Black people in America face numerous barriers to success, including racial and gender bias that can put them at a serious disadvantage compared to their white male counterparts. Today, we celebrate the top 10 Black women ancestors in entrepreneurship. 1....
CommunityBuild Ventures is a pro-Black, solution-focused firm that’s committed to eliminating racial disparities by developing powerful and racial equity-driven leaders and organizations. One of the ways CommunityBuild Ventures accomplishes this goal is with the CommunityBuild Ventures Cooperative, a growing cooperative...
What can Natasha Harrison say!? This moment is nearly surreal. And I am so grateful and blessed!. I am incredibly honored to have been awarded the prestigious The Good Trouble Honor for Championing Equity by Atlanta’s Center For Civic Innovation....
When we first began CommunityBuild Ventures, we spent a lot of time and energy when deciding what we wanted our mission to be and how we wanted to communicate this vision to the world. Words such as equity, equality, racial...
We’re here with life-changing news for CommunityBuild Ventures! Satterberg Foundation Funds, trust-based support for non-profits who have provided over $90 million in grants since 1991, has extended their support to CommunityBuild Ventures. But what does this mean for CBV? How...
CommunityBuild Ventures often collaborates and partners with companies that help create center racial equity. CBV is thrilled to announce their partnership with BMEsTalk, who have made it their mission to create a safe, rich space for Black male educators to...
“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."
"There is a common misconception that equity and equality mean the same thing — and that they can be used interchangeably, especially when talking about education. But the truth is they do not — and cannot."
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