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Beloved Community joins with the family of Tyre Nichols, the city of Memphis, and communities across the nation in mourning of a beautiful Black life. We offer our deepest condolences, and express our profound grief and rage. The loss of Tyre is yet another painful reminder of the inherently violent institutions that fray and unravel our social fabric. His name brings forward memories of all the Black lives cut short by the hands of a corrosive system founded on anti-Black racism. As we mourn Tyre, we also mourn Takar Smith, Keenan Anderson and countless others who have been robbed of life and humanity. We encourage you to take care of your emotional well-being, protect yourself and loved ones right now and always. We hope the following resources will assist each of us in intentionally practicing self- and community-care.
The Value of Building Community Power Through Research
At Beloved Community, we believe that disrupting existing power structures in research requires centering the lives of those historically excluded at every stage in research design. Interrogating power dynamics in research means re-imagining the relationship between researchers and communities. Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a research framework that emphasizes ‘power with’ and shared power. PAR encourages equitable collaboration between researchers and participants and is founded on the assumption that community members most impacted by an issue are best placed to design and implement that research.
Generation Hope Expands to New Orleans
We are excited to announce that Generation Hope is bringing its life-changing Scholar Program to a new city: New Orleans.
Beloved Community is excited to announce its commitment to Generation Hope's expansion to New Orleans c/o Founder + CEO Rhonda Broussard, by way of the Highland Project's Highland Legacy Fund. Rhonda is a proud member of the inaugural Highland Leaders cohort, which represents 15 innovators from across the nation, sectors, & generations who are building their legacies for our health, planet & voice. The Highland Project is an organization focused on building and sustaining a pipeline of Black women leading communities, institutions, and systems, resulting in the creation of multi-generational wealth and change in their communities.
What We Learned: Kansas City Equity in Schools Cohort 2
After the success of our first equity in schools Kansas City cohort, and in partnership with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Beloved Community launched our second Equity in Schools (EIS) Kansas City Cohort in July of 2021. The Beloved Community Equity in Schools Cohort Model is a nine-month intensive experience where organizations participate in four components: 1) Organization-wide Equity Audit, 2) Eight intensive Capacity Building Content Sessions, and 3) Individualized Coaching, and 4) Drafting a three-year Equity Work Plan.
Black and Bilingual
Read our Beloved’s contribution to Critical Consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education: ‘Black and Bilingual: Challenges in Decentering Whiteness in Dual Language Bilingual Education’ by Rhonda J. Broussard, Faith R. Kares, Nicole Caridad Ralston, Maria Patrizia Santos.
A key resource for supporting student needs and transformative inquiry in the classroom, this book is ideal for graduate students, professors, leaders, educators, and other stakeholders in bilingual education and language education.
What is GivingTuesday?
Beginning in 2012, GivingTuesday was created out of the simple idea to give: your time, a donation, or the power of your voice in your local community. Since then, GivingTuesday has transformed into a global movement dedicated to radical generosity. Radical generosity recognizes that each of us can drive an enormous amount of positive change by grounding our everyday actions and behaviors in giving what we can to create systemic change.
What We Learned: Indianapolis Equity at Work Cohort 2021
In January 2021, Beloved Community launched their first Equity at Work cohort in Indianapolis, IN. By the time this cohort launched, Beloved had been exclusively offering their consulting and facilitated services virtually amidst the global pandemic. The dual pandemics of systemic racism and COVID-19 did not disrupt these organizations from fully committing to: (1) eight 4-hour virtual cohort sessions, (2) individualized organizational consultation, (3) participating in an organization-wide equity audit, and (4) drafting a 3-year Equity Work Plan.
New Orleans-Based Organization Featured in New York Times Set to Host First National Convening
How Do We Make Schools Equitable and Inclusive?
In the third episode of The Hummingbird Series, principals Donnell Cannon and Jenny O'Meara talk with Leslie Brown-Rawlings, vice president of strategy at Beloved Community, and Carol Bowar of GALS Denver about equity in education.
Rhonda Broussard, Founder of the Nonprofit Beloved Community, Gets Real About Supporting Black, Queer Women at Work – and So-Called “Professional Attire”
Rhonda Broussard is an award-winning education entrepreneur, sought-after public speaker, and founder and CEO of Beloved Community. This nonprofit seeks to create sustainable paths to regional racial and economic equity at the nexus of schools, work, and home. Her vision for Beloved Community is informed by her leadership in education and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s goal “to create a beloved community” that would “require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.” Broussard is also the author of “One Good Question: How Countries Prepare Youth to Lead.”
Learn what Broussard has to say about the women who inspire her, the worst career advice she ever got, and the meeting that changed her life.