IFBP Programs
IFBP Advocacy Project
This project helps Black Pride organizations develop advocacy around issues that impact the Black LGBT community in their respective cities. The IFBP selected five cities (Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Seattle, Charlotte and Cincinnati) for the first phrase of the project. All IFBP members will be undertaking at least advocacy issues by the fall of 2010.
Black and Brown Summits
Are a series of forums that brings together the African American and Latino LGBT communities, leaders, organizations, and grass roots movements to dialogue about issues common to both communities. These forums have been held in Philadelphia, Dallas and Los Angeles. Others will be held in San Diego, Chicago, Boston, Washington, DC, and Seattle over the coming months.
HIV/AIDS Testing and Counseling Project
The IFBP provides technical assistance to members to collaborate with their local health department and community based organizations to provide cultural appropriate HIV/AIDS testing to Black Pride attendees. All Black Prides provided HIV/AIDS testing and counseling at their events in 2008.
Black Gay & Green Project
In launching the BG&G initiative, IFBP seeks to educate the Black LGBT community nationwide about the impacts of global warming and other environmental issues on vulnerable communities and mobilize them to advocate for individual responsibility among their friends and family as well as legislative change on the local, state and national level. The IFBP will bring the BG&G project to member cities throughout 2009-10.
Organizational Technical Assistance
The IFBP provides organizational technical assistance to our members during our annual Technical Assistance Conference held before the IFBP Annual meeting held each year during the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr holiday weekend. The IFBP facilitates technical assistance in the area of board development, media training, strategic planning, fiscal, non profit organizational development, event plan, fundraising, sponsorship, grant writing and management, etc.
IFBP Web site
The soon to be redesigned IFBP web site attracted over 300,000 unique hits in 2008. This interactive site provides information on the Black Pride events, international and national news, community resources and links with other parts of the
The Life: The Official Worldwide Guide To Black Prides
IFBP Official Black Pride Guide - The Life fills the media gaps in information, marketing and public relations to over 350,000 members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Same Gender Loving (LGBT/SGL) who attended the Black Pride events hosted by our members throughout the United States, Canada, UK and South Africa. IFBP Official Black Pride Guide - The Life provides information not only about the black pride events but also health, culture, politics as we strive to uplift, inform, entertain and educate members of this upwardly mobile community.
IFBP's International Work
The IFBP works with its members in Toronto, Canada; Johannesburg, South Africa and London, United Kingdom to support their efforts in the Black LGBT community. In 2009, the IFBP and its members developed a partnership with LGBT Community Centers in Ghana, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Cameroon in order; (a) advice and partnership around implementation of HIV programs; (b) provide assistance on putting together Pride Celebrations in their own cities/countries; (c) and to help with marketing, fundraising, etc. In addition, the IFBP have provided support to Black LGBT groups in Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana
IFBP Black Transgender Leadership Summit
The Summit is scheduled to take place in Chicago in the fall of 2009. In response to the lack of Black Transgender inclusion in planning and discussions regarding public policy issues on both the local and national levels, the IFBP plans to bring together a group of Black Transgender leaders such as yourself to plan for this one day summit that will have participants discuss strategies for broader inclusion and integration of Black Transgender issues in national and local LGBT agendas.
IFBP Sports Project
The IFBP is developing a series of athletic competition events at Black Prides starting in 2010. The first series of events will be basketball and volleyball tournaments in four to six cities and expanding to all member cities by 2011.
Health and Wellness
The IFBP promotes holistic health and wellness in the Black LGBT community by working with our members to host Health and Wellness Expos at each Black Pride. The Health and Wellness expos offer an array of health screening from Sexually Transmitted Diseases, hypertension, diabetes, etc.