NOIR BCC
Noir Black Chamber of Commerce, Inc. is a national 501c3 nonprofit Community Development Entity (CDE) headquartered in Louisville Kentucky, and Kentucky’s only Black Chamber Of Commerce, which serves 132 members throughout California, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas. The chamber is dedicated to uplifting Black Americans through the pursuit of economic development and social mobility. The chambers mission is achieved via the following avenues; Affordable Housing, Entrepreneurship, Entitlement Reform, Community Health and Wellness, Urban Hunger, Teen Professional Career Attainment, Workforce Development, and the Arts. HOW YOU CAN HELP As Americans rail against racial, social, and economic injustices that have affected Black Americans for over 400 years, Black America is now moving towards the healing and solutions process, where new economic and social pathways need to be identified and created to guide Black Americans towards self-sufficiency and social equality. Your financial support through GIVING LEVELS will allow NOIRBCC to create additional programming that will “MOVE” Black Americans towards success. SUPPORT OUR VISION As a sponsor, you have an opportunity to act as a “change agent” by support the "impact and outreach" the chamber envisions. Currently, we are providing programs and services which allows us to pursue the following goals. • Expand outreach and capacity building services to local black entrepreneurs and small business owners • Provide comprehensive, evidence-based workforce development, and job training apprenticeship programs • Construct affordable housing and provide homeownership education to first-time homebuyers and marginalized Section 8 families • Cultivate creative projects, via the youth arts, that promote the history, culture, and current social conditions of people of color • Develop innovative programming to address food insecurity and provide healthy resources and options for those who reside in “urban food deserts” • Create a co-working space for collaboration, networking, and cultural innovation • Provide supportive services to seniors, veterans, the disabled, and the LGBTQ community via affable health initiatives, and wellness programs • Create effectual programs that will allow individuals and families to transition from public assistance to self-sufficiency https://www.noirbcc.org/donate
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