Creating Change Black Institute 2025

DAY-LONG INSTITUTE: 11:00am – 5:00pm

NBJC Presents: The Black Institute: Charting A New Way Forward Togethe

The Black and LGBTQ+ communities are the most loyal progressive voting block in the U.S. We have the receipts! #BlackFacts. Now is the time for our community to strengthen our skills, expand our knowledge, and deepen our support base to ensure all of us get and remain free – despite the hardships we soon face from the MAGA Movement. 

NBJC’s Black Institute theme, “Charting A New Way Forward Together,” is designed to ensure that the movements for racial equity and LGBTQ+ equity center Black people and intersectionality so we can become more connected and more collaborative in our work to defend and expand democracy and advance equity in spite of the MAGA of it all. The institute will include a landscape analysis and future forecasting from Black LGBTQ+/SGL movement leaders and advocates and provide opportunities for deeper connections, skills training, and resource sharing. 

The recent presidential election cycle and the politics that facilitated it will shape the decades to come, impacting the lives of Black people in our beautiful diversity in meaningful and measurable ways. Speakers will facilitate dreaming and discussion of Black futures, including strategies to develop and advance equity-anchored, pro-Black, pro-LGBTQ, pro-democracy legislation and practices that improve life outcomes and opportunities for Black people, including Black LGBTQ+/SGL people and those we know and love, at every level, recommendations to ensure that Black people thrive including by addressing persistent health disparities, proven strategies for wealth accumulation, and ensuring that the most vulnerable members of the Black community are safe, along with best practices for shifting resources from philanthropy, corporations, and wealthy individuals to advance inclusive, pro-democracy policies and practices.