Jim Moran Foundation Awards $1M to Urban League and Hispanic Unity of Florida to Promote Racial Equity

To commemorate The Jim Moran Foundation’s 20th anniversary of improving the quality of life for the youth and families of Florida, the Urban League of Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) and Hispanic Unity of Florida (HUF) have each received a $500,000 grant to advance racial equity in Broward County. This $1 million investment will build the capacity for both organizations to work effectively with stakeholders to lead critical conversations about racial equity and to propose transformative solutions that address them.

The disparate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities of color underscored persistent gaps in equitable access to health care, education and employment. To address these and other root causes of racial and social inequality in the county’s Black, Hispanic and immigrant communities, ULBC and HUF will partner with Florida International University’s Metropolitan Center to launch a Broward Equity Initiative – an academic research project that will produce two comprehensive reports: The State of Black Broward and The State of Hispanic and Immigrant Broward.

“We are grateful and humbled that The Jim Moran Foundation has entrusted us to sustain the momentum towards building racial equity in our community,” said Dr. Germaine Smith-Baugh, President and CEO for the Urban League of Broward County.  “It is through such leadership and collaboration that the Urban League will be better positioned to expand our advocacy role to examine the very inequities that shape public policy, promote narrative change, and elevate critical conversations about race.”

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