South Bend Black Empowerment Fund seeks social, economic, environmental, political, and legal justice for all people of the African Diaspora in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan, the area known as the Michiana region.

We believe that no one is free until Black people are free, because Black people have been personally and systematically deprived of power and it is our duty to reclaim it for ourselves. In doing so, everyone is liberated from systems of oppressive domination.  The organization's area of operation corresponds to the watershed lands of the Kankakee River (“land open to view”) and the watershed lands of the St. Joseph, originally named Sakiwäsipi (“Outlet River”).