Resources

Investing in BLOs Templates

These templates are provided to support Black leaders in having conversations with their boards, and their funders, and to advocate for more equitable funding for Black-led Organizations in Houston.

#buildblackhou Data Slidedeck

Insights from Funders

Insights from Organizations

Invitations & Ideations

Resourcing Plan

Fellowships for Leaders

Camelback Ventures Fellowship – https://www.camelbackventures.org
Echoing Green Fellowship – https://echoinggreen.org/fellowship/
Fulcrum Fellowship (Center for Community Investment) –
https://centerforcommunityinvestment.org/our-work/leadership-development/fulcrum-fellowship/
Galaxy Leader Fellowship- https://www.galaxygives.com/fellows
Justice 40 Accelerator – https://www.justice40accelerator.org/
New Schools Venture Fund Fellowship – https://www.newschools.org
Rockwood Leadership – https://rockwoodleadership.org/fellowships/
The Ashoka Fellowship – https://www.ashoka.org/en-us/program/ashoka-fellowship
The Skoll World Forum Fellowship – https://skoll.org/community/skoll-world-forum-fellowship/
Windcall Residency – https://windcall.org/residency/

Professional Development

Listening Session Host Tools

Are you interested in hosting your own listening session? Here are the tools we used to host ours.

General Facilitation Tools

Here are some tools that we used when facilitating planning process meetings.

Facilitating Workgroups

Workgroup Checklist

Status Report Template

Liberating Structures

Black-Led and Black-Centered Giving

In 2019, Black Philanthropy Houston released the findings of one of the first surveys of Black givers in our community. This planning process is a sister project to that work.

BPH highlighted collective giving as one of the traditions in Black communities. Nationally, there has been a movement to spotlight existing circles and support the development of new ones. If you’re interested in starting a giving circle, Community Investment Network serves Black people looking to leverage their collective resources. For additional ideas on ways to help close the giving gap for Black-led organizations, check out the GivingGap.

Finally, below is a list of well-known Black-led or Black-benefitting entities that are giving in the South (*An asterisk indicates the Houston region is a priority community).

Amandla Fund (VA)

Co-Thinkk (Asheville, NC)

Birmingham Change Fund (Birmingham, AL)

Black Community Fund (Kansas City, KS)

Black Feminist Futures (National)

*Black Founders Fund (National)

BraverTogether (Tarrant County, TX)

Heritage Giving Fund (Dallas, TX)

*Hive Fund for Climate and Gender Justice (Southern States)

*New Giving Collective (Houston, TX)

*Ms. Foundation (National)

Penny Foundation (National)