Black Women’s Executive Directors Program

Philly Black Worker Project builds power with Black workers in Philadelphia, especially those in temporary, low-wage, gig, and excluded jobs. Through worker-led campaigns, leadership development, policy advocacy, and mutual aid, the organization fights for good jobs, safer workplaces, fair treatment, and dignity for Black workers and their families.

My Sistah's House is dedicated to helping communities facing housing instability across the Southern United States gain access to safe, affordable housing and greater economic stability. My Sistah’s House provides innovative housing solutions, direct assistance, advocacy, and leadership development to help individuals and families achieve long-term stability, safety, and self-sufficiency, while expanding access to affordable housing through partnerships and grassroots organizing.

African American Roundtable builds political and community power with Black leaders and residents in Milwaukee, especially on the city's Northwest Side. Through leadership development, campaigns like food access work, youth organizing, and seeking community input on budget and safety efforts, including participatory budgeting, African American Roundtable helps residents shape decisions that affect their daily lives and work toward a Milwaukee where Black communities can thrive.

SISTORIES creates storytelling spaces for Southern Black women, femmes, and gender-nonconforming people. Through its magazine, editorial fellowship, public programs, and narrative archives, the organization helps communities use a Black queer feminist worldview to preserve memory and imagine healthy futures through storytelling.

Healthy & Free Tennessee is a statewide network of organizations and advocates working to expand access to reproductive health care and protect people from policies that criminalize pregnancy outcomes. Through policy advocacy, grassroots organizing, and youth leadership development, Healthy & Free Tennessee builds community power so all Tennesseans have the support they need to determine their reproductive future.

Southern Movement Committee builds people power across Tennessee through community organizing, civic engagement, youth development, and legal support for organizers. The organization works with residents directly impacted by violence, racism, incarceration, and economic inequality to shape local policies, build democracy, and direct public funding toward youth safety and community-determined priorities.

The Black School is a community arts center in New Orleans’ Seventh Ward that equips Black, Indigenous, and other people of color to create change using art and design. Through workshops, public art, youth apprenticeships, and The Black Schoolhouse, the organization builds creative pathways for young people and preserves Black cultural memory and self-determination.

Movement for Family Power works to end family policing, the system of surveillance, investigation, and forced separation of children from families, and to build a world where all families can thrive. The organization works to shift how these issues are understood publicly, connects and provides technical assistance to grassroots groups, and helps families, especially Black and marginalized families, stay safe and remain together.

Barred Business is a membership-based organization that helps formerly incarcerated people and their families build economic independence after facing disproportionate harm from the U.S. legal system. The organization combines organizing, policy advocacy, civic engagement, and economic support to reduce barriers to housing, employment, voting, and opportunity for people impacted by incarceration.