HBCU Financial Resilience as Restorative – Not Just a Glow-Up!

Financial health is just as vital as physical or mental health. Co-hosted by Self-Help Credit Union and Reinvestment Fund, we'll explore enterprise innovation and reinvestment strategies that position HBCUs to move from "surviving" to "thriving" by treating our institutional finances as a living, breathing health system. In this kickoff to a 2-part series exploring the future of legacy preservation and sustainability in the Black community, we will offer a “wellness menu” framework that reverberates at every level of the Black community – from our families to our alma maters and organizations!

This is not your run-of-the-mill, standard 'banking panel.' While we are gathered for soul restoration during the 10th Anniversary of HBCU Legacy Week on the Vineyard, let’s discuss the role we can all play in leveraging private capital as institutional wellness “treatments” for the vitality of our storied institutions. We will discuss:

• How does mission-driven private investment advance restorative practices by preserving the legacy Black communities?
• What role can private investment play in amplifying the power storied Black institutions like HBCUs have to achieve a 23rd century future of innovation, economic justice, and cultural sustainability?
• What role can you plan right now?

Self-Help and Reinvestment Fund are facilitating a powerful conversation about aligning mission-driven capital with community legacy, restorative economic justice, and institutional excellence along with examples of how that work is happening right now in real time with HBCUs. Get ready to walk away with information and homework to help you take an active role in modernizing Black community infrastructure, enterprises, and resilience.

Anticipated featured guests:

• Dr. Margaret Burnham, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Northeastern University & Founder, Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project and Burnham-Nobles Digital Archive
• Marland Buckner, President & CEO, Shockoe Institute
• Philip Howard, Director of Legacy Places, The Conservation Fund
• Christina Alexis, Reinvestment Fund (moderator)
• Dr. Shandra Jones (Dr. J), Self-Help (moderator)