Comments on: About BPA

By: Kwame

Kwame — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:00:22 +0000

I also wanted to add that this is the solution to deteriorating services in our community. Investors and philanthropists from our communities and backgrounds can assist us in getting quality service and respect by helping us to create independent institutions that meet our needs. Other institutions take our money and build mansiojns in other communities while our communities are forced to pay for substandard service. Therefore, I commend not only those who are philanthropists and investors from our community. I applaud those who are promoting it so that it becomes a well known and well accepted practice to give back.

By: Kwame

Kwame — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:55:00 +0000

I am glad this is happening in Washington. There is a need for independent infrastructure in our community. Communities that are respected are those with strong independent infrastructure. Having our own philantropists invest saves our non-profits and institutions from having to choose between being insignificant and fading out or selling out their purpose to outside forces who hold the purse strings. Right now I am interested in starting a non-profit. I have a Masters Degree in education and an A+ in technology and have extensive experience teaching all grades interdisciplinary from K-12 and GED as well as offering crisis intervention services in New York and Newark. However, I need a little guidance in the first steps of opening a nonprofit organization.

By: Aiko Bethea, Esq.

Aiko Bethea, Esq. — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 03:47:49 +0000

I just learned about this organization on Facebook. I just moved to Seattle from Atlanta. I miss the energy of blacks who undertsand the bigger picture adn who are engaged in doing something to move us towards progress.

By: Brandi M. Baldwin, M.Ed.

Brandi M. Baldwin, M.Ed. — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:13:55 +0000

Just stopping by to support this website. It was referred to me through http://www.fusedc.org. I am a young social entrepreneur who just started my own nonprofit organization called The Urban Reform Network (TURN). I am excited about what BPA is doing and will support personally through establishing a membership and spreading the word. I am looking forward to upcoming networking events and opportunities to build relationships with other like-minded professionals.

By: Keith Orlando Hilton, PhD

Keith Orlando Hilton, PhD — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:10:23 +0000

I am surprised that I am the first person to leave a response, but honored to contribute a few comments at this time. I was born in Virginia and my youngest daughter is a graduate of perhaps the most important university in the world, Howard University in Washington, DC. My wife is a graduate of George Washington U. I mention these three points as east coast markers for an African-American (moi) now on the west coast (California) still 100% committed to BPA’s charge of: “raising issues that directly impact the Black community and creating opportunities for increased discourse and action.” It seems that much of the fine work done by BPA and its members remain under the radar, but that is slowly changing as your website continues to be discovered. On this side of the country, and as a journalist and CEO of an African-American media, education and leadership consortium, I will continue to do my part to spread your message and remain true to your core set of values. Continued success. KOH, PhD