ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Economic Empowerment programs focus on 3-primary areas: Financial Literacy, Family Wealth Building, and Entrepreneurship. Through comprehensive seminars and training classes, these programs work to promote economic self-sufficiency. The 100 Black Men of America, Inc. considers economic empowerment necessary for creating just societies worldwide. 100 Black Men of America, Inc. encourages and fosters the ability of its mentees and members to be self-determined in creating dreams, pursuing them, and ultimately perpetuating those dreams and aspirations by establishing the mechanisms to sustain generational wealth. Through comprehensive curricula and training opportunities, our organization works diligently to promote economic self-sufficiency and break the cycle of generational debt. The goal of the 100 is to leave a legacy of wealth-building, which leads to debt-free living for the youth and communities we serve. Our economic empowerment programs and initiatives foster financial literacy, career development, financial planning, investment management, and fiscal responsibility at an early age. Exposing our youth and collegiate students to the skills, strategies, and mindset of entrepreneurship also provides beneficial, transferable knowledge that will help to establish a firm foundation from which they can later build upon business development and wealth creation. The words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. resonate as profoundly today as they did in 1967 when he declared, “The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands; when he has the means to seek self-improvement.”

For far too many in the African-American community, lack of economic freedom has resulted in a vicious cycle of dependency. Through a series of programs targeting youth and adults, our goal is to provide education and access to resources that create a solid financial footing. So families will have the ability to provide for themselves and future generations.