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Melina Abdullah

President/Director · Center for Black Power

President/Director at Center for Black Power. Listed as an officer, director, or key employee across 2 organizations on the Form 990 record.

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Reported as President/Director of Center for Black Power, based in Los Angeles, CA.

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Also listed as President/Director of Grassroots Organizers Collective, uncompensated.

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Center for Black Power President/Director · $167K revenue · Los Angeles, CATo be a center for Black radical imagining, collective power-building, intellectual investment, artistic and cultural production, political…Filed FY2024, FY2023 · Source: Form 990, Part VII

Grassroots Organizers Collective President/Director · $206K revenue · Los Angeles, CATo educate the public and advocate for public policies that promote racial, economic, and social justice in California and throughout the country.Filed FY2024 · Source: Form 990, Part VII

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Other people named Melina Abdullah

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Melina Abdullah 2 organizations · Sacramento, CACalifornia Faculty Association (seiu Local 1983)

Melina Abdullah 1 organization · Los Angeles, CAThe Reverence Project

Melina Abdullah 1 organization · Los Angeles, CALos Angeles African American Womens Public Policy Institute - Laaawppi

Melina Abdullah 1 organization · Los Angeles, CAStrategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education

Melina Abdullah 1 organization · Los Angeles, CACrenshaw Subway Coalition

Melina Abdullah 1 organization · Los Angeles, CACangress DBA Los Angeles Community Action Network

Melina Abdullah 1 organization · Los Angeles, CABlack Lives Matter Grassroots INC

Melina Abdullah 1 organization · Cincinnati, OHThe National Council for Black Studies INC

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Jan Williams

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Joseph Williams

Secretary/Director · FY2024

Paula Minor

Treasurer · FY2022

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