The Campaign for Black Male Achievement was launched in 2008 as a three-year, cross-program campaign to provide expanded resources to address, and help reverse, the ways in which African American boys and men are stigmatized, criminalized, and excluded from the U.S. economic and political mainstream.

The campaign builds on the Open Society Institute’s expertise and past work to reduce incarceration, promote racial justice, and support youth engagement and leadership development. The principal focus will be on under-educated, under-employed, and otherwise isolated black males who populate America’s underclass. While still in the development stage, the campaign is likely to provide grantmaking and other operational support for education reform; promotion of economic opportunity; criminal justice reform; and development of a communications framework to change public attitudes toward black males.

Campaign inquiries can be directed to cbma@sorosny.org.