A nine-month cohort for adults across Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia. Financial education, historical understanding, community reflection, practical planning, and legacy action, in one sustained experience.
Stock equity accounted for nearly 30 percent of white household wealth and 4 percent of Black household wealth.
The gap was built across generations through unequal access to wages, homeownership, education, business capital, investment markets, and inheritance. Closing the gap requires financial knowledge alongside access to assets, capital, ownership, and inheritance.
Source: Brookings Institution, Black Wealth Is Increasing, but So Is the Racial Wealth Gap, January 2024.
Join the Generational Impact Project for a free in-person Public Learning & Resource Forum exploring the connection between media literacy, narrative power, and financial stewardship.
Participants examine the family history and lived experience shaping their financial decisions while building real plans for savings, debt, investing, and legacy. Everyone moves through the same curriculum together, with no separate tracks and no beginner tier.
Participants move through a full nine-month arc together, with room to apply what they learn between sessions.
December is the program's one full break. January continues as a paid working month with lighter programming and continued access to instructors and subject-matter experts.
Estate plans, beneficiary designations, and the documentation of intention are how wealth actually moves between generations. This cohort helps participants understand these decisions, document their intentions, and turn legacy goals into practical action steps.
A bi-weekly conversation on wealth, healing, and legacy. Free and open to everyone, whether or not you're part of a future cohort.
Episode 1 covers why the Generational Impact Project exists, why wealth and healing have to happen together, and what this cohort is built to do.
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Contributions help expand access to the GIP cohort and support the public programming, research, and outreach building toward it, along with the educators, facilitators, materials, and infrastructure it takes to deliver the cohort with care.
Support GIPCommunity sessions provide facilitated reflection and group discussion. They do not replace licensed mental health care.
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