The 508(c)(1)(a) New Millennium Faith-Based Initiative

III. Sustainability & Compliance
Economic Emancipation
and Fundraising
Just as Reverend Leon H. Sullivan once
embraced the idea of Economic
Emancipation for people of color, we
must now embrace its logical extension,
Economic Emancipation for our
Community and Faith-Based
organizations, many of which arose out
of the very movement embraced by our
predecessors, in order to help them
more fully fulfill their manifest destinies.
During the most recent recession, many
of our charitable organizations suffered
near-fatal setbacks. Most have yet to
fully recover, and, unfortunately, some
will not ever recover. But there are
important lessons-learned in order to
prevent the same thing from happening
all over again one day. And as we move
forward, we must now help them not only
to recover, but learn to thrive as well,
even in the aftermath of the devastating
losses. We must help these
organizations break the dependency on government funding and develop their own
ability to operate and raise funds independently, while simultaneously helping them
learn to “think outside the box” with regard to their sustainability and survival.
This project is designed to do exactly that. It is a natural extension of the Sullivan
movement of the prior eras when those individuals who pressed-forward to achieve their
own economic emancipation evolved their causes, as well as their communities, into
powerful forces, economically, which are right now under attack and in imminent danger
of being eradicated right out of existence.
- Jack Johnson
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“The genius of America has been in the nation’s ability to solve our greatest problems:
whether it be in the expansion of frontiers, the building of cities, or putting a man on the
moon. In the past there has been no problem too great for America to solve.”
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