Anthony Evans, President and CEO

Anthony Evans has fought tirelessly to reduce health disparities, foreclosure, homelessness and black on black crime as well as promote financial literacy and help preserve environmental justice across the country.

In 2005 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Anthony Evans and the NBCI mobilized over 15,000 volunteers to serve in the disaster relief effort. These volunteers came from NBCI member and sister churches. The volunteers came from many ethnic backgrounds, illustrating NBCI’s policy of an interfaith and interracial approach to solving social problems. NBCI churches, along with other minority churches across the country, helped to raise more than $1 billion in cash and social services.

In 1989, Anthony Evans publicly showed the ferventness of his convictions when he was arrested during a protest in front of the South African embassy until the end of minority rule and the freeing of Nelson Mandela. He helped continue that protest for nearly two years.

In July 2006, Anthony Evans participated in a massive protest outside the Sudanese embassy to denounce the country’s role in the genocide of its African citizens. While still a college student, Anthony Evans mobilized local colleges in Vermont to donate $15,000 to the investigation of the Atlanta child killings in the early eighties.

A native of Savanna, Ga., Anthony Evans earned a Bachelor’s degree in Religion in 1981 from Middlebury College, Vermont. Anthony Evans was ordained in 1982 and went on to earn a Master’s in Divinity in 1988 from Howard University School of Divinity.

He became NBCI’s president in 1992 and continues to work on behalf of social and economic justice issues. He leads a coalition of 34,000 churches across the country fighting against health disparities, promoting financial literacy, protecting babies from abuse and neglect, and helping to preserve the environment.

Anthony Evans has a clear understanding of how public policy affects and determines the impact of these issues in which the black church fights for and against. He is determined to preserve the moral authority of the black church’s voice in the public square.

Under the leadership of a founding minister and president, Anthony Evans through NBCI uses a powerful national network of 16,000 African American and Latino member churches and 18,000 sister churches to eradicate racial discrepancies in healthcare, education and housing. NBCI also works to preserve the environment.

The NBCI network is actively engaged in programs and activities in five core initiatives:

Health & Wellness
NBCI creates and distributes Health Notes, brochures that explain complex health issues in a medically sound and substantive manner, but uses simplified language to aid understanding.

Over 700,000 brochures have been published and distributed on the following topics: Depression, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Diabetes, Breast Cancer, Childhood Obesity and Understanding Diet Management, accredited substance abuse and prevention programs and emergency shelter programs.

Technology Information Literacy The Digital Divide
In partnership with the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), NBCI used its network to distribute information about the national Digital TV transition. DTV carries the potential of leaving behind large groups of people, including persons with disabilities, seniors, residents in rural communities and racial minorities. About 3.5 million applications for the federal government’s converter box coupon program were distributed among at-risk communities nationwide.

Foreclosure Prevention Campaign – Help for Homeowners
In February 2008, NBCI partnered with the Mortgage Bankers Association and Fannie Mae to launch its Foreclosure Prevention Campaign. NBCI hosted seminars, created and distributed a step-by-step guide, the Foreclosure Prevention Guide to help congregants and members of the public identify resources in the housing industry designed to help homeowners survive economic difficulty and navigate the turbulent housing market.

The Baby Fund – (www.BabyFund.info)
The Fund provides financial assistance on an emergency basis and offers longterm educational assistance through faithbased organizations that will provide comprehensive child development classes to parents who need it.

Environmental
NBCI promotes understanding of environmental issues and plans to partner with national environmental organizations to create green facilities throughout our faith communities. NBCI has a special emphasis on teaching our children the theological tenants of protecting and preserving the environment.