In early 2020, Team R3SET and Berkshire black leaders convened its first Multicalloborative Equity Initiative for community and economic success to discuss and address priority issues and concerns facing the local BIPOC community.  INSERT INITIAL SUCCESS REPORT FINDINGS/PRIORITIES HERE.  As a result, there has been a concerted effort to develop a strategy and plan for the ongoing learning, planning and development necessary to achieve these goals and solve these issues.  

[The Blackshires Community Empowerment Foundation has successfully launched a leadership accelerator program to address the need expressed in that initial Idea Jam and is actively growing the capacity of local leaders to engage and take action.] INSERT SUCCESSES AND HIGHLIGHTS AS A RESULT

We conducted an additional Idea Jam with Blackshries leadership accelerator cohort in March 2023.  INSERT 2023 FINDINGS AND PRIORITIES HERE.

This series will follow-up on those findings and priority issues in order to both update and delve deeper into the issues in order to develop solutions and potential plans to address the community’s needs.