This is the OP. This thread is about organizations in the black community that are working on the real issues that are the most important for black communities today.
“When you spend your dollar out of the community in which you live the community in which you spend your dollar becomes richer and richer; the community out of which you take your money becomes poorer and poorer.” -
Malcolm X
Malcolm X did not attend the Harvard School of Business, Brandeis, or Penn State. He earned his “undergrad degree” at State Pen U. However, his opinion relative to economic development is spot on. The Civil Rights Movement was never finished. MLK was about to take things to another level.
King said in an interview befre he died that America had it easy relative to the civil rights movement. He said it cost nothing to integreate schools and lunch counters, but for true equality there had to be something done abut economic inequality. Unfortunately he got killed and that scared a bunch of potential new leaders to put pressure on the government to create methods of economic equality. So today it's about the economic equality blacks have been denied.
When we talk about reparations the ignorant begin popping off as if blacks have no plans or ideas. And nothing could be further from he truth. Here is one example.
FOR FAR TOO MANY AMERICANS, TRUE FINANCIAL FREEDOM HAS BEEN IMPOSSIBLE.
Our mission is to advance economic opportunity by providing the tools they need to reach their goals. We help individuals of all ages by offering financial education, one-on-one coaching, courses on credit score improvement, as well as pathways toward homeownership and starting a business.
The cycle of struggling to get by each month has dominated kitchen tables and the desks of small business owners for generations. It is more than just “pulling yourself up by the bootstraps”—it is about knowing how to navigate a financial system that requires knowledge, experience and expertise in order to generate economic security for families and business, and to pass that on to our children.
EXPANDING ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL.
Operation HOPE has a broad array of individualized services that level the playing field by offering customized one-on-one programs for youth, adults, and disaster survivors—on their own or through their employers—to equip them with the financial knowledge and tools they need to create a more secure future – all at no cost.
WHY IT MATTERS
Economic inequality, financial illiteracy, social injustice, inequitable access to capital and lack of financial dignity are real and systemic issues that have hindered the economic growth and opportunity for under-served individuals and small businesses for over 400 years in America.
We recognize these problems are systemic and complex and require innovative and collaborative solutions from a variety of partners in government, community, and the private sector.
Operation HOPE partners with like-minded players to identify where the greatest impact can be achieved. HOPE offers tangible programs and initiatives that address these problems, establishes audacious long-term goals for improvement, creates and tracks key performance indicators to measure their progress, and then takes the lead in raising awareness, lobbying for change, rallying support and building coalitions to work towards eliminating these issues.
Our mission is to advance economic opportunity by providing the tools they need to reach their goals.
operationhope.org
Bragging about some pastor in Chicago building another job training center or fatherless homes shows just how much a person doesn't know about what a solution would be. Here we see an organization teaching financial literacy, fixing credit, etc.. THIS, will create a change.
