Black Mamas Village

09/23/2026

We’re proud to be a member of the Maternal Health Equity Collaborative (MHEC), a coalition of community-based organizations working together to improve maternal and family health in Central Texas. Right now, MHEC needs our community’s help.

This year, demand for MHEC’s Gap Fund has exceeded the resources available, and the fund is currently depleted. MHEC has launched its Care is Reciprocal campaign with a goal of raising $5,000 to replenish the Gap Fund and reopen it for the final quarter of the fiscal year. The Gap Fund provides direct financial assistance to birth and care workers within our collaborative who are experiencing urgent needs. 100% of the donations to this campaign will go to the Gap Fund.

If you’re able to give, even a small contribution helps MHEC move closer to reopening the fund. If giving isn’t possible right now, sharing the campaign with your own networks is another meaningful way to help.

Learn more or donate here:
https://givebutter.com/mhec-care-is-reciprocal

Care is reciprocal. Our organizations care for our communities every day, and this campaign is an opportunity for our broader community to help make sure resources are there when families need them most.

Thank you for supporting this collective work.

Every donation to this campaign will go toward replenishing the MHEC Gap Fund and supporting the birth and care workers in our network.

09/04/2026

🎄 Christmas starts long before December.

Every year, our community comes together to help ensure Black Mamas Village families experience the joy, warmth, and magic of the holiday season. Through our Adopt-a-Family program, sponsors help make a full Christmas possible for children and caregivers by shopping directly from a family's holiday wish list.

This year, we're inviting individuals, families, businesses, faith communities, civic organizations, and community groups to join us in making the season brighter.
Your sponsorship is more than a gift—it’s a reminder to a family that their village is showing up for them.
🎁 Ready to sponsor a BMV family?
Sign up here:
👉 https://givebutter.com/2026-adopt-a-family-xy3dex

Thank you for being part of the village. Together, we're helping make the holidays brighter for Black Mamas Village families. 🖤

Help Make the Holidays Brighter for BMV Families

08/28/2026

**This is what you're investing in.**

Black mamas knowing they have somewhere to go.

Someone to call.

People to celebrate with.

A community to lean on.

A place where they don't have to explain everything before they can simply belong.

Today, on 8/28, we're asking you to invest in the Village that makes those moments possible.

🖤 https://givebutter.com/black-philanthropy-month-2026-nq4qah

**WE GOT US.**

📸: Deseré Cross Ward

08/28/2026

TODAY, WE INVEST IN US.

August 28 is a national day dedicated to intentionally investing in Black-led organizations.

And there is a reason this date matters.

8/28 carries generations of Black history—freedom, resistance, loss, courage, possibility, and progress.

Today, we add another chapter:

Black investment.

All month long, Black Mamas Village has been reminding our community that Black philanthropy has never only meant writing a check.

It is meals.

Childcare.

Mentorship.

Connections.

Advocacy.

Showing up.

And yes—it is also choosing to financially invest in Black-led organizations so they have the resources to keep serving, building, and dreaming.

So today, we're asking directly.

If you believe Black mamas deserve spaces built with them at the center...

If you believe community care deserves investment...

If you believe Black-led organizations should have the resources to thrive...

Invest in Black Mamas Village today.

🖤 https://givebutter.com/black-philanthropy-month-2026-nq4qah

Give what you can.

Share if you can't.

Invite somebody else into the Village.

WE INVEST IN US.
WE GOT US.

08/27/2026

Why 8/28?
August 28 carries an extraordinary amount of Black history.

Across generations, this date has held moments of freedom, heartbreak, resistance, possibility, and progress—from emancipation and Jackie Robinson breaking barriers, to the murder of Emmett Till, the March on Washington, Hurricane Katrina, and Barack Obama's historic presidential nomination.

That history is part of why August 28 became a national day focused on investing in Black-led organizations.
And tomorrow, we're joining that spirit in our own way.

All month long, Black Mamas Village has been celebrating Black Philanthropy Month through our WE GOT US. campaign—honoring something Black communities have always known:
We take care of each other.

Tomorrow, we're asking our Village to put that belief into action by intentionally investing in the Black-led work happening right here in Central Texas.
Swipe through to learn why 8/28 matters.
Then come back tomorrow ready to say it with us:
We invest in us.
We Got Us. 🖤

08/18/2026

When we hear the word *philanthropy*, it's easy to picture foundations, galas, and large donations.

But Black philanthropy has always been bigger than money.

It's the auntie who watches the kids.

The neighbor who brings dinner.

The friend who sends the job opening.

The mentor who opens a door.

The community that pools what it has so somebody else can make it through.

Money matters (see link below to contribute your treasure)....and so do all the other ways we invest in one another.

**How have you experienced Black philanthropy in your own life?**

We Got Us. 🖤

https://givebutter.com/black-philanthropy-month-2026-nq4qah

08/17/2026

All month long, we're celebrating the people who make the Village a village.
So we're asking one simple question:

What does "We Got Us" mean to you?

Today, Deseré Cross Ward answers...
"We Got Us means... when someone is in need, we work together to find a solution, trusting and believing that as a Village, we already have what we need in order to care for and support members within our community". 🖤

Comment below (or inbox me) with what "We Got Us" means to you and you may be featured next!

https://givebutter.com/black-philanthropy-month-2026-nq4qah

08/15/2026

THIS IS BLACK PHILANTHROPY.

The screenshot shows the first responder...and there were plenty more beautiful offers below it.

Sometimes philanthropy looks like writing a check...
But sometimes it looks like making an extra plate because you know somebody needs one.

Watching somebody's baby.
Sharing a job lead.
Giving somebody a ride.
Showing up with groceries.
Opening a door.
Making an introduction.
Checking on a mama because you haven't heard from her in a few days.

Black communities have always understood that generosity isn't measured only in dollars.
It's measured in how we show up for one another.

This is Black philanthropy.
We Got Us. 🖤

https://givebutter.com/black-philanthropy-month-2026-nq4qah

08/08/2026

✨This Is Black Philanthropy ✨

A neighbor making sure another family has food.
A volunteer giving up their Saturday.
Someone quietly meeting a need without expecting recognition.

This is Black philanthropy.

It doesn't always come with headlines.
Sometimes it looks like a pantry shelf.
Sometimes it looks like a shared meal.
Sometimes it looks like simply showing up.
We Got Us.

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day from The Village. 🎉

Today, we celebrate the love, strength, care, resilience, and magic of mothers and caregivers everywhere—especially the Black mamas who continue to hold families, communities, and each other together every single day.

At Black Mamas Village, we know motherhood is powerful, beautiful, exhausting, joyful, complicated, and sacred all at once. And we also know that none of us are meant to do it alone.

Thank you to every mama, grandmother, auntie, bonus mama, expecting mama, grieving mama, and caregiving soul who helps make our community what it is. Your presence matters. Your care matters. You matter.

We hope today brings you moments of rest, love, laughter, connection, and reminders that you are deeply appreciated.

Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Black Mamas Village. 💛🤎