Black Action Network Committee strengthens Black communities by confronting the root causes of youth crime, housing instability, economic underdevelopment, and unresolved mental and emotional trauma.
We do this through youth programming, community-based training, and powerful media storytelling that turns real challenges into pathways for stability, leadership, and opportunity.

B.A.N.C

Black Action Network

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VISION

BANC (Black Action Network Committee) is a community development and media organization committed to removing the structural barriers that limit stability, safety, and opportunity in Black communities. Our work focuses on four critical areas that shape quality of life: youth crime prevention and career development, housing stability and community ownership, economic development and organizational readiness, and mental and emotional wellness.

Our vision is to build a full-circle ecosystem where individuals—especially youth and families most impacted by instability—gain the tools, exposure, and internal capacity needed to move from survival to agency, and from reaction to leadership. We believe communities change when people are equipped not only with opportunity, but with clarity, emotional regulation, and pathways to meaningful participation.

Through coordinated programming, trauma-informed education, leadership development, and strategic media storytelling, BANC turns lived experience into action. From youth development pipelines and career-connected training to public conversations, short films, and narrative campaigns, we make invisible barriers visible while amplifying real solutions that strengthen families, organizations, and neighborhoods.

As BANC continues to grow, we are building toward a solutions hub that does more than raise awareness—we develop leaders, support grassroots initiatives, and mobilize media, capital access, and strategic support to help community-driven solutions take root, scale, and produce measurable, long-term impact.

Current projects

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.