About Us
What is BBPU?
The Beaverton Black People's Union began as a volunteer-led collective of families with Black children organized to create community and support the success and well-being of our children and families in Beaverton. Our work continues to support youth and their families while expanding as an intergenerational organization providing culturally specific programming and advocacy for our Black Community across Beaverton and Washington County. Click to learn more about our history and our vision for the future.
What if every Black child in Beaverton wanted to grow old in Beaverton?
Every year we see families go. Until Beaverton Black Parent Union, every year we said goodbye to a family that found the isolation, disconnection, and exclusion too hard for them or their children to bear. What if they stayed? What would it take?
In the absence of social infrastructure and culturally relevant spaces, BBPU has been building the community connective tissue required to build an institution. Our vision is to build the ecosystem of resources needed for a connected community to feel safe, loved and seen; a place where Black people of any age want to live and stay.
