline: Sun., November 15, 2020

🔗 https://ppiaprogram.org/undergrad-jsi/

The Public Policy and International Affairs Fellowship Program (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI) Fellowship is a rigorous academic graduate level prep program for undergraduate juniors. The program was started to address the lack of diversity👩🏿‍🎓🧑🏾‍🎓👩🏽‍🎓👨🏿‍🎓across professional public service, including government, nonprofits, public policy institutions, and international organizations. Applicants must be graduating with their first bachelor's degree between December 2021 and August 2022.

🗣BIPOC and diverse business owners happening today, Wed., 10/21!

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Check out our free Diverse Supplier Virtual Summit: Together on the Journey today at 10 am PT/12 pm CT. Share with a diverse business owner!

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🗣Register for Monday, 10/12, @ 2pm EST for 📖 book launch and the first listen! There’s so much more to her story! So much!

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Join us for our first Virtual Book Launch of Dr Freeman’s Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving!

Thrilled to have 35 funders from across Texas join us for a conversation on “Equity in Philanthropy“. Nonprofit leaders of color face 4 consistent BARRIERS⚠️to capital💲: getting connected, building rapport, securing support, and sustaining relationships.
The time for change is now! Proud to partner with these brilliant minds- .peacelovehappy - for this conversation! Kudos to for co-hosting!

Inspiring feature on Eight Million Stories and their quest for sustainability.💵
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“Pierre, 37, moved to Houston with the goal of opening an all-boys school six years ago. He says that the region refers 12,000 young people to the juvenile justice system annually. And many of those kids struggle to reintegrate into their communities post-incarceration.

At the moment, sustainable funding is Pierre’s biggest hurdle.

“There’s so much more we can offer our students, but being a young organization, we just don’t have the capital,” he says. “How do we create a financial cushion when we’re still in the startup phase? We receive grants from foundations and are trying to create innovative ways to subsidize our costs.”

That’s where Jones and other 8 Million Stories graduates come in. They’re a walking testament of job readiness, leadership skills and ability to work in a team environment that the program affords young Houston men — given the right support.”

Website: https://www.eightmillionstories.org

Donation 🔗 https://donorbox.org/support-for-opportunity-youth

📰 👀 Check out our suggestions on ways to increase equity in philanthropy in Houston in this co-written piece by local colleagues.

🔗 https://blackphilanthropyhouston.org/resources-1

Delta Sigma Theta is the first Black Greek letter organization to establish a 501(c)(4) organization. 🗳 👩🏽👩🏾‍💼💁🏿‍♀️💪🏾

August 1- Black Philanthropy Month begins today!

The Black Philanthropy Month poster serves as a visual representation of the annual theme and aims to inspire giving, advance the ideals of our movement and ultimately shape 21st century philanthropy.

The BPM 2020 poster is illustrated by .tunde. They shared about the 2020 BPM theme, “When I think of "foresight" I think of preparedness, exchange, knowledge of self, and the community that supports us all in thriving.” Visit their website at http://yetundeolagbaju.com/.