About Brotherhood Crusade HR company in Los Angeles, United States
Brotherhood Crusade is a 50-year old grassroots organization with a vision of improving quality of life and meeting the unmet needs of low-income, underserved, under-represented and disenfranchised individuals. We envision a South Los Angeles devoid of he
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Brotherhood Crusade is a 50-year old grassroots organization with a vision of improving quality of life and meeting the unmet needs of low-income underserved under-represented and disenfranchised individuals. We envision a South Los Angeles devoid of health disparities disenfranchisement and poverty-associated adverse public health conditions. We believe South Los Angeles can be a safe thriving culturally relevant and inclusive community that provides all residents equitable access to human amp; social services and continually improves their quality of life.
Our mission is to remove and/or help individuals overcome the barriers that deter their pursuit of success in life and facilitate opportunities for a better quality of life by effectuating improved health amp; wellness facilitating academic success promoting personal social amp; economic growth providing access to artistic excellence amp; cultural awareness increasing financial literacy and building community agencies amp; institutions.
In 1968 Walter Bremond and others from the Los Angeles Black Congress organized and incorporated the Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade. Walt Bremond signed a personal note with Bank of America in the amount of $15000.00 (fifteen thousand dollars) with the idea of funding the organizational concept that came out of the Black Congress. As a significant result the fruits of the Black Congress labor lived on in the Brotherhood Crusade.
In 1973 the organization founded the National Black United Fund a self-help economic empowerment entity that now boasts 23 chapters nationally and serves more than 3 million individuals annually. Brotherhood Crusade also effectuated changes in the Combined Federal Campaign which now allows more than 14000 community-based organizations to receive funding from individual payroll deduction gifts.
This was a pivotal year for the Brotherhood Crusade Danny Bakewell was appointed President and CEO. Mr. Bakewell for 35 years provided the necessary leadership to build the Brotherhood Crusade into a premier Institution in this country.
The Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit human and social services organization founded in 1968 when this group of men and women calling themselves The Black Congress sat down to create an agenda and possible solutions for issues that affected the black community. Their think tank called for economic autonomy defending integrity creating unity and the formation of a creative force to guide that unity through peace and mutual respect.
Community leader Walter Bremond mortgaged his familys home to acquire $15000 which was used to keep the doors of two vital community institutions open and founded Brotherhood Crusade as the creative force. Its mission is to improve quality of life and address the unmet needs of underserved under-represented and disenfranchised South Los Angeles residents. Self-help – assimilating fiscal in-kind and volunteer resources from within the community to help the community – is the organizations model and mantra.
The vision of that group of courageous and dedicated men and women began to flourish as the community responded by supporting their efforts through charitable giving.
In the 50 years since its founding Brotherhood Crusade has provided human and social services to more than 100000 South Los Angeles residents annually. These services include educational enrichment amp; academic assistance services arts amp; drama appreciation at-risk youth prevention programs health education life amp; social skills training domestic violence assistance character development appreciation of diversity training employment readiness post-employment services counseling financial education health screening health education access to cultural and artistic excellence core capacity training for minority-led organization recreational services homeless services and the provision of emergency food clothing and shelter.
Today under the leadership of Bremonds daughter Charisse Bremond Weaver the organization has become a model of collaboration and resource leveraging. Bremond Weavers unique ability to bring quality people and necessary resources together for a common cause not only exemplifies the Brotherhood Crusade self-help model but also significantly strengthens its relevance in the 21st Century.
In 2005 Brotherhood Crusade began to develop its pioneering 10-Year Community and Economic Development Plan which emphasizes youth development from a social justice lens with an emphasis youth with severe academic and socio-behavioral issues. The model was awarded the 2012 National Criminal Justice Association 2010 Outstanding Juvenile Justice Program Award as the best youth development program in the western United States.
When Danny Bakewell retired in 2005 the leadership of the Brotherhood Crusade was entrusted to Bremonds daughter Charisse Bremond Weaver. Under her stewardship Brotherhood Crusade has steadily progressed in achieving its mission and goals.
Following in the ’footprints’ of her father Walter Bremond Charisse Bremond Weaver is the first female President and CEO of the Brotherhood Crusade.
Thank you all for your generous support to the Brotherhood Crusade.
Sincerely
We believe South Los Angeles can be a safe, thriving, culturally relevant and inclusive community that provides all residents equitable access to human & social services and continually improves their quality of life. Our mission is to remove and/or help
