Who WE ARE

Metro DEEP is a community-informed Black Economic Development Organization geared to developing partnerships and cooperation around economic mobility, opportunity, and projects which serve the Denver and Colorado Springs Metro Area’s African-descended community. Metro DEEP was founded to become an infrastructure and ecosystem that develops, connects and sustains an economic ecosystem, including ownership and autonomy, thereby increasing Black wealth.

If the racial wealth divide is not addressed, median Black household wealth is on a path to hit zero by 2053 (The Road to Zero Wealth, 2017). Nationally, Black families hold just $5.04 for every $100 of wealth and earn just $57.30 for every $100 of income earned by white families (Bell Policy Center, 2019). On top of having less wealth than white Americans, Black Americans are both less likely to move up and more likely to slide down the economic ladder (Brookings Institute, 2022).  Metro DEEP exists to change that trajectory via a duplicating system and planned national expansion.  

Please visit our Programs and Wealth Building Strategies Pages for more specifics and enrollment in them.

Our Mission

Our mission is to build generational wealth and health within the African-descended community by creating an ecosystem that provides access for all through an economic agenda that focuses on youth, workforce, ownership, and entrepreneurial development.

Our Vision

To improve the well-being and socio-economic standing of African-descended communities through the full ownership of our economic destiny.

Our Values

  • We support economic development that brings wealth and power back into our economy and supports the greater community. What we mean by FABU is that we retain majority Black ownership in all of our endeavors, but will work within our global economy to access 100% of the market. That said, we believe that a rising tide lifts all ships and builds a better society.

  • In this work, we bridge relationships within the African-descended communities by creating points of unity and economic cooperation.

  • We become the source of assets, information, and opportunities to strengthen our community and walk with them to where they are destined to be.

  • We build innovation by uniquely designing support of existing infrastructures, collaborating in evolving products, services and systems to build wealth and economic mobility - building our own only where suitable structures do not exist.

Our Goals

  • GOAL ONE:

    To identify all the groups working on issues concerning the Black community while championing the excellence within our community as foundational models to achieve success. We also look to identify existing gaps and barriers in order to create solutions for everyone.

  • GOAL TWO:

    To ensure that all the elements above are included in our strategic planning process and programming. In order to be successful, we must ensure a common vision that is inclusive of all segments of our community and have agreement that even when we are not explicitly "working together" we are concurrently "working towards" the same goals and for the greater good of our Tribe.

  • GOAL THREE:

    To then build systems, curriculum, and infrastructure that will enable us to execute on a shared vision to help businesses grow, entrepreneurs to have better access to opportunities, and most importantly, to ensure individuals and their families can participate and be able to take advantage of the project, as they build wealth supported by the knowledge and tools that encourage generational transfers of said wealth.

Metro DEEP also raises additional funding to extend our reach and to make capital investments that will sustainably fund our initiative long term.

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The PYRAMIDS of W.E.A.L.T.H. Building

Wellness

Building Wellness into the African Descended Community through the inclusion of whole person elements in each of our programs and intimate connection to health partners.

Excellence

Demonstrating Excellence in our community, within corporate structures, and in our everyday lives.

Agency

Exercising our Agency to build infrastructure that supports the growth and continued development of our businesses and communities.

Leadership

Displaying Leadership by advocating the importance of mental health, physical wellbeing, education, and socio-political engagement.

Tribe

Cultivating resources, information, and opportunity-rich environments geared toward building individuals as whole persons and as effective contributors to our Tribe.

Harmony

Instilling a sense of congruence and Harmony in our children that shapes their world into an outlook towards a positive collective future orientation.