Beloved Community is a movement:

Since starting with a single founder in 2017, Beloved Community has grown into an organization with a $7 million operating budget, almost 30 employees, that has impacted over 500,000 individuals in a single year.

In this short time, we have built a best-in-class suite of web-based DEI products, launched an Institutional Review Board that supports community-led research, and implemented a one-of-a-kind organization-wide sabbatical that allows all staff to reclaim the right to rest.

Our new strategic plan will launch Beloved Community into the next phase of our organizational growth and development.

Read the full strategic plan here.

We’re building the future of work, a workplace that none of us have experienced before. Over the course of the next five years, we will:

  • Develop the internal infrastructure necessary to ensure fiscal security

  • Create a model anti-racist human-centered organization

  • Weave our processes for innovation and continuous improvement into our organizational DNA.

“We’re claiming it already, but we’re actually not yet [a beloved community]. This is a hope for the future.”

— Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson

Throughout the five years of this plan, we will continue to increase our utilization of data to drive innovation and continuous improvement, and to build operational excellence into our organizational DNA. These elements will permeate all that we do, enabling us to create the impact Beloved is destined to deliver.

By 2028, we will launch an independent for-profit technology company offering award-winning tools. We will be a leader in equity-focused research, training community members, redefining what counts as “legitimate knowledge,” and creating the systems to measure the effectiveness of initiatives that transform communities and improve the material conditions of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.

  • Root is going deep and enacting the full theory of change in New Orleans first– impacting policy and practice in schooling, housing, and employment. We will deepen relationships among organizations, agencies, and corporate partners to reach a tipping point in New Orleans and develop a regional model in order to scale effectively in other regions. We will also impact city/regional policy to create the conditions necessary to bring about lasting generational change.

  • Fortify is strengthening internal capacity and processes to allow us to flourish. We will create the fiscal security needed to ensure that we can enact our mission and sustain collaborative work over time. We will also develop a national board and regional advisory boards. We will build out an arc of client engagement to sustain collaborative work over time, and we will strengthen internal culture so that Beloved is recognized as the model for human-centered organizations.

  • Growth is moving beyond our current work and positioning Beloved as a national and international leader in equity-based work. We will increase our thought leadership and contributions to the field by launching a DEI technology company. We will scale to new regions and nations to increase our impact beyond existing clients.

“Now we ask ourselves – What are the next blocks that we need to build to deliver on the promise of the beloved community? That’s what this strategic plan is about. I look forward to talking with you more about where we’re headed and how we’ll get there together.”

Rhonda J. Broussard, Beloved Community CEO + Founder

To move this plan forward, Beloved Community will need your help.

We will require deep partnerships with leaders and communities who share our vision of a beloved community, and are committed to implementing sustainable cross-sector diversity and equity practices that result in economic equity for their regions.

We partnered with Integrated Impact Group for the development of this strategic plan. The IIG team collaborated across the Beloved organization to collect a range of data from inside the organization as well as from other organizations doing this work. The IIG team conducted interviews with 41 individuals, including staff, clients, funders, board members, and staff from other organizations doing work in the field.