What it means
Open Society Institute publicly announced the Campaign for Black Male Achievement in June 2008 to address barriers facing Black men and boys in education, work, family, and civic life. The campaign later became an independent organization.
Open Society describes its investment as nearly $20 million over several years. That is a funding history, not a measure of the campaign’s effect on the lives of participants.
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- Where it shows up
- A new initiative points to CBMA as proof that a network will produce better outcomes.
- A useful move
- Study the campaign's aims, funding history, organizational transition, and work with local partners, then define how your network would make decisions and support implementation.
- What this does not prove
- The public launch and amount invested establish history, not the causal effect of a proposed local effort.
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