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ABOUT BEI

The Black Equity Initiative (BEI) is a  coalition of Black led organizations formed in 2014 with a shared desire to improve the Black community through empowerment, education, and policy change.

 

Within the Black Equity Initiative is the Black Equity Initiative Funds with Grantees. The Black Equity Fund is a regionally-focused, culturally-rooted group of Black-led organizations developing a shared agenda for policy and systems change that lifts Black communities across the Inland Empire.

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Nguzo Saba

Values & Principles

Umoja​

Unity

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To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

Kujichagulia

Self-Determination

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To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

Ujima

Collective Work & Responsibility

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To build and maintain our community together and make our community's problems our problems and to solve them together.

Ujamaa

Cooperative Economics

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To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Nia

Purpose

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To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

Kuumba

Creativity

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To do always as much as we can to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. 

Imani

Faith

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To believe with all our hearts in our people and the righteousness and victory of our struggle. 

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