Get to Know the Center

• Financial Education for Black Women

  Financial Education for Black Women

  Black women are capable professionals, civic-minded leaders, financial decision-makers, and the keystones for social, educational, and financial knowledge in the family. The future is not just driven by women, but it’s one led in Black communities by women business professionals, heads of household, and the next generation of women college students. By educating and empowering Black women, we educate and empower the face of Black communities.

• Recruiting and Training Initiatives

  Recruiting and Training Initiatives

  The industry recognizes the need to support lasting professional diversity, but too often, diversity efforts become a box-checking exercise that leads to a revolving door. We believe the solution is a holistic model that promotes corporate culture and maps out a path to career success. Our donors help fund scholarships for current and future Black professionals – including for students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

• Purposeful Executive Training

  Purposeful Executive Training

  Blacks only occupy 3.2% of the senior leadership roles at large U.S. companies and just 0.8% of all CEOs at Fortune 500 companies. They need more opportunities to move from middle management into senior management and executive roles, including corporate Board service. Through advocacy, training, mentorship, and partnership, we strive to help Black professionals move into positions of power and influence.

• Collective Impact for All

  Collective Impact for All

  Through top-down organizational thinking and bottom-up, boots-on-the-ground insight, this initiative thinks big, yet surgically executes at the community level. For some communities, that may mean advancing knowledge around economic and financial issues, for others, developing tools and programs from the ground up. The goal is to create a massive knowledge and wealth transfer to the Black community.

Our Four Steps Forward® are designed to promote upward mobility and wealth building for Black America.