About Us

Why Us

• The needs of the African American community because each individual, company, and program is represented by leaders who are engaged with the target population and have unique, personal, and culturally specific knowledge.
• We are organized throughout Ohio, and heavily in Ohio’s 8 large metropolitan cities and other designated cities and communities. Most leaders have over 15-years of experience and expertise in their pillar areas.
• The Collective has partnerships throughout the state of Ohio. Our work is evidenced through our collaborations with universities in Ohio.
• The group was convened to envelop issues and problems by addressing rage, hate, and racism towards African Americans with innovative strategies, love and carefully thought-out action.
• We are coming together so that we are not duplicating efforts of what already exists. We are opening up a lane to provide resources for the top three areas where racial disparities already exist and not “reinventing the wheel”.
•  We advance the black community in Ohio through our innovative solution based plans, strategies, plans, and investments into African American ecosystems in support of:
• Organizations
• Businesses
• School Districts
• Health Delivery Systems
• Minority Business Development Agencies
• Technology Hubs
• Arts Hubs
• Housing Authorities and Support Structures
• Nonprofits
• Our work solves systemic, structural, and institutional based issues due to race through  comprehensive, statewide strategies and plans that address ongoing disparities and inequities.
• We partner with stakeholder, majority led corporations, organizations and sacred sector groups to improve outcomes for black people in Ohio

The group was convened to envelop the problem of dealing with rage, hate, and racism towards African Americans with love and carefully thought-out action. We are coming together so that we are not duplicating efforts of what already exists; but. opening up a lane to provide resources for the top three areas where racial disparities already exist and not “reinventing the wheel”. We Advance black in Ohio Through Our Solution Based Plans for Organizations, Businesses, and Nonprofits through systemic investments into African American ecosystems. Nonprofits and Businesses are funded to solve systemic, structural, and institutional based racism through the comprehensive, statewide plan to  address ongoing disparities and inequities.

The Collective is a group of leaders from across the state of Ohio, many of whom are products and current leaders of the communities in which they reside. These leaders clearly understand how to serve these communities through their innovative and exceptional skill sets and abilities.  Professions among the group includes physicians, therapists, university professors and academics, corporate managers and executives, strategists and fundraisers, community development and faith based leaders, on air personalities and journalists, government, and nonprofit managers. Members frequently work, live and play in these spaces ensuring collective transformative impact in all cities.

• The Campaign for African American Achievement
• Crowder & Associates
• The Frontiers Club
• Greater Cleveland Association of Black Journalists
• Engage 4 Health
• Ohio Black Expo
• Ohio Black News Media Collective
• Ohio Department of Education
• Ohio State University
• My Cool Solutions
• NAACP Ohio
• NCUS
• Tatum Endeavor Group
• Urban League
• UMADAOP Dayton
• Walsh University
• Who’s Who in Black Ohio
• Youngstown State University

• State of Black Ohio Annual and Regional Events
• The President’s Awards (with Ohio NAACP and Ohio Black News Media Collective)
• Economic, Tech, Health and Housing Summits and Minority Business Agency Partnerships
• The Collective Institutes
  • Cliff Catchers
  • ID Movement
  • Nina Imani
  • The Workforce Development & Guidance for Employment Program
  • Transformational Business Strategy
  • Family Reads
• Workforce Development and Career Explorations Strategies
• University Student Engagement Programs