KEEP ON PUSHIN'
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KEEP ON PUSHIN' *
THE BOB MOSES FUND INVESTS IN LOCAL LEADERS, ORGANIZATIONS, & INITIATIVES THAT EMBODY HIS SPIRIT AND LIFE’S WORK.
Since launching in 2022, the Bob Moses Fund has raised money and reinvested in local organizers and educators; produced a nationally-acclaimed conference; and set a course for the next five years.
$500K RAISED
$295K REINVESTED
$500K RAISED $295K REINVESTED
*LOCAL LEADERS 2023*
Jeremy Dennis -
Ma’s HouseJeremy Dennis is a contemporary fine art photographer and a tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton, NY. He founded Ma's House, an art space for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color.
Derrick Evans - Turkey Creek
Community InitiativesDerrick Evans is a historian and former Boston school teacher, leading a 20-year effort to preserve the land and history of his ancestral home in Turkey Creek, Mississippi from overdevelopment and coastal flooding.
*INITIATIVES & COLLABORATIONS*
Already in its second year, the Bob Moses Conference is a speaker series spearheaded by Dr. Janet Jemmott Moses in partnership with leading universities. With the support of renowned scholars and activists, the Bob Moses…
Bob Moses Conference
Black Men of Labor Ecumenical ServiceThe Bob Moses Fund also supports the work of the Black Men of Labor, most recently their Living Culture Celebration in 2022, a parade that honored, celebrated, and publicly commemorated the lives lost during the pandemic.
“LEADERSHIP IS THERE IN THE PEOPLE. YOU DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT WHERE YOUR LEADERS ARE, HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET SOME LEADERS. . . IF YOU GO OUT AND WORK WITH YOUR PEOPLE, THEN THE LEADERSHIP WILL EMERGE.”
— Robert P. Moses
