Join the Movement for a More Just and Equitable Economy

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About INSPIREquity℠
Since its founding, the United States has created systems that support white wealth and suppress Black wealth. From slavery and Jim Crow segregation to wealth-stripping practices like redlining or the construction of highways through predominantly Black communities, Black families have been repeatedly and systematically deprived of wealth-building opportunities.

Meanwhile, national policies, such as the Homestead Act or GI Bill, have disproportionately benefited and subsidized white wealth-building. And, because wealth begets wealth, this has resulted in a significant and growing disparity, known as the racial wealth gap

In 2022, the median wealth of Black families was $44,890 compared to $285,000 for white families.

– The Brookings Institution

Take Action!

INSPIREquity℠ invites white people, who have benefited from these discriminatory systems, to take restorative action by pledging at least 1% of their personal net worth over the next three years to close the racial wealth gap.

By shifting a portion of your wealth to Black-led initiatives to support Black wealth building, you are directly contributing to a more inclusive economy – one that works for all.

Take The Pledge

“For every $15 in wealth the average Black family has, the average white family has $100.”

— The Brookings Institution

See the Change: Our Collective Impact in Action

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Channel Your Pledge

After pledging your 1%, INSPIRE® encourages you to invest in Black-led wealth-building pathways. Choose a local or national organization you’re already familiar with, explore options through the Giving Gap, or support organizations recommended by other INSPIRE® pledgers.

Scholarships and Student Debt Relief for Black Students and Graduates
Investing in Capital Growth for Black-Owned Businesses & Entrepreneurs
Funding Opportunities for First-Time Black Homeownership
Other Key Strategies for Building Wealth in Black Communities
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Hope Credit Union provides financial services, leverages resources, and engages in advocacy that strengthens the financial health and wealth of people in under-resourced Deep South communities.


Youthprise to listen to the voices of young people, to give them a seat at the table, and to build programs and systems that are responsive to their needs — and guided by their ideas.


As a community-based housing and commercial land trust operating in Saint Paul and Suburban Ramsey County, Rondo Community Land Trust provides permanently affordable homeownership opportunities for low to moderate income families.


GRO is addressing the root cause of the poverty and the wealth divide by bringing tangible solutions to life for our communities and generating a framework for a just and inclusive economy.

Invest

Thank you for your interest in donating to the INSPIRE campaign. 

You can send donations via Zelle to donation@theinspirecampaign.org or mail us a physical check to: 

INSPIRE Equity, Inc.
88 Shepherd Village Circle
Shepherdstown, WV 25443

Please send us your name and snail/email address to donation@theinspirecampaign.org so we can send you a receipt for your tax deductible donation.
Jamie Campbell Board Member
Jamie Campbell, Ph.D., CDE, is the Associate Dean of Diversity Enhancement Programs at the Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University. Jamie has had a career working with underrepresented persons in academia and corporate America. He has helped to define and shape policy supporting the advancement of individuals who may not have been afforded opportunities to reach their full potential due to systemic barriers. Jamie obtained his BA from Morehouse College, M.Ed., Central Michigan University, and Ph.D. The Pennsylvania State University. Jamie and Kimberly reside in State College PA with their three daughters, Grace, Vivian, and Lillian. He joined the INSPIRE board to help close the wealth gap that African Americans are facing today through words and actions.
Peter O’Driscoll Chair of the Board
Peter O’Driscoll has been executive director of Equitable Food Initiative since 2011, where he leads a multi-stakeholder collaboration to improve wages and working conditions for agricultural labor throughout the Americas. After earning a bachelor’s degree in history and literature from Harvard College and a master’s in economic development from Columbia University, Peter’s prior career covered advocacy, research and program management in several nonprofit organizations focused on humanitarian assistance, refugee relief and international food system reform. He lives with his wife Christine Reesor in Takoma Park, MD, where they raised two daughters. Peter helped to found INSPIRE in 2020 out of a conviction that true racial reconciliation in America requires that our society confront and address the historical inequities that created today’s egregious Black-White racial wealth gap.