• 2023 Birth & Breastfeeding Leadership Institute

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  • Questions? Email us at institute@bmbfa.org.

  • About Birth and Breastfeeding Leadership Institute

    The Birth and Breastfeeding Leadership Institute, created by Black Mothers’ Breastfeeding Association (BMBFA), is a pioneering model that builds community leadership at the intersection of racial equity and maternal-child-health with a special interest in birth and breastfeeding outcomes. In 2019, BMBFA received a three-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to bring forth the vision of its Founding Executive Director, Kiddada Green, in providing support for emerging, evolving, and established leaders in maternal and child health.


    The Birth & Breastfeeding Leadership Institute is led by a multidisciplinary national group of healthcare, public, community-based and private sector professionals, focused on improving the health and mortality of Black mothers and babies in the United States. The Institute uses a racial equity and systems change approach that focuses on the social ecological factors that influence birth and breastfeeding outcomes for Black families namely: individual, interpersonal, community/organizational, policy/macro-system, and socio-historical/socio-cultural context.


    BMBFA recently published a white paper, Advancing Black Community-level Leadership for Birth & Breastfeeding, describing the significant importance of a virtual leadership institute designed and influenced by a cross-sectional team of Black leaders to activate community-level leadership to influence positive Black birth outcomes.

    Impact of COVID-19 on Black Breastfeeding and Lactation 

    COVID-19 has forced the disruption or discontinuation of evidence-based interventions for Black breastfeeding support, including those recommended in the Surgeon General's Call To Action, such as peer-led support and community-based interventions. Studies show that breastfeeding is the first preventative medicine. Breastfeeding is also the safest and most reliable form of infant feeding during a crisis. This pandemic is devastating Black communities, leaving community organizations stretched for both human and economic resources. The burden of providing breastfeeding education, promotion and lactation support is necessarily shifting to online spaces through groups as well as healthcare providers. Now, more than ever before, it is critical that Black communities be equipped with the leadership needed to repair the harms to breastfeeding norms among Black families, regain momentum in reducing racial disparities and to, ultimately, meet the goals of Healthy People 2020: 81.9% breastfeeding initiation and 60.6% duration at 6 months.

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  • Benefits of Sponsorship

  • Custom sponsorship packages will be created including the following benefits: 

    • Brand Enhancement: Company recognition in traditional and social media, website, mass email, learning management system, and welcome and pinning ceremonies.
    • Advance Racial Equity: Contributions help to activate, strengthen and advance the power of leadership inherent in all Black communities.  
    • Community Benefit: Contributions support more favorable Black birth and breastfeeding outcomes and community wellness.
  • Suggested Contributions

  • Benefit

    Supporter 

    $5,000

    Patron

    $20,000

    Champion

    $37,500

    Participant Scholarships

    Partial Cohort

    2 scholarships

    Half Cohort

    7 scholarships

    Full Cohort

    15 scholarships

    Regular interface with ED to discuss opportunities for a long-term partnership x x x
    Acknowledgement on website x x x
    Mass email acknowledgement x x x
    Acknowledgement in Annual Report x x x
    Product distribution opportunity x x x
    Video acknowledgement on IG and LinkedIn   x x
    Recognition on IG and Facebook (post and story)   x x
    Acknowledgement on Facebook banner   x x
    Acknowledgement in press release   x x
    Pre-recorded welcome message   x x
    Formal acknowledgement at pinning ceremony   x x
    Co-design of social media recognitions and acknowledgements   x x
    Utilization of social media promotional/boost tools   x x
    Prime recognition on learning management system     x
    Feature recognition on learning management system   x  
    Video acknowledgement on website homepage     x
    Custom sponsor package option     x
  • Disclaimer

    *Sponsor/Exhibitor Policy – By choosing to become a sponsor/exhibitor, you agree to the following sponsor and exhibitor policy: This policy applies to all promotional activity related in any way to the BMBFA, including but not limited to seminars/conferences, summits, displays and program advertising. BMBFA will not accept any advertisement for human milk substitutes. Advertisements will not be accepted from any company/organization that produces human milk substitutes. Acceptance of a sponsorship, advertisement or exhibit does not constitute BMBFA’s endorsement of the company/organization, its product, or service. If a sponsor or exhibitor is found to be in violation of these policies, the relationship between BMBFA and the sponsor or exhibitor will be terminated immediately. In addition, the said sponsor or exhibitor shall remain responsible for all unpaid fees, costs, or expenses incurred in connection with the said sponsor’s or exhibitor’s related promotional activities and shall forfeit all claims to fees paid to any in connection with all such promotional activities. BMBFA in its sole discretion will determine if the said sponsor or exhibitor is in violation of this policy.
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