When it comes to racial equity, which is the process of eliminating racial disparities and improving outcomes for everyone, many who live in Miami-Dade County may not know there is a coalition ready to assist.
On Wednesday, the FMU Social Justice Institute hosted the Equity and Advocacy Collective (EAC) in the Smith Conference Center to outline the Bridging the Equity Gap in Miami-Dade County’s Black Communities Impact Report.
FMU’s Social Justice Institute worked with the Equity and Advocacy Collective (EAC) to conduct an impact study and shared the findings in the meeting with more than a dozen fundraisers and stakeholders.
The objective of the Equity and Advocacy Collective (EAC), which was established in 2017, is to secure additional resources by raising the profiles of their 11 critically important, community-based, Black-led organizations in Miami-Dade County, which are the
Belafonte TACOLCY Center, Inc.; Center for Family and Child Enrichment, Inc.; The Dr. Evalina Bestman New Horizons Community Mental Health Center, Inc.; The Family Christian Association of America, Inc.; Concerned African Women, Inc.; Teen Upward Bound, Inc.; Girl Power Rocks, Inc.; Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center, Inc.; Liberty City Community Revitalization Trust, Inc.; Overtown Youth Center, Inc.; and the Gang Alternative, Inc.
Alexander Rundlet, the Acting Director of FMU’s Social Justice Institute, also spoke about the importance of reversing the paradigm when it comes to Black communities.
He added that the goal of this report is to strengthen existing partnerships and forge new ones through which the collective vision of abundant transformation for Miami-Dade County in general, and its Black communities in particular, can become manifest.
The report also examines the challenges the Equity and Advocacy Collective (EAC) member organizations face in securing funding to address the social, economic, and health inequities within the diverse communities they serve.
SJI and EAC would like to acknowledge the Center for Urban and Racial Equity, Health Foundation of South Florida, The Miami Foundation, The Children’s Trust, and United Way Miami for their continued support.
Please click to read the full report of the EAC’s work, accomplishments, and impact of its constituent organizations.
Images of the Social Justice Institute Rollout are available on FMU’s official Flickr account.
