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The Black Parent Initiative is a community-based organization developed to address the significant and longstanding educational and life challenges facing Black students in Portland-area school districts.
Using innovative partnerships, BPI is creating and enhancing systems to provide stronger supports for Black parents hence improving the odds of success for Black children in their journey to access a quality, world-class education.
List of programs
Why does this work matter?
What are the needs of our community?
How do we achieve our mission?
By providing support to parents and extended families by ensuring they have access to the needed tools and systems in a relational and culturally specific manner that enhances the odds for their children’s success
Through establishing strategic partnerships with universities, nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies and churches to provide parents with the resources needed to encourage growth and success for their children.
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DONORS
Bank of America
Compli
The Renaissance Foundation
NW Natural Gas
Comcast
Safeway Foundation
Pacificorp Foundation
Oregon Episcipal School
Northwest Areas Foundation
Jubitz Family Foundation
National Association of Minority Contractors
Portland Trail Blazers
Bullivant-Houser-Bailey
Providence
State Farm Insurance
Legacy Health System |
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Portland Public Schools
Multnomah Education Services District
City of Portland
Larry Miller
Kenneth and Marta Thrasher
Robe Imbriano & Helena Huang
Diane McKeel
Ray and Nansie Jubitz
Gary and Kathryn Withers
Wendy Hughson
Lolenzo T. Poe
Chad Pasley
Rabbi Joseph Wolf
Cynthia Traylor
Travis Stovall
Johnell Bell
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CHURCH AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS
Northeast CommunityFour Square
Calvary Christian Center
Irvington Covenant Church
Rehoboth World Healing Center
Grace Covenant Church
St. James Truevine
Cornerstone Community Church
Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good
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Concordia University
Oregon Mentors
Albina Head Start
Portland Family of Funds
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Columbia Northwest
Multnomah County Healthy Birth Initiative
Multnomah Educational Services District Safeway |
SPECIAL THANKS
City of Portland
Portland Public Schools
Ken Thrasher
International Union of Operating Engineers
Portland Trail Blazers
Portland Schools Foundation
Pacific Power Foundation
Urban League of Portland
National Association for the Advancement of Color People (Portland)
Hands on Greater Portland
Our United Villages |
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Albina Community Bank
David M.Thompson
Oregon Department of Education
The Black Star Project
Beardsley Building Development
Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters
Sodexho
Concordia University
LiveHive Interactive, LLC
Bruce Berning, Tonkin Torp,LLP
Xavier University, New Orleans
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