HBCU Community Development Corporation

Let Us Plan to Develop Our Community Together
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.”- Benjamin Franklin

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About Us

What We Do

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) are the engines for advancing the black community’s economic, social, and cultural development. However, many HBCUs lack the organizational planning infrastructure to address the long-term operational issues required to maintain competitive campus infrastructure and accreditation into the 21st Century.

The HBCU Community Development Corporation (HBCUcdc) works with HBCU boards and administration to develop an internal planning process capable of obtaining stakeholder approval and creating the partnerships needed to build the necessary educational and community infrastructure to compete for students, faculty, and staff and maintain accreditation.

HBCUcdc uses the latest advances in data analytics to create Budgets, Strategic Plans, and Campus Master Plans and to conduct performance evaluations needed to measure success and make the required adjustments to reach the long-term mission and goals of HBCUs and the communities they serve beyond the 21st Century.

Lifting the Veil
and Growing
a Community

HBCUs are the only American institutions created with the sole mission of successfully lifting black communities out of poverty. It is time to address the operational issues confronting HBCUs: stagnant enrollment, deteriorating infrastructure, impoverished surrounding communities, declining financial reserves, and accreditation challenges. Addressing these issues involves creating an institutional planning infrastructure that leads to restoring these campuses and the surrounding communities into destination places capable of competing for students, faculty, staff, and businesses.

The HBCU leadership can no longer ignore the physical conditions of the community surrounding HBCUs if achieving the HBCU’s mission includes attracting students, faculty, staff, and the businesses needed to support and advance the goal of HBCUs. Achieving these goals requires developing plans to attract partnerships capable of transforming HBCU communities into engines of economic growth.

HBCUcdc is ready to work with HBCU leadership to build the planning infrastructure needed to demonstrate the feasibility and timeliness of this change in HBCU strategy. Community development led by HBCUs creates a synergy that provides opportunities for HBCU students, the local labor force, small business development, and benefits to the entire community.

What does the HBCU Community Development
Corporation bring to the Table?

HBCUcdc brings over 40 years of experience developing planning processes that resolve public and private community development issues. Our expertise provides feasible solutions to what seemed to be insurmountable problems, leading to direct positive impacts at the federal, state, and local levels of various industries, markets, and institutions within the affected economies.

Increasing HBCU Enrollment by 100%

In 2022, there were approximately 5.4 million blacks in the 18-24 age group, representing the pool of potential black undergraduate students. With the right planning and strategic approach, increasing HBCU enrollment by 100% is not just a goal but a realistic possibility.

HBCUs have a rich history of serving the black community, and with the right support, they can continue to do so in the 21st century, ushering in a new era of growth and success.

Directing the Flow of Financial Capital into HBCU Communities

HBCUcdc can direct the financial capital needed to fund community infrastructure improvements, which are required to compete for and retain students, faculty, and staff. These improvements include residential housing and retail and commercial spaces for business establishments, as well as providing community services and facilities for HBCU-related activities

Altering the Economic Structure of the Community

The federal enforcement of black student’s civil right to attend predominantly white institutions and growing incomes among black families are forcing HBCUs to compete for black students. These institutions are usually located in economically underserved communities with low property values and limited access to public services and protection. HBCUcdc works with HBCUs to develop the planning feasibility documents required to direct the flow of financial capital needed to enhance the infrastructure of HBCU communities to compete for students, faculty, and staff.