Support our Move - Making Space for Community
Healthy Black Families, Inc. is relocating to a new home in the commercial space on the ground floor of the Maudelle Shirek building at the corner of Ashby and Adeline. As we plant new roots, it is our intention to create a culturally rich space to anchor our beloved and vibrant South Berkeley community.
HBF’s location at Maudell Shirek is a testament to our community's collective vision, advocacy, and effort. Your donations and continued support will allow this to be a place where community feels at home, and is educated, engaged, and activated around the issues most important to sustaining and growing a beloved community.
We are also honored to house The Hursel and Vicki Alexander Library on Revolutionary Theory, Culture, and Practice in this new space. This will be a rich educational resource that we hope to share widely within our local community, the region, and beyond. Your donations will support the curation of this space as a welcoming interactive environment where young people, families, and elders can commune together and learn about the importance of people power, resistance, activism, and organizing.
Will you embrace the opportunity to support this new chapter of HBF’s legacy and service to community with your generous donations?
We hope that your answer is a resounding “YES!” and thank you, in advance.
Use our Tax ID: 46-3142614 to make your tax-deductible donation today!
Our Impact
Our Mission:
Providing people with knowledge, skills and strategies to make social systems and policies more equitable for Black people and communities.
Our Vision is to organize individuals, families and the organizations that serve them, into communities empowered with skills to advance social equity and justice, with a focus on Black individuals and families.
We Serve Black Families in 5 Areas:
Umoja Community Fund
Through the Umoja COVID Relief Fund, Healthy Black Families outreached to 175 families in the greater Bay Area and provided financial awards to 106 families to cover payment of rent, groceries, utilities, and wellness services.
Sisters Together Empowering Peers (STEP)
Healthy Black Families facilitated 12 individual counseling and leadership development workshops Sisters Together Empowering Peers (STEP) Leaders. STEP Leaders led 27 information/education sessions for parents and caregivers.
Thirsty For Change! (T4C)
Healthy Black Families, in partnership with the Center for Food, Faith and Justice (CFFJ), presents the Thirsty For Change! program; providing Sugar Sweetened Beverage and health equity education.
Play and Learn on Zoom
Play and Learn Circles were offered in support of pregnant and new moms sheltering in place with children 0-3 years old. These interactive, hour and a half, weekly, online circles continued for 12-weeks with participants from Bay Area communities.
Telling Our Stories (TOS) Writing Circles
Telling Our Stories (TOS) provides therapeutic, guided writing circles focused on thoughts, feelings and experiences related to their pregnancies, birth and being a mother. To date, eight books documenting these life stories have been published.
Get Involved
Donate
As we work to ensure the rights of people in the communities we serve to have access to food, employment, quality health care and education, we welcome your support! The world is enriched when every person has what they need to thrive. Be the change you want to see in the world. Donate Today!!
Volunteer
As a volunteer, you have the opportunity to use your resources, knowledge, experience, talents and skills to support a variety of programs, initiatives and activities at Healthy Black Families. Will you join us as we build more just and equitable communities?
Partner with Us!
Collaborate with Healthy Black Families to collectively impact communities. Our vision is to create a team of organizations that will work jointly with shared purposes and practices to actualize equity and social justice in the communities we serve.
