Black History Month highlight: Family Within Us

In honor of Black History Month, we are highlighting a few Black-founded and led nonprofit organizations that are making a difference and impact every day. The second organization in our series is Family Within Us.

About Family Within Us
Family Within Us Inc. is dedicated to educating Black men and advocating for resources for Black fathers to be self-sufficient in order to protect and provide for their families. Its goal is to build strong black families with no father left behind and address community problems such as gender and racial equality, as well as bias and stigma about the Black father and the Black family structure overall.

Another goal is to build an apartment community for young adults with children regardless of the parent’s marital status. The apartment community will be 11 acres and include:
• an art gallery used as a community safe place that displays African American hairstyles,
• a greenhouse to teach agriculture and technology to the community,
• grocery and retail stores,
• a community recreational and educational center for after-school programs and educational and financial planning workshops with a three to five-year stability living plan.

About Rahab Foster Williams
Rahab Foster Williams is a business professional with a B.A and M.B.A. and has served with many family programs as an Eligibility Assistant and Voice of Children Advocate. Miss Foster Williams volunteers for Habitat for Humanity in California and with San Vincent the Paul organization in the state of Seattle, Washington. She also served the disabled community as a Program Vocational Specialist in the department of workforce with Easter Seals Southern California. There, she earned an employment customization certificate by Griffin-Hammis Associates (GHA), an award-winning, internationally recognized pioneer in the field of customized employment services for people with disabilities. Miss Foster Williams’ diverse cultural and employment background from real estate, banking and finance to public services reflects on how determined she is in making a difference in the American family structure, as well as ending poverty and putting a stop to inequality and the displacement of the father figure out the home.