Where culture, wellness and youth come together...
Empowering the Black community by providing culturally relevant programs and services that promote wellness, youth development, and racial equity, honoring the legacy of Richard Kemp by actively addressing historical racial inequities and creating a space for community gathering and cultural preservation.
The Richard Kemp Center is where culture, wellness and youth come together. We are committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive space for people of all ages and backgrounds. Our safety, wellness and our ability to thrive are at the center of what we do at the Richard Kemp Center. Nearly three years into operation, the Richard Kemp Center hosts numerous activities including Youth Movie Night, Chess Club, First Friday, Game Nights, and Legal Clinics. Our facilities include meeting and performance areas, cultural arts displays, a youth game area, public computer access, the Black Legacy Wall, a community library and full audio and visual support capabilities. This year the Richard Kemp Center sponsored a number of community-based cultural activities and events. Some of these activities included:
The Richard Kemp Center hosted and supported various organization’s events including:
This year we completed Phase I of the Growing Homes Initiative where we offered space to learn, grow and heal from racial trauma while pursuing economic empowerment and striving towards home ownership. This culminated with a "House Party" where we provided a one-stop-shop for prospective buyers who have been historically underserved. We also launched our amazing Race, Identity, Culture and History (R.I.C.H.) initiative this year. R.I.C.H. offers partnership and support to Black and Brown, bi-racial or transracially adopted youth. We are receiving incredibly encouraging feedback from our partners.
This year the Richard Kemp Center assisted community members with various challenges with housing, public accommodation and workforce and business development. We connected with dozens of community members through advocacy, direct services and referrals. Please support the work of the Richard Kemp Center.
We need your help to continue this work. Please support the work of the Richard Kemp Center with a contribution below. When we lift up underserved communities we build a safer society, stabilize the economy and protect and preserve democracy for everyone!
Mail to: 70 S. Winooski Ave, Unit 204 Burlington, Vermont 05401
Fiscal Sponsor: Vermont Interfaith Action EIN: 03-0223222
Can you contribute $ 100 dollars or less? These contributions will enable us to fund some of our facility overhead and program administration.
Thanks and welcome to the Change-Makers, where we're making a difference at the grassroots level. .
Can you contribute $ 1000 dollars or less? These contributions will enable us to fund some of our community engagement and support stipends and media and communications staffing.
Thanks for being a Game-Changer and closing this important gap!
You will receive regular updates on RKC programs and activities and a Monthly Newsletter
Are you able to contribute at a level beyond $ 1000 dollars? This will help us add staffing and programming and achieve Phase II and III of our build-out (very exciting)!
We appreciate you legacy-makers!
You will receive regular updates on RKC programs and activities, Monthly Newsletter, logo on RKC Site, access to designated RKC “Legacy Maker” training and programming and appointment of one designee to the Strategic Partner Advisory Committee.
Systemic racism contributes to the lack of home and land ownership, which is a significant issue across the country, including in Vermont where the data is particularly troubling. Growing Homes is a culturally and economically empowering initiative that will offer participants the ability to learn, grow, heal and build wealth.
Youth Movie Night
Every 2nd and 4th Friday Night. Youth of all ages. Food and Beverages.
Parents are welcomed to drop their kids off or stay.
We hope to see you and your families.
For more information please contact: Info@richardkempcenter.org
Chess Club is hosted every Tuesday @5 PM
Food and Beverage provided.
All ages and Skill levels are welcomed.
For more information please contact: Info@richardkempcenter.org
A night for the entire family. Board Games, Spades, Charades, Pictionary, Dominos and more....
For more details please contact: Info@richardkempcenter.org
Our wellness is at the epicenter of all we do and experience. We must consider every action taken to dismantle systemic racism as an act of enhancing our wellness. We will disrupt status quo systems and develop long-range strategies for black-led alternative approaches to create healthy outcomes. We will fight for wellness as if our lives depend upon it – because they do.
Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek, — the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think. Work, culture, and liberty—all these we need, not singly, but together; for to-day these ideals among the Negro people are gradually coalescing, and finding a higher meaning in the unifying ideal of race, — the ideal of fostering t
Freedom, too, the long-sought, we still seek, — the freedom of life and limb, the freedom to work and think. Work, culture, and liberty—all these we need, not singly, but together; for to-day these ideals among the Negro people are gradually coalescing, and finding a higher meaning in the unifying ideal of race, — the ideal of fostering the traits and talents of the Negro, not in opposition to, but in conformity with, the greater ideals of the American republic, in order that some day, on American soil, two world races may give each to each those characteristics which both so sadly lack. Already we come not altogether empty-handed: there is to-day no true American music but the sweet wild melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales are Indian and African; we are the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. W.E.B. Debois
Our youth our most precious and hopeful prospect for our future. We take seriously our responsibility to consistently offer space, help, instruction and support. Above all we will teach them their ancestors' contribution, resilience and power and hold them to high standards of excellence.
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