ORF Community Education Session: Minding My Black Business

Our February Open Road Fund Community Education Session will focus on business ownership and entrepreneurship. Jacob Bell from Family Freedom Center will discuss tips and advice for starting and maintaining a business, possible resources, and a brief history and importance of Black businesses to Black community stability. Minding My Black Business Wednesday, Feb. 26, 6-7:30

We have a new Open Road Fund website!

We have a story to share. About liberation, restoration, freedom, and creativity. About reclaiming our mind, body, and soul to heal from ancestral disruption and present-day displacement. We’ve been working to gain our right to self-determination through ownership of what we produce, build, and invent for our families and community. When the Bush Foundation put

Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day

“When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and

New Year Greetings from Repa Mekha

Happy New Year! During the quiet moments as one year ends and another begins, we hope you found time to rest—body, mind, and spirit. I am walking into the new year guided by my ancestors and anchored in our mission. The road ahead may not be easy, but I feel hope when I look to

Together, We’re Redefining Black wealth

Through programs like our North Star Black Cooperative Fellowship and the Open Road Fund, Nexus Community Partners is reimagining Black wealth. Building Black wealth means healing from over five centuries of labor and livelihood stolen from us on this stolen land. It’s owning what we produce and building and inventing for our families and community.

Building Community Wealth One Co-op at a Time

Together, we are building Community Wealth for a just and liberated future. Over the last 20 years, Nexus has worked to usher out the rigged rules, attitudes, and practices that concentrate wealth and power in fewer and whiter hands. For folks who have been intentionally shut out of mainstream economies, cooperatives present a tried-and-true alternative.

Meet BCLI Alumna HwaJeong Kim

When we founded Nexus Community Partners 20 years ago, we did something simple yet powerful—we turned to community to reclaim our strength and to reimagine what power looks like when it is rooted in truth and relationships. We are unique because of how we’re positioned and how we work: We take the long view, and