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A catalyst for collective change and wisdom
About Us
The Network for the Advancement of Black Communities (NABC) aspires to build a strong and sustainable Black community sector by enabling the conditions for systems change.
We do this collaboratively through network convening, knowledge mobilization, service coordination, evaluation, learning, policy, research, and smart grantmaking.
NABC provides innovative support to organizations and groups to strengthen their adaptive capacity to be effective participants and leaders in driving positive outcomes for Black communities locally, regionally, and nationally.
We care about the collective impact of NABC as a network. Critical to this endeavour is our ability to generate collaborative learning, policy analyses, and learning opportunities through the use of data, evaluation, and advocacy in the Black community sector.
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What We Offer
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.