The Black Star Project

Excellence in Education

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Our Supporters

We work to build strong partnerships with a broad spectrum of businesses, government entities and social service agencies to elevate the issue of the racial academic achievement gap to a higher level of awareness and in turn implement a coordinated strategy to eliminate it. The following corporations, foundations and community organizations are key partners:

Toyota Motor Sales
Open Society Institute - Campaign for Black Male Achievement
ComEd - An Exelon Company
Chicago Community Trust
Schott Foundation for Public Education
HSBC - North America - North America
ING
Genesis Wealth Management
Foley & Lardner LLP
International Profit Associates, Inc.
Albert & Anne Mansfield Foundation
Northern Trust Charitable Trust
OfficeMax
Ariel Capital Management, LLC
Chicagoland Association of Realtors
Quaker/PepsiCo Beverages & Food
URS Corporation
Chernoff Family Fund
Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Foundation
The Oppenheimer Family Foundation
SHURE Corporation

If you would like more information on partnering with The Black Star Project to ensure that all children receive an equal, quality education, please click here.

National News and Campaigns

Million Father March 2010

From Atlanta, Georgia:

“...and surprisingly, more fathers than I've ever seen, meeting and greeting teachers... bending over and reminding children to "pay attention, do your work," and of course the customary "don't act a fool on the first day of school!" “The Million Father March is a major first step in the right direction for many fathers.

Important Book: The New Jim Crow:

How the War on Drugs Gave Birth to a Permanent American Undercaste

by Michelle Alexander

Take a Black Male to Worship

The Black Star Project's Million Father Movement is partnering with the most dynamic force in the Black community--the Black church. Black churches, mosques, temples and synagogues across the country are working together on "Take a Black Male to Worship Day," Sunday, August 22, 2010.