Enterprising Black Orlando - EBO

02/09/2026

01/09/2026

Black philanthropy has always been reciprocal. It is a rhythm our communities have kept for generations, where the people who show up for you today are the same people you show up for tomorrow.

Brian McKinney, Founder of the KMD Foundation, has felt both sides of it this year. He is used to being the one organizing the day and calling in the volunteers. But when his family hit a hard stretch, the people around him moved before he could figure out how to ask.

That is what makes this tradition durable. It does not depend on anyone having plenty, only on all of us staying close enough to notice when it is somebody's turn, and honest enough to let ourselves be found when it is ours. Brian gave to this community for years and this community gave back to him, and that is the whole practice, carried between us for as long as we keep it moving.

Our hope is that we carry this well beyond Black Philanthropy Month, into every season that follows, because our people need us the same in September as they did in August.

31/08/2026

As we bring Black Philanthropy Month to a close, we are taking a moment to sit with what it asked of us.

For a month, we have been naming the ways our community has always given. The kind of giving that happens between neighbors, in families, across kitchen tables and church pews, from people who saw a need and moved toward it without waiting to be asked.

Generosity is what opens the hand. Trust is what makes it mean something. Trust that the people living closest to the need understand it best. Trust that what we place in one another's care will be held well.
That is what we are grounding this work in, long after August ends.

We hope that this month has shown you something you already carried. That you have been part of this the whole time, and that what you give, however you give it, belongs to a tradition much older than any of us.

31/08/2026

Ask Deloria Nelson Streete, President of Authentic Culture and Engagement Solutions, how she learned to give, and she will tell you about the people who took her with them.⁠
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Her grandmother, Nana, was the one who mentored the community spiritually, and she was delighted to have a granddaughter who could read. So Deloria went along, little girl in tow, reading scripture at the bedsides of the sick and the shut in while Nana warmed the room and made sure everybody was fed. Her father showed her another version of it through the National Bar Association, surrounded by lawyers who had done well and understood that doing well meant reaching back.⁠
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Nobody ever sat her down to explain it. She was just there while it was happening, and it became hers. That is how this moves through our families, and it is why her youngest son sits in law school today with a heart shaped the same way.⁠
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Black philanthropy has always lived in our time, our talent, and our treasure, and in the joy of bringing the next generation along so they can carry it further than we did.⁠
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28/08/2026

✨ Meet Marilyn Drayton, Strategic Advisor and Founder of DrayMont Enterprises!

Marilyn spent more than thirty-five years in financial services, corporate citizenship, and community economic development. She served as Senior Vice President and Senior Manager of Philanthropy and Community Impact at Wells Fargo, as South Region Group Manager at Carolina First and TD Bank, and as a Community Development Market Manager at Bank of America, and across those roles she drove initiatives in housing affordability, small business growth, and financial health, which means she learned exactly how capital moves through a region and exactly where it stops short of the people who need it most.

She could have retired quietly, but instead she founded DrayMont Enterprises and turned everything those institutions taught her toward the communities they overlooked, advising organizations, foundations, and public agencies on high-impact philanthropy, CRA compliance, and community investment strategy. Her recognitions include the Florida Impact Award, the Florida Affordable Housing Leadership Award, the Martin Luther King Dream Movers Award, and the National Council of Negro Women Living the Legacy Award.

What has been missing is someone who knows the system well enough to move it, and Marilyn does. Together, we are directing capital toward the places it should have reached generations ago.

Share this with someone who has been waiting on capital to reach their block.

▪ This is what it looks like when the system finally moves!

28/08/2026

Three voices. Three generations. One mic.

Marylin Fairley, Shawn Welcome, and Delaney Jocelyn are taking the stage at the Legacy Lives Here Luncheon.

What they have to say to each other is the conversation our community has been circling for years, about who built what we stand on, who is carrying it now, and who gets to decide what comes next. Spoken word gives us a way to say it out loud, in one room, across every generation in it.

This is the kind of moment you feel in the room, not the recap.

📍 The Celeste Hotel | Orlando
📅 Saturday, August 29
🕚 11 AM to 3 PM

We're building the village. We hope you'll be in the room!

27/08/2026

A gift can meet an immediate need. But philanthropy can also help create something that continues long after the original gift has been made.

◾️ It can help a student complete their education.
◾️ It can give a nonprofit the resources to serve more families.
◾️ It can help an entrepreneur purchase equipment, hire someone, expand into a new space, or prepare for the next stage of growth.
◾️ It can preserve cultural institutions, support community programs, strengthen neighborhoods, and contribute to opportunities that another generation will inherit.

That is one of the possibilities we are celebrating during Black Philanthropy Month. Our generosity can provide relief when relief is needed, but it can also become part of something bigger: stability, ownership, opportunity, and legacy.

At EBO, we spend a lot of time thinking about the systems and resources that help Black businesses and communities thrive.

Philanthropy has a meaningful role to play in that ecosystem.

When we give with intention, we are not only asking,
“What can this support today?” This Saturday, we gather at the Legacy Lives Here Luncheon to answer that question collectively.

27/08/2026

✨️One conversation sits at the center of the Legacy Lives Here Luncheon⁠
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This Saturday, three distinguished gentlemen will come together for a fireside conversation exploring what it takes to build lasting power, possibility, and stronger communities.⁠
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◾️ Xavier Ramey, Founder and CEO of Justice Informed, brings a career shaped by social impact, philanthropy, economic development, equity, and institutional change.⁠
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◾️ Demetrius Brooks, Director of Business and Technology Innovation at Justice Informed, CEO of We Are Light, and Senior Pastor of Revelations of Christ Kingdom Ministries, works at the intersection of faith, technology, entrepreneurship, and community empowerment.⁠
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◾️ Yohance Pettis, Partner at Osborne, Francis & Pettis and former Founder and Chief of the Civil Rights Unit for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, has dedicated his career to civil rights, justice, and protecting communities.⁠
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Three distinct paths. Three perspectives shaped by the work.⁠
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Together, they will take on a question that sits at the heart of this gathering: What must we be willing to build, protect, strengthen, and transform now so that the generations coming behind us inherit more possibility than we did?⁠
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Legacy is shaped by the institutions we strengthen.⁠
The opportunities we create.⁠
The systems we challenge.⁠
The people we develop.⁠
The communities we invest in.⁠
And the courage to imagine and build what comes next.⁠
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📍 The Celeste Hotel | Orlando⁠
📅 Saturday, August 29⁠
🕚 11 AM–3 PM⁠
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✨️ Reserve your seat or your table at https://bit.ly/4gLgMAS.
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