United Black Family Scholarship Foundation

When we look to the structural environment of an underserved community and how it is created, Muhammad Yunus’s example of the bonsai tree best serves to illustrate the dynamic at play. Here, it often represents a tiny pot of ideas and seemingly limited possibilities that far too often stuns our growth.

To effectively change this dynamic, we recognize the greatest asset to an underserved community is the individual him or herself and the role they play in shaping the “Village”. They are the most vested and determined to create solutions to the social and economic problems we face. By investing in them, their education and ideas, we find the greatest potential for social change.

Thus, the primary objective of our scholarship and community grant programs is to cultivate ideas by empowering the next generation of community leaders, scholars, innovators, and change brokers with the wherewithal to create those movements that will transform our communities for the betterment of society as a whole.