Celebrating Black History Month 2024
Every February, the U.S. honors the contributions and sacrifices of African Americans who have helped shape the nation. Black History Month was created to focus attention on the contributions of African Americans to the United States. The month honors and celebrates all Black people from all periods of U.S. history.
This month, we’re honoring and celebrating various charities and organizations that use Tiltify to support, bring awareness to issues, and elevate Black communities.
💙 Color Of Change
Support Color Of Change, the largest online racial justice organization in the country, and help us fight to end the war on Black people in our country.
We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.
💙 Black Girls CODE
Black Girls CODE is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching girls ages 7–17 about computer programming and digital technology. Founded in 2011 our organization has grown from a small grassroots organization started in the San Francisco Bay Area into an internationally chapter with over 14 locations across the US (Memphis, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, Raleigh-Durham, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Bay Area, Seattle, Miami) and in Johannesburg, South Africa.
💙 Centre for Young Black Professionals
The CEE Centre For Young Black Professionals is a charity dedicated to addressing economic and social barriers affecting black youth (18–29 years). We offer programs to improve their careers, education, and empowerment (CEE) that are holistic, person-centered, and culturally relevant. Based in Toronto, we work to strengthen the social service sector in the city by providing training in areas of responsive programming, trauma-informed care, and cultural competence to front-line workers.
Our Vision A society and economy in which Black youth achieve financial prosperity and a high quality of life for themselves and their families. We achieve this in collaboration with Black youth, their families, employers, and the broader community.
💙 Marsha P. Johnson Institute
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute (MPJI) protects and defends the human rights of Black transgender people. We do this by organizing, advocating, creating an intentional community to heal, developing transformative leadership, and promoting our collective power. MPJI seeks to eradicate systemic, community, and physical violence that silences our community from actualizing freedom, joy, and safety. We were founded both as a response to the murders of Black trans women and women of color and how that is connected to our exclusion from social justice issues, namely racial, gender, and reproductive justice, as well as gun violence.
💙 Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
The Ailey organization’s mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader Alvin Ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education, and community programs for all people. This performing arts community plays a crucial social role, using the beauty and humanity of the African-American heritage and other cultures to unite people of all races, ages and backgrounds.
Mr. Ailey said, “I am trying to show the world we are all human beings, that color is not important, that what is important is the quality of our work, of a culture in which the young are not afraid to take chances and can hold onto their values and self-esteem, especially in the arts and in dance.
💙 NAACP Empowerment Programs
The mission of the NAACP Empowerment Programs is to secure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of rights to eliminate race-based discrimination and ensure the health and well-being of all persons. Its vision is to ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race, and its objectives shall be:
- To ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality of all citizens
- To achieve equality of rights and eliminate racial prejudice among the citizens of the United States
- To remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes
- To seek enactment and enforcement of federal, state, and local laws securing civil rights
- To inform the public of the adverse effects of racial discrimination and to seek its elimination
- To educate persons as to their constitutional rights and to take all lawful action to secure the exercise thereof, and to take any other lawful action in furtherance of these objectives, consistent with the NAACP’s Articles of Incorporation and this Constitution.
