BD3 – Black Disability National Capacity Building Initiative
Program Information
Black Opportunity Fund (BOF) with funding from the Federal Office of Disabilities Issues, is developing and delivering a groundbreaking 18-month national initiative – Strengthening the BD3 Sector: A National Capacity-Building Program designed to strengthen, connect, and expand the impact of BD3 organizations (Black Disabilities led, serving and focused not for profits and charities) across Canada. BOF is working with Black Disability organizations across the country as well as SETSI (Social Economy through Social Inclusion), to ensure that the program is grounded in an Afro-centric and disability justice framework, incorporating lived experience.
About Federal Officeof Disabilities Issues(ODI)
The Office for Disability Issues (ODI) is the focal point within the Government of Canada responsible for providing leadership and expertise on disability-related policies and programs.
- Federal Officeof Disabilities Issues(ODI)
About BlackOpportunity Fund
Black Opportunity Fund (BOF) is a community-led registered Canadian Charitable organization, whose mandate is to dismantle anti-Black racism by establishing a sustainable pool of capital to fund Black led businesses and Black led not for profits and charities, in order to improve the social and economic well-being of Canada’s Black communities.
The fund will catalyze the cultural, socio-economic, institutional, and political change required to enable Canada’s diverse Black communities to thrive. Black Opportunity Fund will prioritize initiatives around education, health, women, criminal justice, entrepreneurship, arts & culture, and youth that impact the quality of life in Black communities across Canada.
Black Opportunity Fund fulfills its mandate by
- Providing grants to Black-led not for profits and charities, who are leading initiatives that impact the quality of life in Canada’s Black communities.
- Facilitating access to capital for Black-led businesses to drive economic empowerment through the disbursement of loans, equity investments and other funding support.
Black Opportunity Fund’s Registered charity #727678070 RR 0001
- Black Opportunity Fund
- (BOF)
