The 100 Black Men of Austin see economic empowerment as necessary to keeping the African American community in Austin healthy and influential. The 100 defines economic empowerment as the ability to be self-determined in creating dreams, pursuing them and ultimately perpetuating them by establishing the mechanisms to sustain generational wealth. In Austin, we seek to create and maintain initiatives that promote generational economic self-sufficiency through financial literacy, family wealth building and entrepreneurship. We strive to give Austin’s African American community a powerful voice as Austin continues to grow.