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About Us

Our story starts

The BIPOC-to-BIPOC Initiative was formed during the pandemic when we noticed that many mid-size to large organizations led by white individuals were receiving funding for initiatives that grassroots and BIPOC Executive Directors (EDs) were already leading in their own communities. In response, our BIPOC EDs engaged in several sincere and candid conversations with various grant-making entities, which ultimately led to the funding of a research project aimed at identifying specific needs and determining our next course of action.

As a result of these efforts, a coalition of 15 BIPOC organizations has emerged, and we are now eager to share our research findings with various grant-making organizations. This BIPOC group was brought together through a deliberate process, and during this collaboration, several members committed themselves to initiating a movement that advocates for a new model of capacity-building for BIPOC organizations. Our goal is to foster a more inclusive economy within Forsyth County.

This cohort of 15 organizations has been assembled to lay the groundwork for a strategic approach in which BIPOC organizations support and empower other BIPOC organizations. Together, we are preparing to take the next steps in philanthropic engagement with the aim of addressing and closing the funding disparities that currently exist.

Vision

BIPOC Leaders are healthier and wealthier and will function to funnel resources to our most vulnerable communities.

Vision Statement:

As BIPOC leaders we are able to acquire:

Higher funding investments from public and privates sources over 1 million dollars

Leadership opportunities to led the work around equity and supporting vulnerable populations that are representative of our identities

Educational positions to teach and analyze the creation of equitable systems

Partnership priorities with private and public sectors to serve BIPOC communities in health and wellbeing

Mission

We aim to create systems in which all have access to resources, respect, and opportunity.

Mission Statement:

As BIPOC Leaders, we are able to:

Network and honoring of bodies
Collaborate over initiatives to move the Social Determinants of Health needle
Share resources and wealth
Examine white supremacist structures and where we operate within them
Celebrate BIPOC identities, history, and ways of being
Adapt a trauma-informed model within personal and professional life
Closing funding disparities through donor education
Developing fundraising strategies
Practice systemic changes within our own operations and program implementation
Practice what you preach (Explicitly state and define the values, and as you hold other organizations and funders to the law, you are following it yourself, e.g. making sure you get community input, but as an organization, you make decisions about the community without them, just bc we are black, or women, or share the marginalized identity.)
Not just racial equity but the intersectionalities of gender, power, and other identities
Pursuit of equity in practice and focus.
Personal and professional equity process of identifying unhelpful systems and creating more inclusive, equitable, and where everyone can thrive.
Everything that we do is filtered through a cultural, lived experience, and reality lens that fits, e.g. the “ADD” let the child run around for 30 seconds and clap for him with community support, let the child do a break dance and rap, or song–to nurture our kids and support them and to change the paradigm that the only way that we can teach you is if you sit down for 35 minutes.
Creative expression, you might not want to correct the language, “ain’t” leave it.