Support Jimiri’s Youth Leadership Program & Board of Directors Discretionary Fund!

Jimiri is a social justice nonprofit that promotes cross-racial friendships and leadership training for middle-school and high-school students. To help address the socio-economic disparities of segregation, we bring students together in small, racially diverse groups to build friendship, empathy, and understanding across racial lines.

Middle-school students gather on Sunday afternoons at Black history and civil rights museums for 10 weeks during each of their 6th, 7th, and 8th-grade years. Once there, they engage in social justice curricula and common-interest activities led by high-school and college facilitators who previously completed the middle-school program. In this way, from middle school through college, our young Jimiri leaders build lifelong, cross-racial friendships that will serve as the foundation for the next generation of social justice leadership.

Tuition is free for all families, with funding provided via scholarships from private financing.