Welcome to The
The Boys and young men of color collective
Collaboratively creating data models with the community to empower our Boys and Young men of color
Help us grow!
We’re just starting to build our community and need YOUR help!
At The Collective, WE, Columbus boys and young men of color just like YOU, are the experts. We know what’s best for our lives and what we need to succeed!
OUR voices are powerful. OUR opinions and stories are important. Together WE are unstoppable!
The more we hear from you, the more we’ll know where to start our work. We want to learn from and with you, support change that matters to you and design a better world together!
Opportunities to get involved and share are coming soon. Join us today to stay in the know!
What's Up! We’re The Collective’s FIRST Youth Board!
We’re a group of seven thoughtful and engaged young men of color ages 13-20 that come together twice a month to learn, mentor, build/serve community and voice what matters to us.
Along with our Youth Board Director, Khamall Jahi, we discuss real issues with Columbus community and political leaders, learn what it takes to change our city, and help guide and inform The Collective’s work.
DATA tells A STORY not THE STORY!
OUR voices DRIVE change!
Data is powerful. It’s any information used to make decisions about our lives whether they’re ones we make ourselves or ones made for us. OUR stories and opinions are an important part of this data. But decisions that impact our lives have and continue to be made WITHOUT our input!
We’re changing this NOW!
Our support team is working with us to start focus groups, create a data dashboard, develop a survey app and more. We need YOUR stories to understand what YOU want. So we’re figuring out the best ways to collect them.
As we grow, we hope this data grows with us and becomes more accessible to you. Hear about our app release, data launches, opportunities to share your story and more…
Sign up to be a FIRST responder today!
