A catalyst for collective change and wisdom
Long-standing systemic challenges confronting Black Communities cannot be addressed unless we tackle the underlying causes. Through our systems thinking, network impact, and systems change approaches, we provide organizations and leaders with a range of tools to address systemic challenges.
Learning is at the core of systems change. We provide innovative supports to organizations and groups to strengthen their adaptive capacity to be effective participants and leaders in driving positive outcomes for Black Communities.
Training, complemented with mentoring, coaching and other learning effectiveness activities, is key to building individual and organizational capacity. The training we offer through workshops, webinars, etc. is complemented with access to high quality capacity building resources and tools.
Our evaluative activities, beyond the provision of expertise and advice to organizational leaders, include collaborative efforts to integrate Africentric values in the field of evaluation
Our network brings together organizations, groups, partners, funders and allies to create optimal conditions for collaboration. Through network weaving and convening, and network capacity building activities, we engage in order to address root causes of systemic challenges of Black Communities.
Our government relations and public policy work aims at advancing the interests of Black Communities in creating transformative relationships with governments and sector allies to address long-standing systemic challenges confronting our communities.
We generate, synthesize and disseminate knowledge that impacts programs, organizational practices and government policies.
We provide service coordination supports under the Enhanced Ontario Black Youth Action Plan to various clusters of Black-led organizations providing various services to children, youth and families.
We work with Black-led organizations, governments, philanthropic and sector allies to design and implement grants that build organizational and collective capacity in Black-led organizations, networks and grassroots. Our grantmaking practices create collaborative opportunities for learning and deepening impact.
Published: May 2025 Meet the Team Nafissa Nur Ashley Dornan Mahado Mohamed Hassan Org Spotlight: Afiya Care Collective Afiya Care Collective, founded by Mahado Mohamed Hassan, a public health professional; Ashley Dornan, a registered nurse
Published: May 2025 Meet the Team Org Spotlight: Sankofa Farming Cooperative Sankofa Farming Cooperative, a Black-led project based in Montreal, is rooted in land sovereignty, food justice, and community healing. Through its work, the cooperative
Published: May 2025 Meet Bukola Ojemakinde Navigating Mental Health as an Immigrant Woman Bukola Ojemakinde is a dedicated advocate for Black immigrant women and girls, committed to creating inclusive spaces and providing vital community support.
Published: May 2025 Meet Bethlehem Mulat The True Cost of Performative Allyship In 2020, the world turned its attention to Black lives. Many Black-led organizations witnessed an outpouring of support, a surge of donations, solidarity
Published: May 2025 Meet Lydia Nimbeshaho Building Stronger Communities Through Collective Healing Lydia Nimbeshaho founded Beyond the Veil Mission, an organization that provides culturally relevant mental health support for communities impacted by trauma, displacement, and
Published: May 2025 Meet Faith Greaves The Emotional Toll on Mental Health Advocates Faith Greaves is a dedicated community leader and advocate working on the frontlines of mental health, programs, housing, and food security. Known
“Having led a network of 11 Rwandan Canadian agencies during the pandemic, I can’t imagine what the pandemic would have been like for our members without the Network’s support.
The Network for the Advancement of Black Communities (NABC)’s support allows our member agencies to deliver much needed COVID-19 Emergency Support, and as we transition into the recovery phase, NABC continues to support our work by offering facilitation programs & services, such as capacity building training, collaborative support, and perhaps more importantly; NABC continues to represent African Canadian community issues at the decision tables, while working to influence policy change in various areas at local, regional and federal levels.”
Nafisa Mohamed (She/Her)
Senior Coordinator, Internal Systems and Initiatives
Sarah Mekonen (She/Her)
Senior Coordinator, Communications and Digital Content
RaeChelle-Faith Ankamreddy (She/Her)
Senior Government Relations and Policy Analyst
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Rosemary Erskine (She/Her)
Director, Organizational and System Capacity
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Allan Boesak (He/Him)
Director, Youth, African Diaspora and Continental Engagement
Denise Challenger (She/Her)
Director, Network Weaving and Learning
Yonatan Ghebray (He/Him)
Associate Executive Director
amanuel melles (He/Him)
Executive Director
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