"Over the next five years, Family Freedom Center's goal is to transform our organization into a hub for black and brown families from all around the Twin Ports to be able to come to and exist to learn to grow to dream but most importantly to to plan and to map out those dreams," Jacob Bell, executive director of the center in Duluth, Minn., tells the Duluth News Tribune.
The center has received a $500,000 grant from the Duluth Spirit Area Community Foundation to create a "hub for African-heritage economic, social, and cultural excellence in Duluth's Central Hillside community," per a press release.
The center aims to "remove barriers and create opportunity for folks; resiliencethriving communities, thriving families, thriving people bouncing back from the hardships that come; and belonginghow do we come together, how do we gather as people in a time that's fraught and fractured," says CEO Shaun Floerke.
The center will use the grant to expand existing programs and start new ones with community partners.
"There's been decades of disinvestment and underinvestment in a number of the Hillside neighborhoods, and it's only going to be through the leadership and participation of Hillsiders themselves working in partnership with organizations like Zeitgeist and the Freedom Center and
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