Fun Facts
Who is most likely to get up to grab a cafe au lait at the start of a staff meeting?
Nia
When was the Boston Ujima Project founded?
2017
Who is the primary founder of Boston Ujima Project?
Aaron Tanaka
How many notes do we have? Name them?
Nia, Imani, Umoja, Kujichagulia
When was the Cohambee River Collective started?
1974
Name an African country that Cierra wants to learn more about?
When was the Ujima Fund launched?
2018
How many community members came together to create the working group that would become Ujima?
40
What is the 7th Ground rule shared during Open Member Meetings?
Take Care of Your Needs
This person became the first African American and one of the first women to publish a book of poetry in the colonies in 1773.
Phillis Wheatley
Which staff member named Japanese Breakfast as one of their top three musical artists of all time?
Paige
When was the Ujima concept paper drafted?
2015
Which organization was Boston Ujima Project's first fiscal sponsor?
City Life / Vida Urbana
What are the two companies Ujima Fund investor Shironda White oversee?
Cupcake Therapy and CauseEDU
This 19th century abolitionist began his career in Massachusetts, speaking first at the Massachusetts Antislavery Society’s annual meeting in Nantucket in 1841, shortly after settling in New Bedford.
Fredrick Douglass
Which Spike Lee film was named by Jenny as her favorite joint?
Malcolm X
When was CERO Cooperative founded?
2012
Name three of Ujima's grassroots community partners
City Life/Vida Urbana, Matahari, Right to the City Alliance, Black Economic Justice Institute
In Aug 2016 during Ujima’s Solidarity Summit in Roxbury, how many people invested $20,000 democratically to 5 Black & immigrant owned businesses with 0% interest loans?
185
The prolific Great Barrington, Mass., native attended Harvard and became the first African American to earn a Harvard PhD.
William Edward Burghardt (W.E.B.) DuBois
What was the final count of members who voted in the last vote?
73
When was Nia officially hired as the Executive Director of Ujima?
April 2017
Name one of the businesses which received investment in Ujima's pilot participatory budgeting process, Solidarity Summit, in August 2016?
Bowdoin Bike School, Fidalgo Wholesale, Fresh Food Generation, Norma Rosario Catering, Sydney Janey Design / Boston Paper Works
How many Ujima Good Business Standards Categories do we have? Name 3?
8 (worker power, community power, environment, health & safety, customers & vendors, community ownership, good faith effort, good local job?
This 18th century Bostonian lobbied for public education, helped organize a community school in the Beacon Hill, and influenced his contemporaries into becoming freemasons, a division that still bears his name.
Prince Hall