Watch our President, Natasha A. Harrison, as she discusses the racial equity key skills. In this vlog, you will learn about the following four racial equity key skills: Noticing: feeling when something doesn’t feel right or aligned with being racial...
At CommunityBuild Ventures, we pride ourselves on being a solution-based firm that’s committed to eliminating racial disparities. One of our favorite ways to do this is by partnering with organizations and entrepreneurs in our communities to help them recognize and...
The latest results of a survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics have many business and community leaders taking a deeper look into an apparent and disturbing truth: Black women are leaving the workforce at an alarming rate. Take...
When it comes to fighting the systemized oppression and centuries of racism that have kept our world broken, the burden often falls on Black communities. While fighting the systems that were designed to keep Black people down is vital, it’s...
What is a “Brave Space”? At CommunityBuild Ventures, we define it as a structured space to allow participants to be their most authentic selves and lean in more deeply in conversations centered on racial equity. Why do we offer Brave...
CommunityBuild Ventures is proclaiming December as the Month of Gratitude! Our practice of Brave Space Building uses gratitude as an important building block to help participants be their most authentic selves. It invites hopefulness and opens the door to infinite...
“..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.”
"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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