One day, a book will be written about a Black woman from Baltimore who mobilized resources, built
New Leadership Position to Strengthen Mission and Accelerate Growth
Baltimore
Jamye Wooten
is the founder of
CLLCTIVLY,
an organization that’s
2x NFL champion, Torrey Smith introduces us to the financial driver behind a lot of grassroot organization
The origin story of CLLCTIVLY dates back to the 2015 Uprising sparked by the tragic death of Freddie Gray in the custody of the police. Wooten joined with a coalition of grassroots activists, faith-based leaders, and concerned citizens to found Baltimore United for Change.
Baltimore Business Journal - CLLCTIVLY, a Baltimore-based nonprofit, helped raise over $100,000 for
AFRO NEWS - Jamye Wooten encourages Black Americans to look at Black wealth from a holistic lens of
Calais Campbell and the Rockefeller Foundation join forces to support CLLCTIVLY's Covid-19 Baltimore Micro-Grant Fund.
Currently, only 5 percent of racial equity funding in the U.S. is specifically focused on movement-building and grassroots organizing, indicating an urgent need to increase funding for activists and groups that are advancing sweeping change. As the Black community struggles to manage these overlapping pandemics, philanthropy has a critical role to play.