Join the OHBCUD 40 Acres Initiative

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Renew the call. Build what comes next.
For ten years, the Office of HBCU Development and International Cooperation (OHBCUD) has helped build connections among HBCUs, African universities, and the African diaspora. Now we’re working to turn those connections into a coordinated, resourced network for the decade ahead. 

 

The 40 Acres Initiative is a call to invest in that shared future—supporting partnerships, students, entrepreneurs, and community-led priorities across the diaspora and the African continent.

• Give monthly @$40/month 

• or Make a one-time gift of $1000 as a 40 Acres Initiative lifetime member 

 

A decade of partnership. A stronger network for the next.
OHBCUD’s first decade established a foundation for collaboration: more than 30 HBCUs connected with institutions across 36 African countries, and online learning reaching registrants in 26 African nations. The next step is to strengthen coordination, resource promising work like the UNDP timbuktoo project, and measure progress across OHBCUD's HBCU/PBI network.

We believe HBCUs, African universities and the organizations that support them are not competitors. We are partners. And the diaspora is not separate from the continent—it is part of a shared future.

 

Your support can help advance six priorities:

• AI and digital equity: Support collaboration on AI education, digital

infrastructure, and ethical governance

• Business and entrepreneurship: Grow entrepreneurial pathways, workforce programs, and pitch-competition opportunities.

• Health and telemedicine: Build partnerships connecting HBCU health expertise with community health priorities.

• Youth leadership: Give young people meaningful roles as designers and
  leaders of the work.

• Women’s advancement: Strengthen women’s leadership, entrepreneurship, and health initiatives.

• Elder wisdom and legacy: Preserve community knowledge through
  mentorship, oral history, and intergenerational work.

Help build a durable source of support
The 40 Acres Initiative is designed to mobilize recurring contributions and partnerships for the work ahead. We are prioritizing an initial development fund for scholarships and other academic plus workforce partner support, followed by a longer-term pooled resource strategy. The campaign’s immediate focus is to invite alumni, Divine 9 NPHC members, friends, institutions, and partners to take part in building that foundation.​

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A monthly gift of at least $40 is key to sustainability of the shared resources we are building. You can also support the effort through institutional partnership, program collaboration, or another contribution that fits your capacity. ​

What we’re working toward
With partners, OHBCUD aims to continue building beyond individual institutional connections toward a coordinated network with named leads, accessible work plans, and measurable outcomes.
 

Progress will be tracked through indicators such as participating schools, courses completed, jobs and startups secured, scholarships and micro-grants provided, and youth, women, and elders served.

Ten years in, the mission continues
Renew the call. Fulfill the mission. Help ensure the future.

Questions or partnership inquiries: vcw.ohbcud@gmail.com

The Office of HBCU Development & International Cooperation, Inc. is a 501c3 organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

 

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