Community Build Inc.

“Beauty for Ashes” is a storytelling and resource-sharing initiative for families impacted by the wildfires. We’ll document their experiences through portraits and interviews, create a printed book amplifying their voices, and build a centralized hub to connect them with vital resources. This project is designed to help families rebuild, be seen, and feel supported—while healing and empowering a community that has long felt overlooked.

Our project (EEBW) delivers wrap-around resources and solutions to eliminate barriers that impede equity for single-parent-led Black families. By operationalizing a three-pronged approach to economic empowerment, we will arm Black women with a family equity-audit and economic advancement plan, provide wrap-around support and resources to elevate their financial trajectory, and advocate to identify/eliminate local policies that alienate Single Black parent-led families that impede equitable access to opportunities and wealth-creation.