Block to the Boardroom (B2B) Academy
Where potential meets power.
A City Help of the Triad and Black Male Summit program that moves young men from the block to the boardroom — not as a slogan, as a sequence.
The Academy is the year-round engine behind the Summit. Where the Fall Forum is a first handshake and the Summit is a weekend, the Academy is the sustained work: workshops, mentorship, and service projects that stack over months.
Program pillars
- Aspiration
- Raise the ceiling first. Young men meet professionals who look like them and hear how the path actually got walked.
- Agency
- Skills that put decisions back in their hands — money, communication, conflict, and the discipline to follow through.
- Access
- Rooms, introductions, and internships. The door is the program; the Academy is what gets them through it.
How it runs
- Workshops
- Facilitated sessions on leadership, professionalism, and financial capability.
- Mentorship
- Sustained contact with community leaders, corporate executives, and college students.
- Community service
- Team projects that put the skills to work in Guilford County neighborhoods.
- Summit pipeline
- Academy participants staff and attend the Black Male Summit and the Fall Forums.