SUPPORT OUR BRILLIANT BLACK CHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH
Please consider supporting our research efforts. Every dollar you give helps us build a more equitable future through research, mentorship, and community engagement! Our dream is to establish a lasting, self-sustaining institute dedicated to brilliant Black family research and programming, setting a new pathways for applied research. With your support, that vision is within reach.
To everyone who has contributed—whether through sharing your journey, donating your time or resources, or simply believing in the importance of this work—thank you.
You can make a one-time or recurring donation online . Please direct the donation to the “Homeplace Research Collective” in the “designation” box or you can contact Dr. Lauren Mims at Lauren.mims@nyu.edu
Here are some examples of what your donation can support:
~$5–$10 – Provides Black girl books and learning materials for participants
~$25 – Covers supplies for data collection with Black families (e.g. family dreaming activities or shared book reading activities)
~$100 – Provides payments to Black youth, emerging adults, and/or families participating in research
~$500 – Supports domestic travel for students to present their research at conferences
~$2,000 – Provides financial support for an undergraduate student to contribute to data collection, coding, and publication writing as part of our training mission (1 semester)
~$10,000 – Funds a Homeplace research project (e.g. student financial support, supplies, participant compensation for interviews, survey, and focus group participation, and a small community led results dissemination event)
~$50,000 — Provides financial support for yearlong part time graduate (Masters/Doctoral) student to contribute to data collection, coding, and publication writing, as well as well as develop their own independent research project as part of our training mission (1 semester)
~$65,000 – Supports the hiring of a part-time lab manager, such as a recently graduated undergraduate student interested in pursing a PhD, to gain research skills while ensuring all our research projects run smoothly
