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"Everybody can be great because everybody can serve."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Under-represented Peoples Positive Action Council is a group of progressive people who meet weekly to address myriad issues in the Black community.
Community Organizations
Community Organizations
Category | Organization Name | Contact | website | email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
ALUMNI | Florida A&M University Miami-Dade Alumni Chapter | https://miamidadefamunaa.org/ | info@MiamiDadeFAMUNAA.org | |
ALUMNI | South Florida Tuskegee Alumni, Inc. | Oscar Braynon, Sr., President | ||
CIVIC | Caribbean-American Advancement Foundation, Inc. | Courtney McFarlane | http://www.c-aaf.net | courtneygmc@gmail.com |
CIVIC | NAACP National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Miami-Dade Chapter, North Dade
| Daniella Pierre, President | http://www.nanbpwc.org | www.miamidadenaacp.com |
CIVIC | National Action Network South Florida Chapter | nansouthflorida@gmail.com | ||
CIVIC | Miami Gardens Commission
for Women | Karen Tynes, Chair | ||
CIVIC | W.A.A.I.V.E. Women’s Association
and Alliance Against Injustice and
Violence for Education
| Madame Renita Holmes, Lead Advocate | mysistahshand2hold@yahoo.com | |
CIVIC | The Trayvon Martin Foundation | http://www.trayvonmartinfoundation.org | troy@trayvonmartinfoundation.org | |
CIVIC | UP-PAC Unrepresented People’s Positive Action Council | Mrs. Betty Ferguson, Founder Emeritus | http://www.uppac-miami.org | |
CIVIC | South Florida People of Color
| Roni Bennett, Executive Director | https://southfloridapoc.org | info@southfloridapoc.org |
CIVIC | St. Kitts & Nevis Association of Florida | Elvis A Caines | http://www.sknaf.org | elvis/caines@miamidade.gov |
CIVIC & SOCIAL | Dade County Charmettes, Inc.
| Ruth Williams, President | wrwilliam34@aol.com | |
CIVIC & SOCIAL | 100 Black Men of South Florida | Damian Thomas, President | http://www.100blackmensf.org | info@100blackmensf.org |
CIVIC & SOCIAL | Egelloc Civic and Social Club, Inc.
| Mary Ann Thomas, President
| Menoftomorrow2017@gmail.com
| |
CIVIC & SOCIAL | The Links, Inc. Greater Miami Chapter
| Gail Ash Dotson, Esq.,President | http://www.greatermiamilinks.org | info@greatermiamilinks.org |
CIVIC & SOCIAL | Jack and Jill of America Miami Chapter | Julie Harris Nelson, President | http://www.jackandjillmiami.org | miamipresident@jackandjill.org |
CLUB | M-D Urban Debate League - MDUDL | https://www.miamiudl.org/?fbclid=IwAR3qUnDrsmMU4uHJjuuy7E2KNj4IfrKKu7k_oXennI1q9ribT2ioDmD8Dfg | ||
CLUB | The Miami Ski Club | https://miamiskiclub.com/ | MAIL@MIAMISKICLUB.NET | |
CLUB | Candela Book Club | |||
CULTURAL | Miami Carnival Association | Joan Hinkson | SLTNT27@aol.com | |
CULTURAL | Barbados Chamber of Commerce | Barbara Brathwaite | ||
CULTURAL | Anguilla Progressive Association (One Caribbean Association) | |||
CULTURAL | Bahamian American Cultural Club | Franklin Williams, President | ||
CULTURAL | Belize Chamber of Commerce | Michael Young | ||
CULTURAL | Trinidad & Tobago Independence Ball Committee | Yvette Bell | ||
CULTURAL | Antigua & Barbuda | Desiree Barnes | ||
CULTURAL | St. Kitts & Nevis | Elvis Caines | ||
CULTURAL | Grenada Association | |||
POLITICAL | Dynamic Women’s Democratic Club of Miami-Dade County | Rosetta Rolle Hylton, President | RHylton@med.miami.edu | |
POLITICAL | Democratic Women’s Club of
Miami Gardens
| Janice Coakley, President
| coa125@aol.com
| |
PROFESSIONAL | Black Nurses Association
Miami Chapter
| Patrise Tyson, President | ||
PROFESSIONAL | National Association of Black Women
in Construction | Ann McNeill, President | http://www.nabwic.org | chair@nabwic.org |
PROFESSIONAL | Miami Gardens
Chamber of Commerce
| Andre Williams, Esq., President
| http://www.miamigardenschamber.net | info@MiamiGardensChamber.net |
PROFESSIONAL | National Assoc. of Business & Prof. Women’s Alliance M-D Chapter
| Earnestine Thompson, President | http://ETmikkit2001@aol.com | mikkit@baptisthealth.net |
PROFESSIONAL | Haitian American Nurses
Association (HANA) | Pauline Louis-Magiste, MSN-Ed, APN, RN, President | http://info@hanaofflorida.org | |
PROFESSIONAL | Business & Professional Women’s South Florida Club
| Carol Weatherington, President
| bpwcsf@gmail.com | |
PROFESSIONAL | Jamaican Nurses Association | Lornette Patrick, RN, MSN, APRN, President | http://www.jamaicanursesofflorida.org | jamaicanursesofflorida@gmail.com |
PROFESSIONAL | South Florida Black Prosperity
Alliance (SFBPA) | Eric Knowles, Founder | http://www.sofloridablackprosperity.org | |
SOCIAL | Girl Friends, Inc. Miami Chapter
| Darla Culmer, President
| http://www.thegfinc.org | MSDC2003@aol.com |
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