Our Mission: Architecting the Future of Black American Wealth

BWFF is a platform for institutional coordination, capital stewardship, and generational wealth design. We convene leaders across finance, education, policy, entrepreneurship, and culture to help build durable economic infrastructure for Black America.

What We Believe

We believe that long-term wealth requires more than access. It requires governance. It requires trusted relationships. It requires systems that connect leadership, ownership, capital, and place.

BWFF was built to help move this work from aspiration to structure.

Our Three Strategic Pillars

Economic Competitiveness
We strengthen Black economic positioning by advancing leadership, innovation, workforce pathways, and capital access across sectors.

Sustainable Communities
We support place-based models that connect institutions, communities, and investment into long-term economic ecosystems designed for resilience and growth.

Generational Wealth
We help shift the conversation from short-term wins to long-term stewardship, governance, continuity, and family-centered wealth design.

How We Work

Convene

We bring together institutions, investors, founders, universities, and cultural leaders in environments designed for trust and strategic alignment.

Design
We shape frameworks, partnerships, and initiatives that move beyond visibility into durable operating structures.

Activate
We launch engagements, forums, and experiences that create real pathways to collaboration, opportunity, and ownership.

Measure
We believe outcomes matter. Our work is designed to support long-term accountability, alignment, and measurable economic progress.

BWFF 100 Family Trust

BWFF 100 Family Trust
A governance-centered ecosystem for families, stewards, and aligned institutional leaders committed to long-term wealth continuity, capital discipline, and legacy planning.

The Family Trust is designed to support the deeper conversations required for stewardship, continuity, and multigenerational economic strength.

A Message from the CEO

To our partners, stewards, and visionaries:

We are living in a moment that requires more than symbolic progress. It requires institutional clarity, disciplined partnership, and the courage to build what will last.

At BWFF, we are committed to creating environments where leadership becomes ownership, where capital moves with intention, and where legacy is designed with care. Our work is grounded in the belief that Black American economic power must be structured, protected, and sustained across generations.

Whether through the Excellence in Leadership Tour, The Wealth Weekend, Circular Opportunity Zone Development, or the BWFF 100 Family Trust, we are building pathways that connect today’s leadership to tomorrow’s infrastructure.

We are not simply gathering people. We are architecting relationships, frameworks, and opportunities designed to endure.

In pursuit of excellence,

LaMar Wright
CEO & Founder
Black Wealth Family Foundation