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National Black Church Initiative Foreclosure Prevention Guide .pdf [28kb] Requires Adobe Acrobat

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•   State-by-state lists of housing counseling agencies     
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NBCI Healing Family Initiative
The church understands there will be no church without strong families to support it.

Help Preserve the History of the
Black Church

The National Black Church Initiative is working with the Smithsonian Institute to help preserve and protect the First African Baptist Church, the oldest Black Baptist church in America.

National Black Church Initiative
Mission Statement

The National Black Church Initiative

The National Black Church Initiative (NBCI) is a coalition of 34,000 African-American and Latino churches working to eradicate racial disparities in healthcare, technology, education, housing, and the environment. NBCI’s mission is to provide critical wellness information to all of its members, congregants, churches and the public. The National Black Church Initiative’s methodology is utilizing faith and sound health science.

The aim of this website is to offer our member congregants and the public helpful and healthy science-based tips on how to develop and maintain a healthy lifestyle. The website also offers the latest information on housing, education, technology and environmental issues.

The National Black Church Initiative’s purpose is to partner with major organizations and officials whose main mission is to reduce racial disparities in the variety of areas cited above. NBCI offers faith-based, out-of-the-box and cutting-edge solutions to stubborn economic and social issues. NBCI’s programs are governed by credible statistical analysis, science-based strategies and techniques, and methods that work.

The press conference was held March 28, 2010 at the Israel Baptist Church, Baltimore, MD, kicking off a seven year commitment to healthier lifestyles for all African Americans through education, pre-screening, improved diet, physical exercise, and clinical trials

Baltimore represents the first HED health community, one of 35 such communities across the country.

Continue to the HED Kick-off page >>
health-initiativeNBCI Health Emergency Declaration (HED) The National Black Church Initiative Health Emergency Declaration (HED) is a comprehensive approach to tackling the tragic state of health in the Black community. Through the establishment of 35 health prevention communities, HED plans to educate communities across the country and promote preventive healthcare. Because of the Black Church’s leading role in the Black community, HED will have a greater and lasting impact on the African American community and seriously help to decrease the health disparities that are so prevalent within it.
financial-literacyNBCI Financial Literacy Initiative The National Black Church Initiative launches the most progressive savings plan in the nation’s history, asking African American familes to save one year’s salary over the next seven years with its Savings for Life Program. During the good years of harvest God urged the people of Israel to store grain because there would be bad years. Given the economic principles that you cannot have continuous growth, you have to prepare yourself, your family and your community for the years where there is no growth at all. We are experiencing these times now.
housing-homepageNBCI Housing Literacy Program The National Black Church Initiative teamed with national mortgage and housing organizations to provide congregants and the public with information on how to keep their home.The first initiative product was the NBCI Foreclosure Prevention Guide, to help identify resources for the explicit purpose of assisting homeowners facing financial difficulties.

The program has grown to include the Ten Easy Steps to Help Stop Foreclosure guide to help homeowners navigate the housing crisis, and information for those intending to be first-time homebuyers.
small-businessNBCI Small Business Enterprise Within the faith-based community there are more than 50,000 small businesses, the engine of our nation’s economic life. NBCI’s objective is clear; we plan to organize them, educate them and empower them by providing informative material and seminars free of charge. NBCI will emphasize the traditional routes of government assisted small business programs, but we will also introduce these small businesses to creative financing, targeted marketing, how to sustain and maintain cash flow, and how to create an effective business plan that is implementable.
babyfundThe Baby Fund The Baby Fund is a response to the rising tide of abuse, neglect, and death among infants and young children in our society. The Fund will be both a source of assistance and advocacy to meet the needs of children who have little or no voices of their own. The universal Church has a moral obligation to protect children. The philosophical and theological underpinnings of the Fund can be understood by all faith communities, noting the supreme value placed upon children in scripture when God said, “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for such is the kingdom of God.”
education-initiativeNBCI Education Initiative The National Black Church Initiative has devised an Education Initiative, and already have 250,000 volunteers working to drastically cut the dropout rate among young African American males and to increase graduation rates of males and females at the collegiate level, especially at historically black colleges and high schools across America. We hope to also focus on high school dropout rates among the weakest communities like Cleveland, New York, Detroit and Baltimore.

digital-divideNBCI Digital Divide Initiative Too often minority communities lack the ability to access the internet in the same way that non-minorities do. We do not believe that there should be a constant line in the sand over these issues. The internet should not be a racial dividing line in America. NBCI is committed to helping organizations, churches and the internet and cable industry to bring broadband internet access into African American and Latino communities.
civil-societyNBCI Civil Society Initiative A civil society lifts everyone to the same level of humanity, and forces people to deal with each other’s humanity. Our ultimate goal is to erase human prejudice, discrimination, hatred and especially violence. This project compels the Black Church to go against the grain, and not be afraid to speak to the most powerful institution or individual. It will also require the Black Church to correct any level of ignorance and engage in conversation in order to transfer hate filled language into words of healing and dialog.
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The National Black Church Initiative Message of Hope and Assurance During This Economic Crisis
Watch video and listen to sermons with messages of divine hope and assurance delivered through revelation from God to His clergy for all the people. God’s message of hope and assurance is for believers and non-believers alike.

Watch the NBCI Foreclosure Prevention Pamphlet Press Conference

Prominent African-American Clergy Backing Abuse Legislation
The National Organization for Women and prominent African-American clergy threw their support behind a bill that would lift limitations statutes on lawsuits alleging sexual abuse of children.
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NBCI Requests Meeting with Attorney General Eric H. Holder to Discuss Violence in and Towards Religious Institutions in America.pdf [64kb]
Religious institutions are now at risk from violence from those looking to strike fear amongst the most vulnerable target, underlining their contempt for civil as well as religious law.
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Reverend Anthony Evans discusses NBCI and its efforts against foreclosure.

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Telephone: (202) 744-0184

Email: a.evans@naltblackchurch.com

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NBCI Offers Prayers and Hope for Haiti Earthquake Victims

.pdf [97kb] Rev. Anthony Evans speaks on behalf of Haiti rescue efforts.

Rev. Anthony Evans speaks on behalf of Haiti rescue efforts at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Washington, DC.

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Spirituality, Health and
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The National Black Church Initiative Featured Pastor
Each month, NBCI features a selected pastor that has demonstrated extraordinary achievements, accomplishments, or has improved the quality of life for others.

rev-msbrown-thumb.jpgThis month, Reverend Matthew Stovall Brown, Sr. is in the spotlight...
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