Transforming Lives of Black Children and Youth in Canada Initiative
Program Information
BOF is a Community Partner for a $2.5 million SSHRC (The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Partnership Grant – Transforming Lives of Black Children and Youth in Canada – led by the University of Calgary and BOF Board Member and Health Working Group Co-Chair Dr. Bukola Salami. The Transforming Lives of Black Children and Youth initiative will address the social and economic wellbeing of Black Children and Youths in Canada. This partnership facilitates a national research network to co-create, build capacity, and mobilize knowledge about Black children and youth (age 0 to 24 years) in Canada, and to build a knowledge hub to further support Black knowledge production during and after the project. It will improve the outcomes of Black children and youths as it relates to the justice system, child welfare system, educational system and also addresses issues with settlement and integration.
About The Social Sciences andHumanities ResearchCouncil of Canada(SSHRC)
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) is the federal research funding agency that promotes and supports research and research training in the humanities and social sciences.
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About University ofCalgary
The University of Calgary is a place to start something—a career, a company, a new cure, or a new skill. We have a vision – to be a global intellectual hub in Canada’s most enterprising city, and to be recognized as one of Canada’s top five research universities.
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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
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