The Black Community Focus Fund
The Black Community Focus Fund
Who We Are
Our Mission
The Black Community Focus Fund is a 501c3 public charitable organization created to provide direct support in housing, education, and economic opportunity to black families in the Rochester community impacted by racism’s history and current manifestations.
We are about eliminating the disparities that, specifically because of historical racism, leave Black Rochesterians short of so many opportunities, ranging from employment, access to neighborhood services, economic opportunity, and education. We look to get to zero on disparities!
Who We Are
OUR MISSION
The Black Community Focus Fund is a 501c3 public charitable organization created to provide direct support in housing, education, and economic opportunity to black families in the Rochester community impacted by racism’s history and current manifestations.
We are about eliminating the disparities that, specifically because of historical racism, leave Black Rochesterians short of so many opportunities, ranging from employment, access to neighborhood services, economic opportunity, and education. We look to get to zero on disparities!
GETTING TO ZERO
ON RACIAL DISPARITY
OUR PHILOSOPHY
In 2018, we proposed to construct a Civil Rights Heritage Park in partnership with the City of Rochester, that tells the story of the Black freedom struggle for liberation and equity here in Rochester, NY. This key initiative allows the Black community to tell its own story, which is largely missing from the historical canon taught in school. Recovering and memorializing Black history will help balance the understanding of residents about how Rochester came to be the segregated, impoverished city that it is today and its longstanding struggles.
It is our hope that the Civil Rights Par will motivate us to create a better and brighter tomorrow filled with equity, inclusion, and equal access to resources. It is our goal to allow these initiatives and others to help us create real change in the local Black community.
GETTING TO ZERO
ON RACIAL DISPARITY
OUR PHILOSOPHY
In 2018, we proposed to construct a Civil Rights Heritage Park in partnership with the City of Rochester, that tells the story of the Black freedom struggle for liberation and equity here in Rochester, NY. This key initiative allows the Black community to tell its own story, which is largely missing from the historical canon taught in school. Recovering and memorializing Black history will help balance the understanding of residents about how Rochester came to be the segregated, impoverished city that it is today and its longstanding struggles.
It is our hope that the Civil Rights Par will motivate us to create a better and brighter tomorrow filled with equity, inclusion, and equal access to resources. It is our goal to allow these initiatives and others to help us create real change in the local Black community.
The Beginning
OUR STORY
After returning in 2017, from a week-long trip visiting numerous historical and contemporary civil rights sites, museums and memorials, twenty-five parishioners and members of Spiritus Christi Anti-Racism Coalition (SPARC) were inspired to create and construct an outdoor civil rights heritage site and a Black Community Focus Fund in Rochester.
After returning in 2017, from a week-long trip visiting numerous historical and contemporary civil rights sites, museums and memorials, twenty-five parishioners and members of Spiritus Christi Anti-Racism Coalition (SPARC) were inspired to create and construct an outdoor civil rights heritage site and a Black Community Focus Fund in Rochester.
The Beginning
OUR STORY
After returning in 2017, from a week-long trip visiting numerous historical and contemporary civil rights sites, museums and memorials, twenty-five parishioners and members of Spiritus Christi Anti-Racism Coalition (SPARC) were inspired to create and construct an outdoor civil rights heritage site and a Black Community Focus Fund in Rochester.
“I am supportive of universal basic income because it could allow for people to be lifted out of poverty. It’s true and some people say ‘Oh you are just giving people money, they are going to waste it.’ When you look at the data a lot of people pay down their debt, they save and they use those funds to be able to help themselves financially,”
– Mayor Malik Evans
“I am supportive of universal basic income because it could allow for people to be lifted out of poverty. It’s true and some people say ‘Oh you are just giving people money, they are going to waste it.’ When you look at the data a lot of people pay down their debt, they save and they use those funds to be able to help themselves financially,”
– Mayor Malik Evans
Work With Us
Reach out to join our coalition, request support to implement your program, or apply for the Guaranteed Basic Income program
Work With Us
Reach out to join our coalition, request support to implement your program, or apply for the Guaranteed Basic Income program
The Black Community Focus Fund is a 501c3 public charitable organization created to provide direct support in housing, education, and economic opportunity to black families in the Rochester community impacted by racism’s history and current manifestations.
The Black Community Focus Fund is a 501c3 public charitable organization created to provide direct support in housing, education, and economic opportunity to black families in the Rochester community impacted by racism’s history and current manifestations.
The Black Community Focus Fund is a 501c3 public charitable organization created to provide direct support in housing, education, and economic opportunity to black families in the Rochester community impacted by racism’s history and current manifestations.
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