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The Terrible Beauty Of Hip Hop, Ft.Ivan Kilgore,Mike B & Big Chief at O.T.S Studio!
The Terrible Beauty Of Hip Hop, Ft.Ivan Kilgore,Mike B & Big Chief at O.T.S Studio!
Two New Amazing Board Recruits
David McDaniel and Catherine Perkins are just amazing people! And WE want know you to how they have been there for our founder in building this organization. For the past two years, David and Ivan were incarcerated at Solano State Prison in Vacaville, California....
A Queen, Two Kings & A Vision
David McDaniel, Catherine Perkins and Kenneth Roebuck are just amazing people! And we want you to know just how they have been there for our founder in building this organization. That said, we're excited to announce they have entered into our board of directors...
Black Lives Matter Movement
Have you ever read or heard about a click of rogue California correctional officers dubbed the “Green Wall?” What about the Oakland Police Department’s “Riders?” Or the “Rampart Division” of tine LAPD? How about those “Gladiator Fights” orchestrated by prison officials at the California State Prison, Corcoran, which resulted in 31 prisoners killed by police bullets? Certainly, you heard about the white police officer in OKC who was recently sentenced to 266 years for raping black women? Or the 21 or better officers at the LA County jail who were recently sentenced to federal prison? And who could forget Rodney King or what racist pigs did with fire hoses during the 1960s? It wasn’t that long ago.
Leadership
Tiffany Munoz, Mark Ledbetter and Yusra Dawood By Mark Ledbetter According to the national bestselling author Mark Sanborn, "[leadership is] an invitation to greatness we extend to other”. What started out as a mere interview turned into me receiving and accepting...
ILLUMINATION–A Testimony of Education & Experience
By Tiffany Munoz I would like to tell you a story about education, hope, leadership, and critical resistance. To do so, I must take you back to the fall of 2018. At this time in my life, I was a junior enrolled in a course called Social Problems taught by Megan McDrew...
Road Trip to Oklahoma City
By Yusra Dawood As a University of California, Santa Cruz student interning with the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation, I recently had the opportunity to travel to Oklahoma City for a Nonprofit Coaching & Leadership Training event. It was life-changing....
Testimony-4-Kids History
Coach Andrae Tramble has put his blood, sweat and tears into building AAU basketball teams. Over the course of the past over 15 years, he has dedicated himself to this cause. Ballin' Babez's humble origins began with a group of girls that formed together from the YMCA...
In Loving Memory of Lavell Harris III
It is with a great sense of pain and loss that we announce the recent passing of UBF Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr. Phillip Lavell Harris III. A longtime friend of our founder, Ivan Kilgore, Lavell a.k.a. “Comedian Velly Vel—Big Belly All”—passed from...
Old Books & New Discoveries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFW1CQSjWaA By Ivan Kilgore The one perk prison affords is the opportunity to catch up on centuries of literature. The degree of consciousness, the discovery of concepts centuries old, the development of ideas, and so much more I have...
Raffle Contest
Say fam we just setup our first raffle prize fundraiser. $5 buy-in for the opportunity to win over $120 worth of gift cards and other items. Check it out at:
Road Trip Fundraiser
The project aims to provide students with an opportunity to gain hands-on experience and job training in the nonprofit sector. In addition, the interns will obtain real-world skills related to donor prospects research, communications, program development, administration of grant procurement, and fundraising for real community projects that make a difference.
Sponsorship Opportunity
We’re offering a number of perks commensurate to your funding level….
UBFSF Is Excited To Announce Our 2020 College Internship Program
the project enables interns to obtain real-world skills related to donor prospects research, communications, program development, administration of grant procurement, and fundraising for real community projects that make a difference.
Go-Fund-Me: 100 Prisoner Book Publishing Project
I was put in contact with Ivan Kilgore, the founder of the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation, during my last year in college, where I was chasing my passion for criminal justice reform through research. I was immediately impressed and intrigued by Mr....
A Critique On Inside/Outside Organizing By Alan Schultz
Organizations that are supposed to assist in liberating or improving the living standards and cultural fabric of a community must learn to be transparent, accountable, and able to accept critique. If your organization professes to put the needs and dignity of...
Fresh UBF T-shirts! Buy today & Support a Great Cause!
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THE UNITED BLACK FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION IS SEEKING VOLUNTEER EDITORS
If you have the skills of a writing editor, and would like to take part in bringing to life the stories of our voiceless ones - those hidden from society, you can become their voice by assisting with the publication of their untold stories in the UBF's “100 Prisoner...
Now Available! Domestic Genocide: The Institutionalization of Society by Ivan Kilgore
NOW AVAILABLE! Domestic Genocide. Kindle $3.99@ https://www.amazon.com/Domestic-Genocide-Ivan-Kilgore-ebook/dp/B00HNSLUAG In...
UBF Scholarship Award
UBF Scholarship Award Requirements Applicants Must Meet All General Criteria Requirements Listed below: Enrolled in at least 12 units at either a two or four year community college or university in the united states; If not college, enrolled in a vocational or trade...
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