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Join the Black Community Focus Fund as we create a generational legacy for black life in Rochester, New York and around the country.
Match My Five
Our goal is to have a minimum of 1,000 members in the black community invest $5.00 a month into their own Black Community Focus Fund. We call it the “Match My Five Campaign.”
These funds will help us create Rochester’s first Black Civil Rights Park at Baden Park on Upper Falls Blvd. and plan for a future of self-sufficiency/zero disparities in the 14605 ZIP code area for black families.
The Black Community Focus Fund, along with partner funders, can help support the Park and address the pressing disparities Black families face in this community preventing them from thriving!
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Match My Five.
Our goal is to have a minimum of 1,000 members in the black community invest $5.00 a month into their own Black Community Focus Fund. We call it the “Match My Five Campaign.”
These funds will help us create Rochester’s first Black Civil Rights Park at Baden Park on Upper Falls Blvd. and plan for a future of self-sufficiency/zero disparities in the 14605 ZIP code area for black families.
The Black Community Focus Fund, along with partner funders, can help support the Park and address the pressing disparities Black families face in this community preventing them from thriving!
Franklin D. Florence
Heritage Civil Rights Park
The idea of a local Civil Rights Heritage Site was inspired by a visit to the Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama during our Race Convoy in April, 2017. Our own Civil Rights Heritage Site, commemorating the lives of local civil rights activists, will allow the Black community to find its own voice, in the telling of its own story.
Franklin D. Florence
Heritage Civil Rights Park
The idea of a local Civil Rights Heritage Site was inspired by a visit to the Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama during our Race Convoy in April, 2017. Our own Civil Rights Heritage Site, commemorating the lives of local civil rights activists, will allow the Black community to find its own voice, in the telling of its own story.
The Black Community Focus Fund family offers their deepest condolences to the family of Min. Franklin D. Florence on his most recent passing.
Min. Florence is cherished for his incredible work of racial justice and equity in the Rochester community. We believe that his leadership in taking on Kodak for employment opportunities for the Black community is one of the staple actions that made way for the emergence of a Black middle class in Rochester. Without the employment and economic opportunities gained for Black members of this community through his work from the F.I.G.H.T. organization, many families would still be living at or below the poverty line.
It is fitting that in 2022, SPARC (Spiritus Christi Anti Racism Coalition) and BCFF (the Black Community Focus Fund) joined forces and decided to name the forthcoming outdoor Civil Rights Park after him. The Franklin D. Florence Civil Rights Park which will be located at Baden Park on Upper Falls Blvd, will feature his work and many other local freedom fighters who engaged in the Black Freedom Struggle for justice and equity in our community.
This week we lost a giant who will always be fondly remembered for years to come.
~ Rev. Myra Brown
Rochester New York
Guaranteed Basic Income
Starting this year (2023), the city of Rochester, New York will offer 175 people $500 a month for one year. In the second year of the Guaranteed Basic Income pilot program, the same amount will be provided to a different group of 175 people. These are unconditional, regular, and direct cash payments to individual participants that supplement existing welfare programs. This means there are no restrictions on how the money can be spent and no requirements for the participants.
Racial Justice Training
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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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