Three Black-led Baltimore nonprofit organizations — B360, I am MENtality and The Be.org — launched last week the Baltimore Legacy Builders Collective to fundraise and share a joint development team to increase organizational capacity, sustainability, and better serve the Baltimore community.

The Collective, formed by Brittany Young, founder and CEO of B-360, Darren Rogers, founder and executive director of I am MEntality, and Tonee Lawson, founder and executive director of The Be.org, was created to address funding barriers that Black-led nonprofits face.

“Traditional fundraising is still made through racial biases,” Young explained. “We need better techniques, we need people to feel comfortable, to acknowledge the elephant in the room, which is that biases get in the way,” she said, “and to undo a lot of those biases, we need to have real conversations about how we can move the needle and create better pathways.”

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