10 Black-Owned Organizations to Support on Giving Tuesday
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10 Black-Owned Organizations to Support on Giving Tuesday

It’s Giving Tuesday! Known as the day for global generosity for people and organizations, this day was created in 2012 as a simple idea: A day that encourages people to do good. Radical generosity invites people in to give what they can to create systemic change. To prep your spirits for the spirit of giving, here are some incredible Black-owned organizations doing the work to heal our communities that deserve your support today, and every day. 

    1. The Goodr Foundation

 

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The Goodr Foundation is committed to ending hunger for youth and seniors. Their foundation focuses on providing healthy meals to youth, families, and seniors through our recipient and non-profit partner network. Goodr takes a hands-on approach to solving hunger through their Neighborhood Eats program which provides hot meals during the weekend, field trips, and snack packs to youth and families living in poverty.

    1. Transparent & Black 

Transparent & Black is a wellness collective creating spaces for Black people to heal from intergenerational trauma. Through their wellness brands online for Black women and men (Transparent Black Girl and Transparent Black Guy), they’re building spaces for our community to heal in an environment where they’re the priority. Their next step is building the first wellness studio created for the Black community with trauma-informed swim classes, access to therapists, and on-site doula matching in Brooklyn. Support their crowdfunding link here.

  • Black Male Voter Project

 

The Black Male Voter Project works to increase the number of Black men that are super voters by building a movement that encourages black men to regularly and actively engage in the voting and electoral process. Since the foundation of the United States, black men and women have faced barrier after barrier to achieving voting equality. BMVP creates custom programs that are unique to the realities of life as a Black man by, increasing awareness of benefits to voting, creating relational organizing models that erode distrust and insecurities in the voting process, and building confidence in elections as solutions to the problems that ail Black men.

  • National Black Justice Coalition 

 

 

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The National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC) is a civil rights organization dedicated to the empowerment of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and same gender loving (LGBTQ/SGL) people, including people living with HIV/AIDS.

 

  • The Body a Home For Love 

 

The body: a home for love is a Texas community-based 501(c)3 nonprofit shifting culture around how Black women heal from sexual trauma. They’re committed to helping survivors heal through joy – a gentle and restorative approach that affirms our worth despite what they’ve gone through. Through wellness, art and storytelling, they empower survivors to reclaim their narrative and sustain the ongoing work of self-love and restoration. 

  • HBCU LA 

 

 

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The HBCU in LA Internship Program provides a select group of diverse student leaders from our nation’s HBCUs, the opportunity to gain access and opportunities to internships essential for launching and leveraging a career in an industry where they have been sorely underrepresented. This pipeline development initiative is the first Los Angeles-based program of its kind to provide students with critical housing and the opportunity to participate in 10-week internships with major studios, networks, talent agencies, and other global creative industry organizations. The program has also expanded to include technology, music, sports, fashion, law, and commercial production.

  • Harlem Children’s Zone

 

Harlem Children’s Zone started with one mission: to end intergenerational poverty in Central Harlem and lead the way for other long-distressed communities nationwide and around the world to do the same. From early childhood, education, and career programs to community outreach and wellness initiatives, HCZ opens pathways to mobility and prosperity.

 

  • The Center for Black Equity

 

The Center for Black Equity (CBE) is an institution committed to supporting leaders, institutions and programs for health, economic and social equity for LGBT people of African descent. CBE seeks to promote a multinational LGBT network dedicated to improving health and wellness opportunities, economic empowerment, and equal rights while promoting individual and collective work, responsibility, and self-determination. Since the CBE’s founding in 1999, members have examined and taken positions on the fundamental issues of the day – health, human services, education, social, economic, and equality-related issues.

  • Black Women for Wellness 

 

 

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Black Women for Wellness is committed to the health and well-being of Black women and girls through health education, empowerment and advocacy.

  • Black Girls CODE 

 

 

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Black Girls CODE is devoted to increasing the number of Black women and girls in the digital technology space. Through community workshops and after-school programs, Black Girls CODE introduces computer coding lessons to young girls from underrepresented communities. They seek to create stronger economies and more equitable societies through diversity and inclusion and aim to train 1 million girls by 2040 to lead, innovate and create in science, tech, engineering and math.

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