AfroPresencia supports community groups through fiscal sponsorships
In order for your organization, group, or project to qualify for fiscal sponsorship with AfroPresencia, you must have a clear mission that aligns with AfroPresencia: this means your organization must be working to empower/focus on communities of African descent.
As your fiscal sponsor, we act as an umbrella organization to aid community-based groups who don't have the time, staff, or financial resources to pursue and maintain tax-exempt status. For an administrative fee of 8% we help organizations increase their ability to fundraise, which means we will:
maintain bookkeeping for your project
provide tax receipts to all donors over $250 (per IRS requirements)
Currently sponsored organizations include:
“Black Brooklyn’s Builders” is an ongoing project designed to highlight the early African American contributions to the making of Brooklyn.
The Art of Words Community School (TAWCS) is a K-12th grade school that uses art and literature as its teaching tool, while Progressive, Social Justice, and Community-Based learning are core in its content.
FUNDACIÓN PROMOCIÓN HUMANA Y COMUNITARIA plan to sponsor Covid-19 testing and education in low income areas in southern Guayaquil. They also plan put into place a framework to begin vaccinations in southern Guayaquil communities.
S.O.O.N
. (Sistahs Overpowering Other Nonsense) looks to plant several seeds of self-empowerment within the souls of its chosen program participants over a course of 8-10 weeks.
S.O.O.N
. hopes that the seeds of self-empowerment planted will flourish as each participant develops into an adult.
Flatbush Cleanup is a network of community residents who conduct neighborhood beautification efforts in Brooklyn, New York.
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Rose Pan African School of the Arts caters to primary school-aged students in the provinces of northern Senegal outside of Dakar. This school provides nutritional breakfast and lunch from RPA’s community garden, and is geared towards introducing children at a young age to Black feminist and diasporic knowledge.
A Place of Love Charity’s goal resides in getting people proper healthcare, helping to eradicate hunger and assisting our communities in both Jamaica and the USA to get out of hardship.
Past Projects
In January 2019, AfroPresencia.org hosted the screening of the film “Mama Africa” by the director Benito “Ifayemisi” Marquez. “Mama Africa” is a documentary that examines the links between the Republic of Nigeria and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The screening took place at the African-food-themed restaurant Amarachi on Bridge Street in Brooklyn.
From 2010 to 2011, AfroPresencia.org worked with the director Shawn D. Wilson, to support the production of the film “Separate But Equal: The Film.” This documentary depicted the lives of middle-class African Americans in Greenville, Mississippi in the mid-20th century––during the era of legal segregation.
From February 1-28, 2010, AfroPresencia.org hosted “Pyramid Theory” a gallery showing featuring the art of Baltimore, MD-based artist Eugene Coles.
On January 18, 2009, AfroPresencia.org hosted an “Inaugural Party for President-elect Barack Obama” at the Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center/African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI).
In February 2008, AfroPresencia.org hosted the conference “Healthcare in the Black Americas” at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. It featured paper presentations about a variety of health-related topics regarding communities of African descent in the Caribbean and North, Central, and South America.