ECONOMIC AGENCY FORMATION STARTS HERE.
Black Women’s Wealth Alliance is the institutional home of Economic Agency Formation™ advancing publications, practical tools, research, grants, convenings, and advisory work that help people move from economic participation toward agency, ownership, stewardship, and generational continuity.
THE NEXT 30 BY JUNE 30
BWWA is prioritizing review and enrollment support for 30 qualified applicants ready to reposition their careers, strengthen their work, direct established income, build resilient businesses, and advance their economic agency.
Two sponsored pathways. One comprehensive application.
Apply by June 30 for priority review. Applications remain open after June 30 as space, funding, eligibility, and program capacity allow.
PARTICIPATION IS NOT PROSPERITY.
People can work, earn, operate businesses, pursue education, and contribute to communities without gaining meaningful control over assets, capital, institutions, or long-term decisions. Economic Agency Formation™ focuses on the capacities that help people convert participation into direction, ownership, stewardship, and continuity.
WHAT BWWA BUILDS
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We develop and advance the Economic Agency Formation™ framework.
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We produce articles, tools, workbooks, case studies, research, and the Biennial Economic Agency Report.
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We invest in individuals and field-building organizations through the Hoperah Fund.
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We gather builders each August through the Annual Economic Agency Conference.
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We help institutions apply the framework to workforce, youth, business, family, community, and economic-development strategies.
PRACTICAL TOOLS FOR REAL LIFE.
BWWA is building a free public resource library to help people assess their careers, understand their market position, examine their economic agency, direct money, strengthen businesses, and plan their next move.
COMING FIRST: Economic Agency Check-In • Know Your Position Career Market Toolkit • Economic Agency Snapshot
WE INVEST IN PEOPLE.
WE INVEST IN THE FIELD.
The Hoperah Fund makes catalytic investments in individuals building economic agency and in eligible organizations and initiatives advancing aligned work. Grantmaking is planned to resume in 2027 through spring and fall cycles.
BEFORE WE NAMED IT.
BWWA is examining twelve years of programs, investments, participant records, stories, and outcomes to understand how economic agency appeared in practice before the framework had a name.
FOLLOW THE FIELD.
Receive new Economic Agency Publications, free tools, Hoperah Fund opportunities, conference announcements, research invitations, alumni updates, and news from BWWA’s current sponsored initiatives.