EAST COAST BASED ORGANIZATIONS AND BUSINESSES

 As a consultant company, TRU SK Consultants, LLC takes pride in being  thought partners with our clients. This practice of sharing ideas and  experiences with schools, corporations and not-for-profit organizations  to help them transform and/or improve upon their organizational culture  is just one of our guiding principles. We have redefined support from  the concept of giving of advice to the development of mutually  beneficial partnership. 

THEIR MISSION 

To provide resources that enable Black men to effectively raise children and strengthen families.  

THEIR VISION

 A world where black men who have fathered children, and the  organizations that support them, have the resources they need to  effectively maintain strong black families and communities.  

 National Action Network is one of the leading civil rights organizations  in the Nation with chapters throughout the entire United  States. Founded in 1991 by Reverend Al Sharpton, NAN works within the  spirit and tradition of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to promote a modern  civil rights agenda that includes the fight for one standard of justice,  decency and equal opportunities for all people regardless of race,  religion, ethnicity, citizenship, criminal record, economic status,  gender, gender expression, or sexuality. 

        Resist is a foundation that supports people's movements for justice and liberation. We redistribute resources back to frontline communities at the forefront of change while amplifying their stories of building a  better world.                 

 The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck  at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA  testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future  injustice.  

The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities.  

To develop, promote and sponsor trusted culturally-relevant  educational forums, trainings and referral services that support the  health and well-being of Black people and other vulnerable communities.

The creation of an equitable, respectful and compassionate society.  The development of Black communities in which optimal mental health  enables children, youth, adults, and families to strive for and embrace  their best life.

 The mission of The African Diaspora Alliance (ADA) is to holistically  connect descendants of Africa to the global African community, known as  the African Diaspora. The African Diaspora Alliance serves as a  facilitator through a variety of diverse programs. 

 Through our organization we seek to educate, encourage unity, and  promote solidarity throughout the African Diaspora. Across all  borders, through the services offered by ADA the diaspora is demystified  and the mutual "exoticization" of the foreign ‘other’ is replaced with  understanding and connectedness.  

The Black Institute was founded in 2010 to advocate for the new  coming global majority based on changing demographics around the world.  It was built off the belief that issues for black people are issues for everyone.

Since then, The Black Institute has served as a hub for the community  by providing groundbreaking research, leadership opportunities, legal  and policy support, as well as implementing frontline organizing campaigns.

 We’re a nonsectarian non-profit 501(c)(3) Faith-Based Community Youth  & Family Organization that has been serving the youth of Newark and  adults, primarily in New Jersey’s South Ward and the city at-large,  since 1986.  We provide social services to over 1,500 youth from ages 7  to 19 each year, their family members, and adults, reaching out to those  suffering from poverty, family instability, and exposure to gang  culture and drugs. 

 Concerned  Black Men (CBM) was founded in 1975 when several Philadelphia police  officers sponsored social events for kids at risk to gang violence.  CBM’s vision was to fill the void of positive black male role models in  many communities by providing mentors and programs that affirmed the  care and discipline that all youth need while providing opportunities  for academic and career enrichment. While the vision of CBM’s founding  members has expanded to include children and their parents nationwide,  the philosophy of men offering themselves as positive role models to  children has remained CBM’s mission since 1975..

 We are leading the charge to close the wealth gaps that put so many African American families at a disadvantage in achieving the American dream. With the investment of individual donors, corporations, foundations and other public and private funds, we continue to raise funds to address the widening wealth gap of African Americans and other persons of color in the Baltimore region by addressing structural racism. This is viewed as a “long arc  of change,” seeking transformation that leads to sustainable outcomes for the region, versus only making transactional investments. 

 Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) is a grassroots think-tank which  advances the public policy interest of Black people, in Baltimore,  through: youth leadership development, political advocacy, and  autonomous intellectual innovation. 

 We seek to radically change the discourse around local and regional  politics by injecting community voices into political conversations  through policy research, advocacy, and community organizing from a  grassroots perspective. 

 At ONE DC, our mission is to exercise political strength to create  and preserve racial and economic equity in Shaw and the District. We  seek to create a community in DC that is equitable for all.

 We, the people of ONE DC, envision the nation's capital as a place where  low income, poor, and immigrant communities are organized, educated,  and trained to take action to create and preserve social and economic  equity.  The membership and leadership of ONE DC will build on and organize with  the participatory democracy goals and principles taught by Ella Jo Baker.

 The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (The National  Coalition) is a 501©3, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated  to increasing civic engagement and voter participation in Black and  underserved communities. The National Coalition strives to create an  enlightened community by engaging people in all aspects of public life  through service/volunteerism, advocacy, leadership development and  voting. 

 The National Coalition has served as an effective convener and  facilitator at the local, state and national levels of efforts to  address the disenfranchisement of underserved and other marginalized  communities through civic engagement  

 The Black Student Fund (BSF) provides essential advocacy, academic  and retention support to academically motivated African American and  other underserved students to facilitate their access, admission and  successful matriculation and graduation from member schools.  BSF  partners with member schools to provide financial assistance, as well as  instruction, evaluations, feedback and monitoring necessary to  facilitate the creation and maintenance of a supportive and responsive  environment.

 The International Youth Organization mission is to empower disenfranchised youth and their families to take responsibility for themselves and their community through programs and services that promote positive social and civic values; to create opportunities for self-improvement through academic instruction, employability training,  community service; and to implement intervention strategies designed to foster stabilization and neighborhood preservation. 

 As one of the only national organizations dedicated exclusively to  the success and well-being of Black children, the National Black Child  Development Institute and our National Affiliate Network have been a  powerful and effective voice on issues related to the education, care,  and health of Black children and their families... 

With a specific and relentless focus on the strengths and needs of  our communities, and a lens of cultural competence, we serve as a  national resource agency providing programs, publications, advocacy and  trainings related to early childhood care and education; health and  wellness; literacy and family engagement.