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National Black Church Initiative
Mission Statement
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 >>
NBCI 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.
NBCI 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.
NBCI
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.
NBCI 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.
The 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.”
NBCI 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.
NBCI 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.
NBCI 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.
Contact
Us
National Black Church Initiative
P.O. Box 65177
Washington DC
20035-1577
Telephone: (202) 744-0184
Email: a.evans@naltblackchurch.com
Contact
us on-line. You can send us your comments, feedback, get assistance with making a donation, inquire about volunteering or ask a general question.
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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.
This
month, Reverend Matthew Stovall Brown, Sr. is in the spotlight...
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