When we center our collective strength, power, and humanity as Black women, the possibilities are endless.
We are a national, interdisciplinary network of Black women leaders who are creating multi-generational wealth building opportunities and impact in their communities around the country.
We support Leaders with the tools needed to spark and sustain change, including $100K in unrestricted, charitable capital to imagine and build their visions.
When we center our collective strength, power, and humanity as Black women, the possibilities are endless.
– Kaya Henderson, Inaugural Highland Leader and Former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools
We invest in-kind and charitable gifts in Black women leaders 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 30 Black women across the nation who have participated in the Highland Experience, an 18-month journey rooted in sustaining leaders, empowering individuals and the collective, adaptive leadership, and lifelong learning.
– Amanda Alexander, Inaugural Highland Leader and Founding Executive Director of Detroit Justice Center
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 for Black women leadership. We advance that belief through direct, unrestricted funding for Highland Leaders who are driving bold solutions resulting in multi-generational wealth and change for Black communities.
– Katara McCarty, Inaugural Highland Leader and Founder of Exhale App
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.