We build stronger communities by equipping at-risk youth with tools to lead, create, and thrive—while using media, mentorship, and strategic storytelling to confront real issues and drive change.
Through powerful content, career-connected training, and community conversations, BANC is transforming how we address crime, culture, and opportunity.

B.A.N.C

Black Action Network

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VISION

BANC (Black Action Network Committee) is a community development engine focused on reducing crime, boosting workforce readiness, and driving economic opportunity by investing in at-risk youth across growing communities.

Our vision is to become a full-circle ecosystem where young people gain exposure to diverse career paths, develop marketable media and leadership skills, and participate in transformative mentorship that prepares them to shape the future.

Through youth storytelling initiatives, hands-on media production, high-level project management, and curated leadership development, BANC is building real capacity from the ground up. From quarterly luncheons and trauma-informed community discussions to powerful video content and youth-led campaigns, we are creating safer, stronger, and more economically vibrant communities.

In time, BANC will evolve into a hub that not only develops leaders—but funds them—by offering mini-grants, strategic support, and content campaigns to help grassroots solutions take root and scale.

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IMPACTFLUENCE

Workforce development through media, mentorship, and project-based leadership

Impactfluence is a media-powered workforce training program that equips at-risk youth with in-demand skills in storytelling, filmmaking, editing, and branding.

Participants receive real-world, in-the-field media training, take on major projects, and are supported by professional mentors who challenge them to build both their craft and their character.

Each participant also creates a strategic life plan, setting long-term personal and career goals—because developing leaders starts with developing the self.

Thinking Above the line
Show & Luncheon

Trauma-informed conversations that spark community development and cultural shifts.

Combining our quarterly luncheons and multimedia talk series, Thinking Above the Line brings together leaders, families, and creatives to explore solutions to the core issues shaping our neighborhoods: family structure, violence prevention, economic mobility, and cultural transformation.

These intentional spaces create alignment across generations, sectors, and lived experiences—building momentum toward safer, stronger, more connected communities.

Leadership Team

Strategic. Creative. Transformational.

The BANC leadership team is a force of visionaries who merge strategic thinking, healing-centered leadership, and creative power to drive community transformation. From trauma-informed counseling to multimedia storytelling and enterprise building, this team doesn’t just run programs—they build movements that shift culture and unlock human potential.