Learn About the New Black Excellence Community Fund

SALISBURY, Md – A brand new community fund in Salisbury is looking to help promote Black Excellence and improve the resources available to the community.
The Black Excellence Community Fund is a giving circle by the Community Foundation of the eastern shore.

Members from the foundation work together to preserve cultural awareness and pride by expanding the benefits of education, health, and welfare in Black communities while teaching the values of philanthropy.
They are doing so by providing funding and information to local nonprofits about valuable resources that are already in place, or still needed in the community.
We spoke with the founder of this new fund — Sonya Whited who was excited by the new program and says, “It’s great to have all the money in the world but if you don’t know what to do with it, you want to be able to have the information for those resources, so that really was the impetus for this.”

“Preserving our heritage charting our future, that’s our tagline for the fund and we put a lot of work into this because we want to help the community. I think it’s very important for the community to help our community.” Whited Said.

The Fund will be announcing its first Grantee before the end of February.