Funders to approach for The Black Belt Community Foundation Inc

To ensure all black belt residents live and work in healthy, prosperous, inclusive, educated, creative and giving communities. We serve twelve counties: bullock, choctaw, dallas, greene, hale, lowndes, macon, marengo, perry, pickens, sumter, and wilcox. Each of these counties is considered a "persistent poverty county" as identified through the census. Persistent poverty counties are those where 20% or more of the county residents were poor, measured by the 1980, 1990, 2000 censuses, and the 200-11 american community survey. Additionally, bbcf oftentimes invests in the following 13 states: Alabama, arkansas, florida, georgia, kentucky, louisiana, mississippi, north carolina, south carolina, tennessee, texas, virginia, and west…