HISTORY
H.O.P.E. Dealers Outreach is nonprofit organization that was founded by Frankie Gist after the murder of Trayvon Martin in 2012. The organization was founded out of the need to fight against police brutality, gun violence, homelessness, and other plagues against marginalized communities. Originally under the name, Helping Hands Foundation, Frankie, and his team were able to fight against injustice while spreading positivity throughout their community. H.O.P.E. Dealers Outreach blossomed in 2016 and has continued to lend a helping hand to all those in need. H.O.P.E. stands for helping other people everywhere. For over ten years, HDO has done just that by offering educational programs, back to school supply drives, hygiene drives, and hosting peaceful protests for Winston-Salem, North Carolina area.
Mission
H.O.P.E. Dealers Outreach mission is to build awareness, solutions, and leadership for racial justice by generating transformative ideas, information and experiences. We define racial justice as the systematic fair treatment of people of all races, resulting in equitable opportunities and development. H.O.P.E. Dealers Outreach will actively stand against the systems and conditions that lead to marginalization and oppression and fight daily to be the advocate and resources for marginalized people and communities.
Vision
HOPE Dealers outreach is involved in a lot of activities; however however, we are mainly focused on conducting cutting edge and original research on pressing racial justice issued focused on significance of race to social and economic outcomes in our society, creates coverage that shows the conversation on race in the media and supports advocacy and action on complex racial justice issues in various ways.
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HOPE Dealers envisions a Vibrant world in which people of all race create, share, and enjoy resources and relationships equitably, unleashing individual potential, embracing collective responsibility and generating global prosperity. we strive to be a leading values- driven social justice enter price where the culture and commitment by our multi-racial and diverse members supports individual and organizational excellence and sustainability.
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This organization work with other committed social sector leaders to help alliance strong families and communities to have more of a positive impact in their communities. This organization allows individuals to learn and create new solutions for society's toughest problems and aggregates the best sector of knowledge. We recognize that to achieve our vision, we must lead our social sector in making the changes we want to see in communities. Our change is to;
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Lead, with compassion for social justice
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Stand in the gap to support all those who are affected by inequity
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Create space at the table for all groups to contribute
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Support economic growth in diversity
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Build a society that is committed to engaging the voices and respecting the humanity of all people.