Black Wealth Family Foundation

Advancing Black American Leadership, Innovation & Generational Wealth

Presented by the Black Wealth Family Foundation

Where Leadership Becomes Ownership

2026 Programming

The Excellence in Leadership Tour

University of Memphis — March 17, 2026

Co-hosted with DRIVE and the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute

Focus Areas:

• Workforce Development Workshop

• Leadership Roundtables

• Circular Opportunity Zone Development Preview

— TBA 2026

Focus Areas:

• CHIPS Act and STEM pathways

• Black student leadership development

• Talent and innovation showcases

• Local corporate and municipal engagement

CUNY BMI Juneteenth Summit — June 17th & 18th

Focus Areas:

• Leadership & Economic Liberation

• Jobs, Policy, and Civic Innovation Pathways

• NYC Capital Access Opportunities

• National HBCU + PWI Partnership Dialogues

Black Wealth Events (BWE) develops and activates national programs that strengthen Black America’s contribution to the national GDP through:

* Leadership Development

* Workforce Innovation

* Capital Access

* Public-Private Partnerships

* Generational Wealth Building

Our work convenes universities, investors, cultural leaders, policymakers, and global partners across America.

Our Key Initiatives

Circular Opportunity Zone Developmet

Circular Opportunity Zone Development (COZD) is a strategic framework that utilizes HBCUs as the institutional catalyst to convert undervalued land and human capital into self-sustaining innovation hubs. By anchoring development on these historic campuses, COZD integrates federal Opportunity Zone incentives with circular economy principles to eliminate “wealth leak” and secure long-term community ownership. This model transforms the HBCU ecosystem into a de-risked engine for “Structural Alpha,” aligning with Justice40 and CHIPS Act mandates to drive investment in AgTech, digital equity, and sustainable infrastructure. Governed by the BWFF 100 Family Trust and measured by the Black Economic Power Index (BEPI), COZD ensures that campus-based innovation translates into 100-year legacy wealth and national economic competitiveness.

The Wealth Weekend: Martha’s Vineyard

The BWFF 100 Family Trust serves as the foundation’s premier institutional governance wrapper, specifically architected to transition Black wealth from individual high-net-worth success into a structured model of multi-generational Institutional Stewardship. By providing a rigorous fiduciary framework, the Trust secures 100-year legacy assets through a “Success is Spiritual” lens, ensuring that private capital is protected, managed, and deployed with the same sophisticated governance as leading global family offices. This vehicle anchors a $25M capital campaign dedicated to endowing HBCU innovation labs and “Chairs of Wealth Governance,” creating a permanent economic bridge between private wealth and community-anchored Circular Opportunity Zone Developments (COZD). Ultimately, the BWFF 100 Family Trust offers a de-risked environment for wealth velocity, empowering member families to act as foundational architects of national economic competitiveness while ensuring their legacy remains protected, productive, and purposeful for generations.

BWFF 100 Family Trust

The Black Economic Power Index (BEPI) is a groundbreaking proprietary data layer and national standard-setter designed to measure the true economic agency of Black America by tracking ownership, capital velocity, and intergenerational wealth transfer. Unlike traditional metrics that merely reflect consumption or employment, the BEPI functions as a “strategic dashboard” for national economic competitiveness, quantifying the capture and control of value across key pillars: ownership and control of assets, access to institutional capital, workforce mobility in high-growth industries, and the strength of community reinvestment ecosystems. By integrating this data into the Excellence in Leadership Tour and releasing annual findings at The Wealth Weekend: Martha’s Vineyard, BWFF provides corporations, family offices, and policymakers with the institutional-grade evidence needed to de-risk investments and align with the Justice40 and CHIPS Act frameworks. Ultimately, the BEPI operationalizes the Foundation’s “Structural Alpha” strategy by providing a transparent, accountable map for how community-anchored assets are converted into permanent, multi-generational economic power.