Welcome to CommunityBuild Ventures, a consulting firm invested in helping leaders confront inequity head-on to transform their community members’ lives for the better. With an innate passion for dismantling racist structures and building thriving spaces for personal and community growth,...
Without the prioritization of emotional self-care and healing, racial equity work cannot be fully brought into fruition. This is because the generations of trauma inflicted on Black communities in the United States have led to more stress and adverse physical...
Here at CommunityBuild Ventures, one of the partnerships that we are most proud and passionate to be a part of is working with the Arthur Blank Foundation’s Organizational Coaching program. This program aligns with CBV’s mission of changing the world...
At CommunityBuild Ventures, we recognize that in order to truly move forward from the systemic racism that has affected many BIPOC, we must first heal individually. To have the energy, stamina, and headspace necessary to dismantle oppressive systems and ward...
Organizational coaching is an excellent way to improve the systemic structures of your organization. Organizational coaches can come into your organization and help implement tools and practices that will allow your org to better meet equitable policies and standards. A...
Picture yourself in a space that is structured with the intention of allowing the people within it to be their most authentic selves. A space where individuals feel connected not only to one another but also to themselves and the...
“..institutions commonly and unconsciously assume POC [People of Color] who are invited into the institution should not only be grateful but should also want to be like the white people who invited them.”
“Change culture and you change lives. You can also change the course of history...When strategy competes with culture, culture wins every time. This is one of the reasons why the most brilliant anti-white supremacy strategies in the world have failed to dislodge white-body supremacy from our culture...But we can never belong to a strategy. We can never belong to a movement, either, though we can be part of it. We can only belong to a culture.”
"Education can’t save us, we have to save education - To love all children, we must struggle to create schools we are taught to believe are impossible: Schools built on justice, love, and anti-racisim."
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