Meet a Few of Our Impact Partners
Over six years, The Flourish Collective has invested $332,395 across 23 partner organizations — trusting leaders of color to do their best work. Here are four of them.
David & Jaqueline Peters
West Oakland Cultural Action Network · Black Liberation Walking TourCommunity Development · West Oakland, CA
David Peters leads people through West Oakland's Hoover Foster neighborhood — uncovering the long history of Black culture, pride, and liberative acts that live in those streets. The Black Liberation Walking Tour isn't just a history lesson. It is a living act of community.
What makes Flourish's support matter? David put it plainly:
"The Flourish Collective's contributions are so important because they're unrestricted. Receiving money for core operating costs is tremendous. Perhaps most fundamentally, it reduces my stress, and allows me to free up time that otherwise would have been spent in additional fundraising."
Reducing stress so a leader can focus on the people they serve. That is what trust looks like in practice.
Tanisha Walton
Black Girls United Education · Berkeley, CA
When Tanisha founded Black Girls United, she had a clear vision: "A safe space, a brave space where they could learn solidarity and learn about positive body identity and image — just a place where we can embody solidarity."
Flourish has walked alongside Tanisha with five grants since 2021 — because real partnership means showing up more than once. Today, Black Girls United has had a presence on every middle school campus in Berkeley Unified. And Tanisha has built something generational: college students mentoring high schoolers, high schoolers reaching middle schoolers, middle schoolers leading reading circles for elementary students.
In 2025, the vision is expanding:
"Our endeavor this year is to widen the scope, make it a village mentality — reminding us that we are not each other's enemy. Really making that a counternarrative and having a more collective, unified resolve among ourselves."
A village. Not just for the girls — for the whole community.
Rolland Janairo & Kwondo & Alma Moore
Silicon Valley Urban Debate League Education · Silicon Valley
For SVUDL students, debate is a doorway — to confidence, to networks, to rooms they might never otherwise enter. With Flourish's support, SVUDL returned to in-person competition after the pandemic, bringing over 80 students to a Championship Tournament. For the first time in SVUDL history, they recruited bilingual judges, making the tournament fully accessible to Spanish-speaking students. Two students earned bids to the Urban Debate National Championship in Texas.
One of them, Jasper Nguyen, said it best:
"Being able to go to Dallas is going to be such a surreal experience — and being able to represent my school nationally will be the icing on the cake."
That is what access and investment looks like.
Read about our other Impact Partners here
