Current Programs

The Alliance also works to solve current and urgent problems; it is currently engaged in three programs:

1. Building the Economic Base
   Business development for New York City contract opportunities
   Work has begun on a model to help more black businesses obtain contracts with the City of New York. The goal is to help organizations and agencies that work with black businesses increase the number of new contracts awarded to their clients.
   
   
2. Enhancing the Capacity of the Not-For-Profit Sector
   The Leadership Learning Series, managed by the Black Agency Executives, is designed to build a network of exceptional black executives, managers and board members who lead and govern not-for-profit agencies and ensure a sustainable and positive impact on black communities and residents.
   Capacity building grants program will be initiated to provide funding [less than $15,000] for consulting services, information technology, training, planning, or other operational needs for qualified organizations to assist in their sustainability.
   
   
3. Advocacy for Policy Changes
   The Child Welfare Advocacy Initiative was created to help strengthen minority-governed foster care agencies and their interaction with public funding sources and systems to more effectively serve predominately black constituencies and communities.
   New Yorkers for the Gulf Coast is a program that was created immediately after the 2005 hurricanes in the southern Gulf Coast to assist the approximately 3,500 evacuees living in New York as well as the equitable rebuilding of the lives and communities of the residents of black communities there. It currently involves approximately 400 black community and business leaders and has funding from United Way of America.
   The State of Black New York City 2007 is a research-based report developed in collaboration with The New York Urban League. Modeled after the National Urban League’s annual report, the purpose of SoBNYC 2007 is to illuminate and update the data documenting the facts of life for Blacks of all strata in NYC to influence program and policy design in the public and private sectors.