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Associated Black Charities outlines programs, events and funding at commission meeting
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Bernard Sims, senior director at Associated Black Charities, presented ABC's history, programs and upcoming events (including a large Financial Literacy Summit with more than 800 registrants); he said the group's funding is primarily corporate and philanthropic, not federal.
Bernard Sims, senior director of culture and community at Associated Black Charities, told the Baltimore County commission that ABC is a 41-year-old race-equity organization focused on upstream, systems-level work to address institutional racism.
"We are a 41 year old organization," Sims said, describing ABC as "an educator, advocator, and a supporter and convener to address and eliminate the various causes of institutional structural racism." He said ABC's work targets racial wealth gaps, workplace discrimination, health inequities, housing and educational disparities.
Sims outlined several ABC programs: the ABC Academy board…
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