Rebuilding the Community from within the Community
You’re shuffled through a sliding chain link fence onto a small patch of aging concrete enclosed by more fence. The height of it is daunting and as you look up, you notice more razor wire topping it. You peer to your right and see the tall octagonal structure with the...
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....
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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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.
We’re offering a number of perks commensurate to your funding level….