Focus areas for the BEA Foundation include:
- Workforce development and the future of work;
- Expanding access to capital for Black businesses;
- Wealth creation for black people and businesses;
- Protecting safety net programs that enhance wages;
- Ending explicit and unconscious discrimination, and increasing representation; and
- Maximizing the benefits of opportunity zones in Black communities.
Policy Focus
Collaborating with research institutions, think tanks, and policy experts focused on economic policies that impact Black communities.
Convening partners regularly around timely policy issues affecting the Black community.
Conduct focus groups on economic issues and Black population surveys.
Black economic data aggregation and analysis (e.g., Bureau of Labor Statistics, Census Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor).
Machine learning/AI to derive correlations between policy decisions and impact on Black economic health.
BEA Policy Research
Top Goals & Priorities for Black Workers
- Two-day forum with multiple policy think tanks, challenging them to present African-American specific economic ideas
- Sponsored policy research
- Sponsored focus groups with grassroots Blacks in multiple geographies to understand what they would value
- Sponsored surveys as to what policy issues would motivate Black voters to vote