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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Community Improvement & Capacity Building, Federated Giving Programs, Human Services, Philanthropy
Mission: Our mission is to lead the bay area black community and our partners in a unified effort to restore vitality to our people and neighborhoods, by securing and investing financial resources in community organizations that build individual and organizational capacity for success.
Programs: The critical mass health conductors (hc) program is the preeminent behavioral health modification strategy created by and for the black community. Begun in 2005, hc recruits, educates and trains volunteers during a four month class utilizing an afro-centric curriculum. During the process, participants become empowered through self-awareness, group support and guidance from a trained conductor to embrace a personalized behavioral health modification strategy that becomes the framework for a life changing experience. Upon graduation, each participant receives a health conductor number that designates their passage into an empowered life of individual and community health advocacy. Over 900 bay area residents are health conductors. Youth conductors 2014based upon the health conductor model, the new curriculum will focus on engaging a young generation, 18-30 years old, in a behavioral health modification with a health intervention and community leadership
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