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Bro. Kermit Eady
Excerpt of Bro. Kermit Eady's show "The Empowerment Hour"
Legendary.
Bro. Kermit Eady, host of "The Empowerment Hour," is the Founder and former President/CEO of the
Black United Fund of New York. BUFNY was founded in 1979 as a mechanism to organize the human and
financial resources of Black and minority people to participate in their growth, development, and
empowerment, by utilizing the operational principles of self-help, mutual aid, volunteerism, and venture
philanthropy. Prior to developing BUFNY, Mr. Eady worked for 15 years in the fields of Social Work and
Education, holding such positions as Assistant Professor at Medgar Evers College, Director of
Admissions and Recruitment at the Norfolk State University Graduate School of Social Work, and
Manager with the City of New York.
As the leader of BUFNY, Mr. Eady organized and broke through corporate barriers to gain access to
workplace charitable solicitation. His efforts led the self-help organization to its current level of
participation in payroll deduction systems at such corporations as IBM, New York Telephone (Verizon),
AT&T and Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies). He also organized access to payroll deduction
systems in City, State, County and Federal agencies of New York: the New York City Combined Municipal
Campaign (CMC) and Board of Education, City University of New York (CUNY) system, New York City
Housing and Transit Authorities, Carver Bank, Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, Greater Harlem
Nursing Home, Edwin Gould Children Services, Health and Hospitals Corporation, E. G. Bowman
Company, Tri-borough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New
York State Employee Federated Appeal (SEFA), Westchester and Nassau Counties, Bronx-Lebanon
Hospital, North General Hospital in Harlem, and others.
Millions of people all over the country now benefit and have greater freedom of choice due to Mr. Eady’s
pioneering efforts through the thousands of charitable organizations that followed his lead into the
payroll deduction marketplaces. Hundreds of thousands of employees have also benefited in expanded
workplace options for giving. Consequently, millions of dollars are now being given to non-traditional, as
well as mainstream organizations. From 1989 through 1991, Mr. Eady led BUFNY to become the first
organization other than United Way, to manage the Combined Federal Campaign in New York City and
set record-breaking results by raising over $6 million for over 1,500 charities.
Under Mr. Eady’s leadership, BUFNY maintained its commitment to the empowerment of Blacks and
other communities by providing financial and technical assistance in excess of $15 million to over 2,000
community-based organizations, helping save over $540,000 in Black-owned land in the Sea Islands of
South Carolina, and developing housing for low and moderate-income families in response to the urging
of contributors and their support of the expansion of BUFNY’s commitment to economic development.
Mr. Eady led BUFNY’s economic development expansion with the opening of the first Harvest
Information & Technology Center, June 1997, in Harlem. The second center, located in Brooklyn’s
MetroTech Center, was added in 2001. The Harvest Centers provide copy, computer and internet
communication services, in addition to a wealth of business and personal information and document
preparation services.
After 9/11, BUFNY established the only Black victim relief fund in the U.S.A., and raised over $65,000.
By mid-2003, Mr. Eady successfully negotiated the acquisition of radio station WCKL 560-AM in upstate
Catskill, NY to help deliver the much-needed message of empowerment to Black and other
communities. This acquisition placed BUFNY in a unique and advantageous position among non-profit
organizations in New York State.
The Black United Fund of New York was founded over 25 years ago with only $8,000 in capital. It was a
well-positioned, proven economic development institution, whose assets and program services grew to
over $100 million.
The unique 25-year experiment in community empowerment and self-reliance using the principle of self-
help that Mr. Eady led with the Black United Fund of New York stands as a powerful testament to
commitment, dedication and vision for community empowerment and nation building —now and the
future.
Eady Associates
In October 2003, Kermit Eady founded Eady Associates, a full service consulting company whose
principles have years of combined training and work experience in the areas of for-profit and
not-for-profit business development, organizing, social work, motivational speaking, housing, and land
development, accessing payroll deduction markets, fundraising, computer systems, and network
integration, website design, financial systems and services, and more. Eady Associates’ primary thrust
is to deliver the best consultation services that can help lead to empowerment and the achievement of
personal and/or business objectives in support of one’s vision and mission which brings about
networking and interlocking, thereby creating a community support and delivery system.
In addition, from May 2005 through September 2005 Mr. Eady was responsible for raising over $200,000
for The New York Christian Times sponsorship of the Black Church Means Business Conference.
Bro. Kermit Eady, host of "The Empowerment Hour," is the Founder and former President/CEO of the
Black United Fund of New York. BUFNY was founded in 1979 as a mechanism to organize the human and
financial resources of Black and minority people to participate in their growth, development, and
empowerment, by utilizing the operational principles of self-help, mutual aid, volunteerism, and venture
philanthropy. Prior to developing BUFNY, Mr. Eady worked for 15 years in the fields of Social Work and
Education, holding such positions as Assistant Professor at Medgar Evers College, Director of
Admissions and Recruitment at the Norfolk State University Graduate School of Social Work, and
Manager with the City of New York.
As the leader of BUFNY, Mr. Eady organized and broke through corporate barriers to gain access to
workplace charitable solicitation. His efforts led the self-help organization to its current level of
participation in payroll deduction systems at such corporations as IBM, New York Telephone (Verizon),
AT&T and Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies). He also organized access to payroll deduction
systems in City, State, County and Federal agencies of New York: the New York City Combined Municipal
Campaign (CMC) and Board of Education, City University of New York (CUNY) system, New York City
Housing and Transit Authorities, Carver Bank, Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, Greater Harlem
Nursing Home, Edwin Gould Children Services, Health and Hospitals Corporation, E. G. Bowman
Company, Tri-borough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, New
York State Employee Federated Appeal (SEFA), Westchester and Nassau Counties, Bronx-Lebanon
Hospital, North General Hospital in Harlem, and others.
Millions of people all over the country now benefit and have greater freedom of choice due to Mr. Eady’s
pioneering efforts through the thousands of charitable organizations that followed his lead into the
payroll deduction marketplaces. Hundreds of thousands of employees have also benefited in expanded
workplace options for giving. Consequently, millions of dollars are now being given to non-traditional, as
well as mainstream organizations. From 1989 through 1991, Mr. Eady led BUFNY to become the first
organization other than United Way, to manage the Combined Federal Campaign in New York City and
set record-breaking results by raising over $6 million for over 1,500 charities.
Under Mr. Eady’s leadership, BUFNY maintained its commitment to the empowerment of Blacks and
other communities by providing financial and technical assistance in excess of $15 million to over 2,000
community-based organizations, helping save over $540,000 in Black-owned land in the Sea Islands of
South Carolina, and developing housing for low and moderate-income families in response to the urging
of contributors and their support of the expansion of BUFNY’s commitment to economic development.
Mr. Eady led BUFNY’s economic development expansion with the opening of the first Harvest
Information & Technology Center, June 1997, in Harlem. The second center, located in Brooklyn’s
MetroTech Center, was added in 2001. The Harvest Centers provide copy, computer and internet
communication services, in addition to a wealth of business and personal information and document
preparation services.
After 9/11, BUFNY established the only Black victim relief fund in the U.S.A., and raised over $65,000.
By mid-2003, Mr. Eady successfully negotiated the acquisition of radio station WCKL 560-AM in upstate
Catskill, NY to help deliver the much-needed message of empowerment to Black and other
communities. This acquisition placed BUFNY in a unique and advantageous position among non-profit
organizations in New York State.
The Black United Fund of New York was founded over 25 years ago with only $8,000 in capital. It was a
well-positioned, proven economic development institution, whose assets and program services grew to
over $100 million.
The unique 25-year experiment in community empowerment and self-reliance using the principle of self-
help that Mr. Eady led with the Black United Fund of New York stands as a powerful testament to
commitment, dedication and vision for community empowerment and nation building —now and the
future.
Eady Associates
In October 2003, Kermit Eady founded Eady Associates, a full service consulting company whose
principles have years of combined training and work experience in the areas of for-profit and
not-for-profit business development, organizing, social work, motivational speaking, housing, and land
development, accessing payroll deduction markets, fundraising, computer systems, and network
integration, website design, financial systems and services, and more. Eady Associates’ primary thrust
is to deliver the best consultation services that can help lead to empowerment and the achievement of
personal and/or business objectives in support of one’s vision and mission which brings about
networking and interlocking, thereby creating a community support and delivery system.
In addition, from May 2005 through September 2005 Mr. Eady was responsible for raising over $200,000
for The New York Christian Times sponsorship of the Black Church Means Business Conference.
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