The DC-based Association for Enterprise Opportunity, which provides strategic and development assistance to black-owned enterprises, is focused on the prosperity gap that exists between black and white American families.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of America, which plans to use the funding to help create the TLC Youth Advocacy process, an effort to further educate 5,000 teens and build advocacy capacity through service-learning projects.
• Breakthrough Miami, with the Changemaker Leadership Track supporting Breakthrough Scholars and recent alumni to challenge the digital divide, gain early work experience, college advice, financial literacy and leadership development.
• LA-based stock policing center, and its efforts to expand the use of COMPSTAT – software that monitors incidents, identifies trends and holds departments accountable by measuring crime.
• Covenant House, based in New York, focuses on developing workforce and education services in the United States while serving homeless youth and young families.
• Just City-Memphis and its Memphis Community Bail Fund, the Clean Slate Fund and Court Watch programs.
• MENTOR, which provides resources and tools for virtual mentorship made available to mentoring programs nationwide.
• Oregon Justice Resource Center and its support of the Women’s Justice Project – the first and only program in Oregon that addresses the needs of women in the criminal justice system.
• Per Scholas, Brooklyn, enrolling 220 new individuals for his software engineering courses – a 15-week full-time training program that will include technical instruction and professional development in efforts to advance economic equity.
• Texas Appleseed’s work in three areas affecting black and Latinx-Texans disproportionately with low-income backgrounds: driving license suspensions, deleting criminal records, and debt collection.
• Young Way United initiative of United Way Worldwide, which aims to support 25,000 young men of color in the United States to and through post-secondary and to entry-level career positions.
• Silver Spring, Maryland’s American Dream Academy and its Children of Incarcerated Parents initiative, which provides mentorship, leadership training, education support and career readiness for a unique population of predominantly black and Latinx youth in communities disadvantaged by racial prejudice and mass incarceration.
The NFL has sponsored 20 different social justice organizations since the inception of the Inspire Change initiative.