AWARDS

  • Awarded grant from Miami Shores Community Alliance for Juneteenth 2024 and Black History Month 2025
  • Connection Award 2024: 10 Days of Connection - Champion of Connecting Communities in South Florida
  • Awarded grant from Community Fund of Broward for Awkward Dinners and Unity360 Community Dialogues in 2024
  • Executive Director, Roni Bennett, 2023 Miami Shores Citizen of the Year from The Greater Miami Shores Chamber of Commerce
  • Awarded grant from Florida Humanities for "The 20th of May: The History and Heritage of Florida's Emancipation Day" Digital History Project
  • Executive Director, Roni Bennett, Weiss Serota/MDB Community Impact Award - 2023
  • 2023 Greater Miami Shores Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year Award
  • Barry University Community Partner Award 2022
  • Black Voices for Black Justice Fund - Roni Bennett 2021
  • Awarded grants from Miami Shores Community Alliance for 2019 and 2020 Black History Month programs.
  • Awkward Dinners won the 2018 Philanthropy Miami’s Shark Tank contest.
  • Awarded a grant from the Florida Humanities Council for Unity360 Race In Retrospect Author Lecture Series in 2019.
  • Awarded a grant from Unite Miami Shores in 2017 for Unity360 Community Race Dialogues.
  • Honored with the Rodney Thaxton Racial Justice Award from the Greater Miami Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 2017.
  • Unite Miami Shores Award in 2017 and 2020 for Unity360 Community Dialogues.