Community

We are a national, interdisciplinary network of Black women leaders and allies who are creating multi-generational wealth building opportunities and impact in their communities around the country.

Capital

We support the Highland Community’s shared values and priorities for creating multi-generational wealth in the Black community through flexible, charitable capital.

Legacy

When we center our collective strength, power, and humanity as Black women, the possibilities are endless.

The Highland Project means sisterhood to me. We have built a community of women who have each other’s backs. Who are invested in each other’s joy, and care, and rest. And that is an incredible gift.”

– Amanda Alexander, Inaugural Highland Leader and Founding Executive Director of Detroit Justice Center

We take a holistic approach to reimagining and creating multi-generational wealth with Black women at the center.

We invest in-kind and charitable gifts across four sectors essential to building equitable opportunity and redefining wealth.
Investment areas:

Education

Economic empowerment

Political agency

Well-being

To date, our coalition represents 45 Black women and their allies across the nation who have participated in the experiences rooted in sustaining leaders, empowering individuals and the collective, adaptive leadership, allyship and lifelong learning.

Highland Leaders

To spark multigenerational change, we are reimagining capital investments.

The Highland Legacy Fund is core to the fulfillment of our mission. THP believes that centering, empowering, and sustaining Black women leadership is essential to structural change for Black communities — and, this requires increased access to capital. We advance that belief through flexible, charitable funding for the Highland Community to drive bold solutions resulting in multi-generational wealth and change for Black communities.

Highland Legacy Fund Investments

When Black women are supporting Black women, it’s different because we know - Highland women, Leaders, Gabrielle - knew what we needed because she needed it too. So the Highland way is all about Black women supporting Black women. That’s what makes Highland so different, is because it is about us.”

– Katara McCarty, Inaugural Highland Leader and Founder of Exhale App

It’s time to shift the dialogue about wealth to a dialogue about equitable opportunity.

Research, policy, and narratives create the rules of opportunity. We invest in research and narratives centering the voices, needs, aspirations, and power of Black women across the country.
Together with Highland Leaders, The Highland Project is co-creating a holistic definition of wealth with key policy priorities by 2025.

Research

What We Do

Community. Capital. Legacy.