United Black Family Scholarship Foundation

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The United Black Family Scholarship Foundation is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the social and economic conditions of underserved communities.

The mission of the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation is to provide all races a quality education to change political structures and systems that perpetuate poverty and racism. Our programs and initiatives advance education not in the strict sense of “credentialism,” rather education as it pertains to “Rebuilding the Community from within the Community” by empowering people to take action in the political transformation of our communities.

Founder Ivan Kilgore

Ivan Kilgore, who is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole, spends 23 hours/day locked in a Northern California prison cell. He has been incarcerated for 23 years, during which time he founded the United Black Family Scholarship Foundation, a volunteer and student-staffed 501(c)(3) nonprofit operating in Oklahoma, California, and New York. Working with the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee, student volunteers from Stony Brook University, the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, UC Berkeley’s Underground Scholars Initiative, UC Irvine Social Ecology Field Study Program, Langston University’s National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice, and a number of other volunteers and consultants, Kilgore has developed and facilitates a number programs, including internship programs, workshops, legal aid, and community reinvestment and scholarship programs. He has self-published four books of his own: Domestic Genocide: The Institutionalization of Society (2013), Mayhem, Murder & Magnificence: A Memoir (2020), King: The Early Years (2019), and My Comrades’ Thoughts on Black Lives Matter (2020).

UBFSF

United Black Family Scholarship Foundation

Founder Ivan Kilgore