DIFFvelopment

DIFFvelopment is a trailblazing nonprofit organization that aims to play a key role in driving the creation of sustainable Black personal, generational and communal wealth by empowering the next generation of Black visionary leaders to prioritize historically and globally conscious community-minded entrepreneurial activity. Through its commitment to “Re-empowering the global Black community through historically centered re-education that empowers aspiring Black visionaries to develop their world differently,” DIFFvelopment sustainably solves deep-seated historical knowledge and wealth gap issues, caused by centuries of global Black economic oppression. Targeting Black college students and recent graduates, DIFFvelopment drives this impact through life-changing summer internship, generational wealth, coaching and online resource center programs that offer Africana history training seen through an analytical economic lens and equip beneficiaries with executable business concepts, rock-solid easy to follow roadmaps for personal development and financial security and lifelong access to practical resources and a community of Black business mentors. To-date, DIFFvelopment has reached over 2,700 beneficiaries and supported the creation of over a dozen new Black-owned businesses, provided summer internship alumni with over $11,000 in business startup financing and helped nearly 90 percent of alumni in the labor force obtain gainful employment.