This Black History Month, we’re proud to highlight the innovative and impactful work of these customers. Their missions are varied—from helping kids geek out with technology to telling an overlooked history of what we know of basketball to helping those struggling with mental illness—but their causes are all worthy of your time and support.
On this page, you’ll find their missions, the areas of impact they serve, and ways to support their important work. You’ll also find diversity, equity, and inclusion resources for nonprofits below.
Mission: Founded by Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady in 1996 to remedy the under-representation and isolation of African American poets in the literary landscape, Cave Canem Foundation is a home for the many voices of African American poetry and is committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.Impacting: The ArtsHeadquarters in: Brooklyn, NY
Mission: The African American Policy Forum (AAPF) is an innovative think tank that connects academics, activists and policy-makers to promote efforts to dismantle structural inequality. They utilize new ideas and innovative perspectives to transform public discourse and policy. They promote frameworks and strategies that address a vision of racial justice that embraces the intersections of race, gender, class, and the array of barriers that disempower those who are marginalized in society. AAPF is dedicated to advancing and expanding racial justice, gender equality, and the indivisibility of all human rights, both in the U.S. and internationally.Impacting: PolicyHeadquarters in: New York, NY
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[youtube]Mission: Founded in 1974, the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc., (ABC) is a nonprofit organization with an international membership of over 1,900 health professionals, lay members of the community (Community Health Advocates), corporate members, and institutional members. The ABC is dedicated to eliminating the disparities related to cardiovascular disease in all people of color. Today, the ABC’s public and private partnerships continue to increase their impact in communities across the nation.Impacting: HealthcareHeadquarters in: Washington, D.C.
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[youtube]Mission: The Black Fives Foundation works to research, preserve, showcase, teach, and honor the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball. Their efforts aim to conserve narratives and artifacts of the pre-NBA Black basketball experience, celebrate early African American basketball artifacts, encourage understanding of early African American basketball history as an essential cultural genre, and advocate for the recognition of early African American basketball pioneers.Impacting: SportsHeadquarters in: Greenwich, CT
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Mission: Imadé (ee-MAH-day), the founder of Depressed While Black®, is a writer and mental health advocate. She is a suicide attempt survivor who lives with clinical depression and borderline personality disorder. Imadé first developed Depressed While Black as her 2015 Columbia University Non-Fiction Creative Writing MFA thesis. Depressed While Black has grown into an online community, an in-progress book, and a 501(c)3 nonprofit that donates Black-affirming personal care items to psychiatric patients. Depressed While Black envisions a world where people of African descent heal from severe depression through Black-affirming mental health support and advocacy.Impacting: Mental Health
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Mission: Geeking Out Kids of Color's mission is the liberation of youth of color through technology and mentorship, by developing decolonized tech education programs to nurture community leaders of change.Impacting: YouthHeadquarters in: Seattle, WA
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Mission: The mission of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights of all persons and to eliminate raced-based discrimination. They envision a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race.Impacting: Systemic InequalityHeadquarters in: Spokane, WA
Learn more about NAACP Spokane
[youtube]Mission: BEAM is a collective of advocates, yoga teachers, artists, therapists, lawyers, religious leaders, teachers, psychologists and activists committed to the emotional/mental health and healing of Black communities. Their mission is to remove the barriers that Black people experience getting access to or staying connected with emotional health care and healing. They do this through education, training, advocacy and the creative arts.Impacting: Mental healthHeadquarters in: Los Angeles, CA
For more blog posts, webinars, templates, and podcasts, we recommend checking out Bloomerang’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion resources.
