Project Description: The $15,000 budget allocates $8,000 for renovations and cultural enhancements, including decor and lighting.

Project Description: This grant will enable us to expand our catering services by purchasing essential food equipment.

Project Description: We seek funding for renovations to enhance sustainability and customer experience.

Project Description: The $10,400 grant will enhance our outreach to introduce Jamaican cuisine in British Columbia.

Project Description: We're seeking funding to create a dedicated pastry station with new ovens and equipment to boost efficiency and meet growing demand.

Project Description: Delicasey seeks financial support to expand from take-out to dine-in, upgrade our interior and cooking equipment.

Project Description: Securing funding for a van will enhance Cafe Caye Mange’s market reach, boost brand visibility.

Project Description: We seek $10,400 for branding and marketing at 13 SUNS Ethiopian Café to enhance visibility and attract new customers.

Project Description: We’ll invest $10,400 in marketing to boost visibility and position our juices as a top choice through social media.

Project Description: We request the full $10,400 grant for interior renovations to replace our stained ceiling and walls.

Project Description: We request $10,400 to enhance Honey Soul Food's operations, expand community mentorship programs.

Project Description: Our $10,400 grant will upgrade equipment and enhance marketing, allowing One More Cocoa to expand our product.

Project Description: We request $10,400 to enhance brand visibility and community engagement through targeted social media campaigns.

Project Description: We seek $10,400 to enhance our marketing and branding, focusing on digital strategy.

Project Description: Zuleeats seeks to scale through tech investment and hopes to receive the Black Opportunity Fund grant for recipe testing.

Project Description: To improve our financial viability, we will enhance our marketing with a new website and social media strategies.

Project Description: Global Pot Fusion Cuisine seeks funding to enhance our digital presence and host cultural events that promote African cuisine.

Project Description: With our sustainability pathway we want to offer youth who have been part of Hope Blooms for more than 5 years the opportunity to get the proper training and resources to come back and work with us in some capacity making them an integral part of our Strategic Plan for the next 10 years.

Project Description: This project focuses on securing land rights and fostering sustainable development within African Nova Scotian communities. By advocating for community ownership of land and resources, we help preserve cultural heritage and stimulate economic growth.

Project Description: We are using the Community Land Trust model to steward land for community-led development that can facilitate transformation with a focus on cultural preservation, deeply affordable housing, climate responsibility, and reconciliation with Indigenous peoples through responsible land stewardship.

Project Description: This program is dedicated to empowering Black youth in Nova Scotia through entrepreneurship. By promoting entrepreneurial culture, BIJ focuses on experiential learning where youth “learn entrepreneurship by doing entrepreneurship.”

Project Description: ANSMA has created an efficient and accessible service delivery model that can reach Black music creatives in Nova Scotia and throughout the Maritimes through its core programming consisting of two outreach programs and two music development programs.

Project Description: Thrive360 is a comprehensive 40-week program designed to empower Black women who are aspiring entrepreneurs with the skills, resources, and mentorship needed to thrive in the business world.

Project Description: The NB Black Youth Outreach Program (YOP) was designed to provide a “System of Care” for each Black youth participant - meeting identified needs at the personal, familial and community level integrated in the School Districts through the lens of eliminating racism, discrimination, and marginalization.

Project Description: One of our top priorities is food security: to address this concern, we run a weekly food bank and an intercultural kitchen. The latter offers one woman per session the chance to teach a group of women a recipe from her country of origin that corresponds to the ingredients given in the emergency food basket.

Project Description: The Cote des Neiges Black Community Association (CDNBCA)’s Teen Leadership (TL) program focuses on activities that respond to create development opportunities for social, cultural, wellness, educational, and economic empowerment for the Black English-speaking community of Quebec.

Project Description: Our organization is dedicated to enhancing access to health and social services for the English-speaking Black community in the Greater Montreal Area. One of our key initiatives, conducted in partnership with McGill University, focuses on supporting the recruitment and retention of English-speaking professionals in the health and social service sectors within Quebec.

Project Description: The length of our transformative mindset development and entrepreneurship program is 5-weeks and includes a mixture of interactive workshops, lectures, activities, and individual mentorship sessions.

Project Description: The program delivers culturally preferred foods to visible minority people especially black immigrant families. This has helped relieve the stress on families who are either new immigrant or can’t afford the high cost of food due to changes in economic status.

Project Description: The 3rd Annual Afro-Caribbean Cultural Summerfest of Surrey (ACCSS) will be held on August 13-14, jointly organized with the ACCSSF'2024 aims to be the finest and safest multi-day food, music, and arts festival in Surrey. The festival will showcase Afro-Caribbean musical genres, feature local and international artists, and actively involve the community.

Project Description: Le programme proposé vise la transmission de la culture africaine à 50 jeunes francophones nouveaux arrivants Noirs à travers les ateliers de percussions et danses africaines suivi des cercles de conversations et d’échanges interculturels. l'offre de cette programmation est très importante pour les familles immigrantes francophones noires en situation minoritaire car cela contribuera à renforcer leurs liens sociaux au sein de la communauté en réduisant leur risque d'isolement, et élargissant ainsi l'offre de programmes pour ces derniers. De plus, la danse est une bonne activité physique pas toujours accessible. Notre projet permettra d'éliminer les barrières et faire augmenter le taux de participation des adolescents francophones Noirs dans les activités physiques. En effet, chaque participant pourra: - développer son cardio, ses muscles et son plaisir de bouger; - travailler son sens de l’équilibre, améliorer ses réflexes; - s’exprimer, car les mouvements qu’il exécute font appel à son imagination et à sa sensibilité; Afin de rejoindre les personnes ciblées, nous: - Impliquons les associations ethnoculturelles lors la planification/promotion du programme auprès de leur communauté respectives et le recrutement des participants; - Faisons la promotion du programme dans les communautés religieuses; - Travaillons avec les Conseils scolaires et les différents organismes dirigés par les noirs ou qui desservent les Noirs afin de recruter les participants au programme. Les avantages du projet: - Création des moments d'change intergénérationnel et création de liens entre les jeunes adolescents et les adultes/aînés. - Les jeunes apprennent l'histoire et la culture africaine en participant aux ateliers. - Amélioration de la santé et le bien-être des participants.

Project Description: With the Emancipation Jubilee, TBCWE is resurrecting the emancipation celebrations that once made Windsor a favourite summer tourist attraction. Three days of free, family friendly activities featuring live performances, cultural foods, vendors and historical tours highlight Black, African and Caribbean (BAC) arts and culture in a freedom festival celebrating the end of slavery in Canada.

Project Description: The MYUA After School Program serves as a vital component of our organization's mission to empower black youth in Windsor-Essex County. Through this program, we provide academic support, mentorship, and a safe space for personal and social development to black youth aged 8-18.

Project Description: The proposed program is a community event consisting of an interactive film screening and exhibition taking place in Windsor, ON in June 2025. The event is Jackson Park’s ‘Phase II’ capstone, and will feature culminating projects from each platform. The intent is to share and promote awareness of the journey of the JPP and its community as we challenge the traditional erasure and underrepresentation of Black-Canadian history together.

Project Description: Oasis Youth Care Programs stands as a beacon of hope, dedicated to empowering and uplifting homeless Black youths in the Halton/Peel Regions. Providing transitional housing and culturally responsive wrap-around support services, The Oasis House is Halton's only black-led and black-focused housing service for transition-aged youth (18-25).

Project Description: REST's Bridge of Hope program offers a holistic approach to addressing youth homelessness in Peel Region. Rooted in evidence-based practices and community collaboration, the program empowers homeless youth to secure stable housing and build a foundation for a brighter future.

Project Description: The Black Equity Integration Initiative is a 4-year longitudinal research project examining how social enterprises, including Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs), assist Black and other racialized Canadians in overcoming socioeconomic barriers after experiencing incarceration and/or criminalization. The key goals of this initiative align closely with Pitch Better's mission to facilitate economic inclusion for Black and equity-seeking professionals and entrepreneurs.

Project Description: In Empowering Black Youth to Resist Conflict with the Law, we utilize restorative justice. We believe that Black Youth, both victim and perpetrator, need healing, and building their capacity to resist contact with the law.

Project Description: Mamas Healing Garden's 12-week youth engagement workshops and training sessions are a cornerstone of our organization's mission to provide holistic healing initiatives for our community. These workshops delve into critical issues such as Environmental Justice, Food Equity, Land Stewardship, and Climate Change, educating youth about the importance of sustainable practices and community involvement.

Project Description: The program is aimed at reducing hunger in black families and promoting healthy food practices through community and family outreach education and trainings. Through this initiative, we rescue, transform, preserve and distribute various food items in black communities and families.

Project Description: The Black Screen Office (BSO) has shone a light on the fact that content made by Black Canadian producers must overcome tremendous, systemic obstacles to make it to Canadian and international screens. The primary way to access national and global markets is through screen festivals, as they are critical marketplaces for producers to distribute their works, make essential connections, and establish financial backing for future projects.

Project Description: This project will implement Augmented Reality (AR) integrations for Black-led public art. For these installations, we will use QR codes to embed links to virtual exhibitions that archive the public work and also allow for the sharing of additional elements such as animation, alternative colours, and virtual sculptures that build on the physical installation.

Project Description: Market expansion and branding

Project Description: Upgrading restaurant interior

Project Description: Market expansion and branding

Project Description: Technology improvement

Project Description: Upgrading cooking equipment

Project Description: Market expansion and branding

Project Description: Market expansion and branding

Project Description: Upgrading cooking equipment

Project Description: Upgrading restaurant interior

Project Description: Market expansion and branding

Project Description: Market expansion and branding

Project Description: Upgrading cooking equipment

Project Description: Upgrading cooking equipment

Project Description: ACCEC's SJI program empowers people of African descent by providing contextual reports for the courts, a legal directory, education and awareness programs, and healing circles using African Indigenous Knowledge systems.

Project Description: Vancouver Black Library Collections curates materials for the BIPOC community, promoting diversity and access to education and culture through funding support for acquisitions, staff, training, and community outreach.

Project Description: The SCREEN Program in Winnipeg prevents youth radicalization and violence through safe spaces, media literacy, intercultural dialogue, mentorship, sports, and outings. It promotes resilience, challenges stereotypes, and empowers youth to contribute positively to society.

Project Description: The African Diaspora Cultural and Traditional Event celebrates the contributions of the African diaspora in the Maritimes while promoting cultural heritage and supporting the mental health and integration of newcomers in Canada.

Project Description: This program empowers at-risk black youth in Uniacke Square, Halifax, through social entrepreneurship and community involvement, aiming to prevent criminal involvement and break the cycle of poverty while promoting mental health and community development.

Project Description: The CaribbeanTales Cinema Screenings Therapy Program provides therapeutic film experiences for BIPOC audiences, addressing social issues and changing narratives through authentic portrayals by Black media artists.

Project Description: This initiative enables BAND's board to shift from operational to governance roles, focusing on fundraising, partnerships, and strategic priorities for sustainable growth and resource development.

Project Description: Our program offers gymnastics, cultural dance, self-esteem building, and art classes for young Black girls, fostering self-expression, confidence, and cultural belonging in an empowering environment.

Project Description: Prosper offers intensive case management for young individuals with firearm-related charges, aiming to increase access to services, address systemic barriers, and reduce involvement in violence and crime.

Project Description: The Advocacy Committee and Criminal Justice Reform Subcommittee promote diversity, equity, and justice for Black Canadians through interventions, reports, and legislative influence, creating positive social change in the community.

Project Description: The #MaybeNextTime campaign aims to address sexual violence against Black girls and women. The We Got You, Sis program offers capacity building, mental health support, and resources to encourage disclosure, empowerment, and access to necessary tools for self-advocacy and healing.

Project Description: Our project aims to provide diversion programs for guilty pleas to prevent criminal convictions, reducing recidivism and empowering Black youth with better employment opportunities and support systems.

Project Description: R3 provides culturally specific support for youth and families in the justice system. Increased funding enables expansion, professional counseling, and extrajudicial programs for Black youth, reducing recidivism and improving community safety and mental health.

Project Description: The Black Youth Diversion program provides holistic prevention and intervention support for justice-involved Black youth, aiming to divert them from jails, address overrepresentation, and foster positive change through workshops and community interventions.

Project Description: Acorn2Oak's Justice Program provides wraparound support for racialized youths in conflict with the law, addressing root issues, reducing recidivism, and promoting education and career prospects.

Project Description: The project engages African, Caribbean, Black, and Indigenous youth through workshops led by Black legal professionals. It educates them about legal rights, develops legal skills, and includes a mock hearing and needs assessment.

Project Description: We propose the Festival Bon Courage, an annual event highlighting the artistic and cultural diversity of communities of African descent, with the aim of combating cultural misunderstanding, promoting heritage and involving young people in Quebec society.

Project Description: I.M.P.A.C.T will launch a business accelerator program for Black Anglophone Quebecois producers, providing training, mentorship, and funding opportunities to support their career growth and promote diversity in the industry.

Project Description: Hoodistic Justice, a restorative justice project by Hoodstock, aims to address systemic inequalities and overrepresentation of Black populations in the justice system. It offers alternative measures and Afrocentric workshops to rebuild identity and communities.

Project Description: To complete the blood donation culture research project.

Project Description: Creation of a STEM curriculum to use at Ethos Lab that can be replicated to be used in schools and other educational settings, as well as design and delivery of STEM virtual workshops.

Project Description: Training community advocates in case management to serve as connectors for people seeking to break the cycle of being in the crimminal justice system, creating the connections and relationships with police, Crowns and all diversion programs.

Project Description: Chrome books for digitial access and learning to black community members, mentorship programs, education resources and all culturally focused programs.

Project Description: Culturally relevelant skills coaching and mentorship to recent graduate Black women to support them on their transition to full-time employment in their field.

Project Description: Culturally sensitive approach to career preparation, financial literacy and wellness support to Black High School students.

Project Description: Increasing exposure and awareness on STEM career pathways for Black children and Youth through a combination of facilitated and self-led experiences, hands-on learning and mentorship.

Project Description: A research project on the experiences of Black people in Canada’s healthcare system, and strategies of resistance and wellness, to address experiences of anti-Black racism.

Project Description: Advocacy in Black communities on elections, elections process, important dates, how and why to get involved.

Project Description: Creating public awareness of period poverty, menstrual equity, the health effects of inorganic menstrual products.

Project Description: A Peer-to-Peer support program for people newly diagnosed, living with or at risk of HIV/AIDS.

Project Description: Culinary Training for Black Youth to allow them to gain employment in the fast-food industry.

Project Description: Provide a safe space and mental health support and resouces for Black youth and artists to learn and talk about mental health/wellness.

Project Description: Skills Building Series incubation program to provide training, mentorship and skills development for Black youth, students and entrepreneurs.

Project Description: Provide a culturally competent coaching program for vulnerable racialized youth who are in need of learning, enhancing, or supporting life skills to effectively transition into adulthood.

Project Description: Mentorship program to provide participants with greater access to job opportunities and a nurturing environment that will enable them to thrive.

Project Description: A virtual Campus that will give students access to virtual drop-in free tutoring, educational tools, and other culturally relevant resources through an Africentric lens.

Project Description: Culturally sensitive counseling, mentoring, coaching and referrals services to eliminate black youth homelessness.

Project Description: Summer Program for Black youth in Life Skills, Literacy and Numeracy.

Project Description: The project will increase its collection of illustrated reading books offered to Black parents free, as they teach their children to read and help them develop the foundational reading skills.

Project Description: Black Youth outreach in aviation industry awareness.

Project Description: Supporting Black youth with appropriate and accessible educational resources that allow them to succeed academically, regardless of the environment in which they live.

Project Description: Youth Financial Literacy.

Project Description: Culturally adapted activities for Black children such as Summer camps, high school entrance exam preparation, and supporting parents through their children's transition to high school.

Project Description: Sylvia Parris-Drummond, CEO of the DBDLI (2015- present) A Champion for Afro-Nova Scotians, with over 30 years experience in education 2022 Queens Jubilee Recipient (Education and Community); 2022 Top 50 CEO Atlantic Business Magazine; 2020 RBC Social Change Award Recipient As an Africentric Institute, the DBDLI works directly with African Nova Scotian / Canadian organizations, communities, government partners, and educational institutions to create educational change and genuine opportunities for learners and communities of African ancestry to reach their full potential.

Project Description: Lori-Ann Green-Walker, Executive Director of WHIWH (2015- present) With over 20 years in health care management and leadership, prior to joining WHIWH CHC, Green-Walker is the former Assistant Director of Regulatory Affairs and Accreditation for Woodlawn Hospital Women’s Health In Women’s Hands (WHIWH) Community Health Centre provides primary healthcare to BIPOC women from communities in Toronto and surrounding municipalities from an inclusive feminist, pro-choice, anti-racist, anti-oppression, and multilingual participatory framework to address issues of access to healthcare for priority populations.

Project Description: Camesha Cox (Founder and Executive Director) Teacher; Ashoka Canada Fellow (2023); Toronto Foundation’s Vital People Award The Reading Partnership is a registered Canadian Charity that creates and delivers literacy-focused programs and resources in the Kingston-Galloway-Orton Park area with opportunities to be successful at all stages of life. The TRP to address these literacy challenges faced in the community and make learning exciting for both kids and their families.

Project Description: Leila Springer (Co-Founder, Executive Director) Author of “So Glad I Made It”; Life Coach; Motivational Speaker; Community Activist; Breast Cancer Survivor Winsome Johnson (Co- Founder, Director of Supportive Care) Co-founder of A-Supreme Foundation; Entrepreneur; Breast Cancer Survivor Donnaree Nairn-Tucker (Acting President) Life and Living Benefits Advisor (RBC); Adult Facilitator The Olive Branch of Hope (TOBOH) was founded by breast cancer survivors, Leila Springer and Winsome Johnson. TOBOH seeks to be the leading resource centre for women of African ancestry diagnosed and living with breast cancer, through the creation and implementation of culturally diverse resources and programs and community partnerships

Project Description: Karen Brown (Founder) Former president of SMILE; current president of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) Alethia Davis-Hecker Current Executive Director of SMILE, founding Director of SMILE Programs and Services; Career Coordinator, Ted Rogers of School of Management (TMU) S.M.I.L.E (Single Mothers Inspiring Leadership In Education) is a registered Canadian Non-profit organization, founded in 2011, helping low-income, single mothers improve their lives through education in the Greater Toronto area and abroad through partnerships with community organizations.

Project Description: Karen Carter (Co-founder and Director) Former Executive Director of Heritage Toronto, founding Executive Director of the Myseum of Toronto Founder and president of Karen Carter and Associates Cultural Consulting; CArt, the Caribbean Art Meet up Dr. Julie Crooks (Co-founder) head of the department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora at the Art Gallery of Ontario; curator of Free Black North (2017); co-founder of the Black Curators Forum Karen Tyrell (Co-founder) Member of CArt Advisory Committee ​​maxine bailey (Co-founder) ​ Executive Director of the Canadian Film Centre; former Vice President of Advancement at TIFF; NOW Toronto’s Local Heroes (2018) Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND) is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting, documenting and showcasing the artistic and cultural contributions of Black artists and cultural workers in Canada and internationally

Project Description: Viviene Dickson (Co-Founder) Top 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women honoree Chief Executive Officer of A-Supreme Foundation Winsome Johnson (Co-Founder) Co-founder and Director of Supportive Care of the Olive Branch of Hope; entrepreneur; breast cancer survivor Vivienne Duett (Co-Founder) Vice President of A-Supreme Foundation A-Supreme Foundation educates, advocates and supports low-income seniors in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton (GTHA) to live with dignity, stay connected and age in place well. Founded by three Black Jamaican-Canadian women, A-Supreme is a Black-led organization with a focus on African, Black and Caribbean communities

Project Description: Rose Ndjel, General Director Community organizer and leader; accountant Afrique au Féminin is a non-profit, charitable organization that provides support for low-income women in Parc-Extension (Montreal), with a focus on the financial and cultural autonomy of women. The organization offers support for women who are isolated, depressed, or victims of violence and the Centre operates as a space for belonging, mutual aid, mentorship and action for all women.

Project Description: Megan Vernon (Chair of the Board) Entrepreneur; Founder of the Melanin Studio BCW In Action is a Black women led bilingual, non-profit organization and registered charity with a vision to promote the empowerment of Black Canadian women, girls and families, living in Western Canada, by building self-esteem, leadership and confidence through programming and cultural activities.

Project Description: Titi Tijani, President of the Board Former Candidate for the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba community development activist; educator; immigration rights advocate Recipient of Government of Manitoba Spirit of a Community Builder Award (2014) ACOMI is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization that aims at a vibrant, engaged and sustainable African Canadian presence across Manitoba, contributing to a culturally rich and economically prosperous, socially inclusive society.