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and history component is addressed via the African American Experience Timeline (www. africanamericantimeline.org), and the community support and capacity building component is addressed via the creation and launch of the BIPOC Nonprofit Development Center (BNDC). Many nonprofit organizations face growth and operational challenges such as lack of office and meeting space, insufficient staffing; inadequate IT infrastructure; minimal fundraising, minimal organizational, board-building and strategic planning training; lack of mentoring and leadership development and networking
and partnership opportunities; lack of high- level business and organizational operational experience - all of which pose barriers to success, sustainability and scalability - and which greatly diminishes their ability to deliver on their mission and reduces their impact in BIPOC and systemically underserved minority communities. To address these challenges, the RTL Foundation has created the BIPOC Nonprofit Development Center (BNDC), a first of its kind incubator for BIPOC-led and serving start-up, emerging and select established nonprofit organizations, to remove these barriers to success, to build up
27 The Acumen
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