National Black Child Development Institute (NBCDI)

NBCDI is hiring a vendor — and we'd love your help spreading the word. 💜
Our Family Empowerment Program (FEP) has long been a space where parents and caregivers of Black children build their leadership and advocacy power to navigate the systems their children move through every day — health, education, nutrition, and more.

Now we're ready to evolve it.

We're seeking a vendor to reshape the 12-week curriculum into a 10-week program aligned with our Afrofuturism & Systems Change framework and Eight Essential Outcomes — including fresh content on environmental health, digital safety and AI, public policy, and advocacy & organizing.

The vendor will also design and deliver a 20-hour facilitator training and support two pilot sites running September through November 2026.

Curriculum updates are due July 17, with training wrapping by August 31.

📄 Full RFP, scope details, and submission instructions: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vXfDlUjQz6pkM1A8jbHptOUV9gIeNnJG/view?usp=sharing

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"Clean air and clean water are not amenities. They are the conditions under which children grow, learn, sleep, and dream."

Think about the children in your life. The ones you tuck in. The ones you pack lunches for. The ones who run barefoot in the yard and ask a thousand questions before breakfast.

Now think about what they're breathing. What's coming out of the tap. What's in the soil where they play.

For too many Black families, those answers are not safe ones. Not because of anything our children did — but because of decades of decisions made about where plants get built, where pipes get replaced, and whose neighborhoods get prioritized.

"Breathes Clean Air and Drinks Clean Water" is one of NBCDI's Eight Essential Outcomes because we believe environmental justice and child development cannot be separated. A child's right to thrive begins with the air in their lungs and the water in their cup.

Share this if you believe every Black child deserves both. 💛