BOARD MEMBER
Carol Blackmon is Principal Consultant of CB Enterprises & Associates, Incorporated. She currently serves as Senior Consultant and Human Rights Coordinator for Southern Rural Black Women’s Initiative for Economic and Social Justice where she trains community leaders and their commissions on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Recently, she led a delegation of 30 rural black women to the United States Human Rights Network Conference to provide testimony related to Extreme poverty in the United States to the United Nations Special Rapporteur for his 2018 report. She was Executive Director of the Mississippi Legislative Black Caucus Foundation for three years.
She was a Program and Executive Coach with the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s Mid-South Delta Initiative providing technical and grant seeking support to designated nonprofits across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. As Program Manager for the Mid South African American Philanthropy Program she successfully coordinated black philanthropy programs and three black philanthropy state conferences in the Mid-South. She is the first program officer hired by Foundation for the Mid-South where she assisted emerging nonprofits in organizational development and grants seeking. As Managing Consultant for the Deep South Delta Consortium she successfully managed the submission of a non-commercial educational radio application to the Federal Communications Commission. For three years she served as a Technical Assistance Coach with YouthBuild USA’s Rural and Tribal programs. She spent five years as a network member of the Deep South Wealth Creation Network value chain where she helped to shape rural wealth creation strategies among regional produce farmers. She represents the deep-south as a steering committee member on the National Rural Assembly.
Her community engagement includes Board Chair, Mississippi Housing Partnership an affordable housing provider and homeless prevention agency, founding board member Greater Jackson Community Foundation, and Board of Directors of Rural Education and Leadership Foundation where she is the Grants Committee Chair. She also served on the boards of the National Center for Black Philanthropy and the Association of Black Foundation Executives. Her policy reform engagement includes local organizing around implementation of welfare reform in Mississippi, grassroots organizing to support public education funding, continued funding of the Child Health Insurance Plan (CHIP), Congressional testimony to eliminate food stamp co-payments, and passage of Mississippi’s landlord tenant and school nurses legislation.