Jul 2, 2020
The recent global social justice movement has compelled large corporations to throw millions of dollars to Black organizations following the same-o-same-o processes that amount to monies not necessarily getting to where they need to be to have an impact on underserved communities and Black-owned businesses. Dr. Kelly Burton, President of Founders of Color developed a 10-step roadmap for the Corporate sector to stop spinning their wheels and perpetuating cycles of funding that doesn’t lead to sustainable growth and social mobility in communities of color. We asked Kelly to expand on this topic in this episode of I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY and to tell us why she had to address the shortcomings of knee-jerk investments to “fix” the inequity problem. Kelly and a group of leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs from across the U.S. launched the Black Innovation Alliance, a united front that will leverage their power and use capital, education, public policy, research, and media as their change agents. They will ensure that Black people may participate in the innovation economy as builders, owners, and creators, not just as source material, workers, and consumers, rejecting the mining of the Black community for labor and ideas.