Building Wealth For Black Women


Our Mission & Vision
Our Mission
The Melanin Project is on a mission to eradicate wealth disparities for women of the Black and African diaspora. Our programs support building generational wealth through advocacy, personal empowerment, and financial wellness coaching.
Our Vision
At The Melanin Project we imagine a world in which every single woman of the Black and African diaspora owns enough assets and wealth to leave to the next generation. This is our project.
Start Your Journey
Feeling stuck? At a crossroads with your financials? Even the strongest among us can feel lost, unsure, ambivalent, or unhappy at times. As a Financial Wellness Coach, I can help you understand your relationship with money and teach you the strategies you need to be successful in building generational wealth.
I believe that you have the strength not just to survive, but to truly thrive. Before you even start putting numbers on a spreadsheet, there are some things you need to know. Its called AODEC.........
Our Services
FINANCIAL WELLNESS COACHING
We coach you in understanding how to create and maintain a budget, manage and reduce debt and start saving.



EMPOWERMENT
We empower you to build community. We educate you on the financial public health crisis facing Black America and we encourage you to continue to educate yourself and those around you. This helps build community.



AODEC PRINCIPLES
We coach you on behavioral strategies that will support you in building wealth. In order to be successful with managing your lifestyle you need to be aware of potential triggers.



ADVOCACY
We understand that many Black Americans are so impoverished that we must advocate for programs, systems and policies to help reduce the wealth gap. The Melanin Project supports the dismantling of systems that have supported the oppression of Black people for generations.



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Why Advocacy?

As of 2013, Black women had a median net worth of $200 compared to the median net worth of $15,640 for White women and $28,900 for White men
As of 2017, approximately, 8.4 million households don't have a banking account because they lack the funds necessary to open and maintain it. Those households are disproportionately people of color; nearly half of Black households are unbanked or underbanked.
Instick Media

In 2016, Black families, on average, had a net worth of 10 cents to the dollar of the typical White family, while women owned 32 cents on the dollar when compared to men. The intersection of those two gaps sees Black women bearing the brunt of wealth inequality. That wealth inequality is made worse by a pay gap in which Black women earn 61 cents for each dollar their White male counterparts do.
Forbes Magazine

Neither a college education nor a lifetime of work has provided the true solution to closing the wealth inequality gap between single Black women and single White women, as single White women have benefited far more from wealth being passed down to them from their families in contrast to that of Black women. This leads White women to rely less on debts like student loans, in comparison to Black women. A member of a White family is twice as likely to receive an inheritance in comparison to a Black family member, and the inheritance received is usually three times larger than what the Black family member would have received. For those families with inheritances to give, the White family’s wealth is likely to be 7.5 times larger than that of the black family’s wealth. For every dollar of wealth owned by a typical White family, the median Black family owns just five cents.
Black Enterprise

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