Black Church Consumer Index Survey Project (BCCIS)

The National Black Church Initiative's (NBCI) Black Church Consumer Index Survey (BCCIS) is an innovative tool to track and analyze up-to-date data covering our membership's interactions with the market place. BCCIS enables NBCI to better understand the behaviors and patterns corresponding to a wide array of products and issues across our 34,000 churches and 15.7 million members.

National Black Church 10-Year Economic Development Plan

A Fresh Economic Start for the Black Church

The NBCI Financial Literacy Program based on 4 basic principles, budgeting, debt reduction, savings and staying within your budget.

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Why Don't More Financial Advisors Look Like Lazetta Braxton"? - How to Address the Industry's Race Problem More black families are entering the economic mainstream, have more income and are saving for college and retirement.... They need advice and [the financial services industry] is passing up millions of dollars by not reaching out to them. -Rev. Anthony Evans

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NBCI Mission Statement Concerning Personal and Business Finance

Over the past eight years the Black community has experienced what amounts to an economic tsunami. Billions of dollars have left the Black community through the foreclosure crisis, the devaluing of existing homes owned by African Americans, the devaluing of African American retirement plans and 401Ks and the loss of employment and business opportunities. We will focus our energy on learning how to build wealth and manage it. We will provide actionable information on municipal bonds, stocks, savings, currency investment, insurance and other wealth building tools.

34,000 Black Churches of NBCI Have Asked The Federal Trade Commission and The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau To Investigate The Airlines, Hotels and Car Rental Point System.pdf [121kb]
Our Members Think It Is Rigged
34,000 Churches of The National Black Church Initiative Launches A Boycott Against AT&T.pdf [216kb]
Rotten customer service and high prices
NBCI Launches a Boycott with 34,000 Churches Against Green Dot Corporation Credit Cards.pdf [125kb]
They target the poor
NBCI Locates Nearly Sixty Thousand Complaints Against BB&T Among African Americans in the Southeast .pdf [121kb]
Phase 1 has ended. Phase two begins in 30 days, National Black Religious Broadcasters Joins Boycott - Archived February 25, 2014
NBCI Launches National Boycott Against BB&T Bank.pdf [132kb]
We declare a national boycott against BB&T over the next seven years and are investigating 35,000 Complaints Against BB&T

See our full statement "A Note on the Current Recession: The Game Has Changed".

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