Enterprising Black Orlando - EBO

Enterprising Black Orlando - EBO At Enterprising Black Orlando (EBO), our mission is to be a connecting force behind a thriving and inclusive community.

Through collaboration, advocacy, and innovation, we challenge systemic barriers and create pathways for economic mobility.

12/08/2026

For Dr. Nicole Phillips Hollis, Black philanthropy has a name and a face...

Her uncle, Mr. Willis C. Bruton, owned a funeral home in Washington Shores, and she watched him give to families in their hardest moments, again and again. That lesson stayed with her: when one person gives a part of themselves, it takes all of us working together to turn that generosity into lasting resources for our community.

As an educator, she sees where that collaboration leads. When we pull together, we build the schools, the institutions, and the future leaders our children will look up to.

That is the work of Black Philanthropy Month, and it is the work we carry forward together.

✨ Meet Terrance Hunter, Chief Administrative Officer at 26Health!An Orlando native, Terrance began this work at the Oran...
12/08/2026

✨ Meet Terrance Hunter, Chief Administrative Officer at 26Health!

An Orlando native, Terrance began this work at the Orange County Regional History Center, where he used history as a tool for civic engagement. He went on to lead educational programming at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville and exhibitions at the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, but across all of it he was really asking the same question: who gets to walk in, and who is left standing outside the door?

From 2019 to 2024 he served in leadership roles at Central Florida Community Arts, including CEO, and there that question grew the internationally recognized School of Arts and Health to reach everyone from six-week-old infants to older adults navigating Alzheimer's and dementia. He also serves as Board President of Hope CommUnity Center, sits on Congressman Maxwell Frost's Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, and is Immediate Past President of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Central Florida Chapter.

What has been missing is not institutions, since our region has plenty, but institutions built to be accountable to the communities they sit inside and leaders willing to hold them to it. Terrance believes cultural and health institutions can be catalysts for lasting change, so together we are building an ecosystem that proves him right.

Share this with someone who believes our institutions can do better.

▪ This is what it looks like when institutions answer to us!

✨When was the last time you wore your Sunday's best on a Saturday?⁠⁠That is exactly the room we are building. Live music...
11/08/2026

✨When was the last time you wore your Sunday's best on a Saturday?⁠
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That is exactly the room we are building. Live music, local Black artists showing and selling their work, and moments throughout the day to honor the legacy we all come from. A space full of people who turned what they earned into something the whole community could stand on.⁠
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The Legacy Lives Here Luncheon, in celebration of Black Philanthropy Month. Welcomed in by our Golden Carpet and a full afternoon made for celebrating us.⁠
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Click the link: https://bit.ly/4gLgMAS. to grab your tickets today!⁠⁠
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✨ Meet Kwasi Crawford, a commercial real estate professional with Lloyd CA!Kwasi is an emerging leader in commercial rea...
07/08/2026

✨ Meet Kwasi Crawford, a commercial real estate professional with Lloyd CA!

Kwasi is an emerging leader in commercial real estate, and he leverages his expertise to drive impactful client solutions and positive social change. He is a dedicated advocate for creating equitable outcomes and opportunity across our community, so every deal he touches carries a question most people in his industry never ask out loud: not what the property is worth today, but who will still be standing on that corner in twenty years.

That question matters more than it sounds, because neighborhoods have been improved and emptied in the same breath before. Money has flowed into historic corridors, values have climbed, and the businesses that gave a block its identity were gone before the ribbon was ever cut.

What has been missing from revitalization was never investment, but ownership, and without it a community can be upgraded right out of its own history. As we prioritize historic Black business corridors for community-led investment, we need people who read that landscape honestly and act on what they see, so together we are working toward corridors where the businesses that shaped the block are still there to pass it down.

Tag a business owner who is holding it down on a corner that matters.

▪ This is how we build ownership that stays!

✨ Meet Dr. Katie Philp, Director of the Education Knowledge Broker Network at the University of Delaware!Katie is a scho...
05/08/2026

✨ Meet Dr. Katie Philp, Director of the Education Knowledge Broker Network at the University of Delaware!

Katie is a scholar-practitioner, which is another way of saying she has spent more than twenty years refusing to choose between the research and the room where it gets used. Her career spans teaching, youth development, and nonprofit leadership, and her scholarship centers afterschool programs and community-based learning, but she has never been content to leave any of it on a shelf.

In Orlando that conviction has meant millions secured in funding for youth initiatives, service on several nonprofit boards, and years advising grassroots coalitions focused on youth and family development. She works with the people closest to the question, because they are the ones who already know the answer.

What has been missing is never information about our neighborhoods, since studies have been written about us for decades, but research that arrives in the hands of the people who can move on it. Katie built her entire practice on that gap, so together we are building a shared understanding of where we are and where our resources should go, and making sure the decisions about our future finally get made with us.

Share this with an educator or advocate who believes in our young people.

▪ This is what happens when knowledge finally comes home!

04/08/2026

In celebration of Black Philanthropy Month, we are opening a conversation:

What does Black philanthropy mean to you?
& What does it mean for us, collectively, here in Orlando?

All month long we are honoring the traditions that have always lived in the hearts of our community: how we love one another, care for one another, invest in one another, and protect one another.

Follow along with us this August as we build toward the day we gather in person. Legacy Lives Here Luncheon is where we put our resources behind that legacy, together.

Stay tuned. We will see you there. ✨🥂

✨️Welcome to Black Philanthropy Month.Founded in 2011 by Dr. Jacqueline Bouvier Copeland, Black Philanthropy Month has g...
04/08/2026

✨️Welcome to Black Philanthropy Month.

Founded in 2011 by Dr. Jacqueline Bouvier Copeland, Black Philanthropy Month has grown into a global movement. This year’s theme, Many Voices. One Movement., reminds us that every act of support contributes to something larger.
Every August, communities around the world come together to celebrate the generosity, leadership, and collective action that have always been part of the Black experience.

Here in Central Florida, Black philanthropy can be found all around us. It lives in our churches, families, businesses, neighborhoods, community organizations, and in the people who continue to show up for one another.

Throughout this month, EBO will celebrate that legacy while exploring how our generosity can create even more opportunities for ownership, investment, and long-term prosperity.

We are proud to add our voice to this movement, and we are excited to share this month with you!

✨ Meet Michelle Wilson, Vice President and Banking Center Manager at Seacoast Bank and Secretary of the Enterprising Bla...
31/07/2026

✨ Meet Michelle Wilson, Vice President and Banking Center Manager at Seacoast Bank and Secretary of the Enterprising Black Orlando Board!

After more than eighteen years in financial services, Michelle has learned that the work was never really about banking, but about who walks through the door, what they are carrying, and whether they leave with what they came for. She has led her Seacoast banking center since 2018, and she is known for the relationships she builds with consumer and business clients alike, along with the care she brings to the everyday needs most people overlook.

Small business is where her passion sits, so she spends her days helping owners reach the financing and the guidance that let growth become something sustainable. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Central Florida, and she describes her goal as elevating the communities she serves by connecting people, ideas, and resources that make a lasting difference.

What has been missing for our entrepreneurs was never a good idea or the will to chase it, but a path to capital that did not depend on already knowing someone. Michelle has been building that path one relationship at a time, so together we are making sure a business started today becomes something a family inherits tomorrow.

Know a business owner who needs to hear this? Share it with them today.

▪ This is how we make sure everyone has a seat at the table!

✨ Meet William Jefferson, MPA, Board Chair of Enterprising Black Orlando!William came to this work through the rooms whe...
29/07/2026

✨ Meet William Jefferson, MPA, Board Chair of Enterprising Black Orlando!

William came to this work through the rooms where people learn to lead, and over fifteen years across the government and nonprofit sectors he has built his career around leadership development, board governance, and community engagement. He began at Valencia College's Peace and Justice Institute, where he led community engagement and racial healing work and now chairs the Advisory Council, and today he serves as Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Lead Well Solutions and Director of Community Engagement at Baker Barrios Architects. Along the way he has lent his expertise to the Black Boardroom Leadership Institute and the FBI Diversity and Inclusion Council.

West Palm Beach raised him, but Bethune-Cookman University and the University of Central Florida shaped him. He is currently raising four boys alongside his wife of ten years, so we are confident that legacy is something he thinks about at home long before he ever brings it into a boardroom.

What has been missing across our community was never ambition, but the governance and discipline that let good work survive past the people who started it. Organizations without that foundation do beautiful work for a season, and then it is gone. William builds the kind that lasts, so together we are building an organization our children will still be able to point to.

Follow our page to meet every member of the board, and share this with someone who should know us.

▪ This is how we build something that lasts!

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