Black Education For New Orleans

Now listen… we love a community that comes together to show love to educators.

Huge thank you to our sponsors for helping us celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week at our Toast for Educators event:

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Between the giveaways, the support, and the collective love poured into educators last week, yall helped us create something special. Congratulations to the raffle winners! Hope yall enjoy 🤎

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Still thinking about our Literacy on Tap with journalist, author, and 2024 Queen Zulu .

The conversation around her newest graphic novel, “First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth,” reminded us that stories do more than teach history. They shape identity, possibility, confidence, and memory.

Thank you, Angelique, for reminding us why Black stories belong everywhere 🤎 And big love to every educator ensuring representative, truth-telling books are in their classrooms.

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Still thinking about our Literacy on Tap with journalist, author, and 2024 Queen Zulu

The conversation around her newest graphic novel, “First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth,” reminded us that stories do more than teach history. They shape identity, possibility, confidence, and memory.

Thank you, Angelique, for reminding us why Black stories belong everywhere 🤎 And big love to every educator ensuring representative, truth-telling books are in their classrooms.

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We had a timeeeee last week.

Yall showed up and showed out for Year 2 of our Toast for Educators Happy Hour and Literacy on Tap in celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week ahead of .

Good people, positive energy, giveaways, and a whole lotta love for educators. Exactly the kind of carrying on we like to see.

Same time next year? 🫶🏾

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Thank you, BE NOLA family. Y’all held it down for ussss.🖤 Because of you, we raised $10,039.27 from 136 donors on GiveNOLA Day in support of Black educators, Black-led schools, and the future of education in New Orleans!

And while the number matters, what it represents matters even more. It represents people choosing to show up for us in a big way. It represents friends texting friends, our Institute fellows and board members sharing their stories, educators reminding us why this work matters, and community members giving what they could because they believe Black educators deserve to be supported, celebrated, and poured into. ✨

You gave. You shared. You bought merch. You attended. You invited people in. You reminded us that community is not just something we talk about... it is something we practice. Thank you for believing in BE NOLA and Black brilliance. 💫

We are in the final hours of GiveNOLA Day! GiveNOLA Day is almost over, and we need your help crossing the finish line.🖤 Give $10. Give $25. Give what you can. If you have not given yet, your gift still matters. A $10 gift helps. A $25 gift helps. Every contribution helps us continue building programs, partnerships, and spaces that support educators and strengthen schools.  💫

🔗 Give now: https://www.givenola.org/organization/Benola

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Look at all this brilliance. 🖤✨ These are Black Is Brilliant Institute Fellows, educators and leaders shaping schools, classrooms, and communities across New Orleans. BE NOLA creates spaces where Black educators can connect, grow, lead, and be poured into. 💫

Fam, we need you to lean in! We’re so close to our goal, but we need your support to help us cross the finish line. Tonight, help us keep building these spaces. Give $10. Give $25. Give what you can.

🔗 Give here: https://www.givenola.org/organization/Benola

Not us getting emotional seeing all of our Black Is Brilliant fellows share their impactitt! Fam, we’re at the midway point to reach our $12,000 GiveNOLA Day goal. 💫 Your gift supports programs like the Black Is Brilliant Institute, BE NOLA’s leadership and community-building experience for Black educators across our city.

Through the Institute, educators are connected, affirmed, equipped, and poured into. But don’t just take it from us! Peep our reposts and stories to hear firsthand how our Institute is world-building. 🖤 Give today and help us keep pouring into the people who pour into our children.

🔗Give here:
https://www.givenola.org/organization/Benola

✨ Scenes from our Black Is Brilliant Summit — BE NOLA’s national convening founded by to give Black educators culturally affirming professional development, rest, joy, community, and space to be poured into. 🖤

Last year, the Summit welcomed 631 registrants from 24 states and provided $102K in scholarships to 341 educators. That is impact. That is investment. That is what your GiveNOLA Day gift helps make possible. 

🔗 Give today: https://www.givenola.org/organization/Benola



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