Future Black Female: Breaking Barriers, Building Legacies

Kirti Khanzode

Product #:W46949

Supplier:Ivey

Discipline:Entrepreneurship, Organizational Behaviour/Leadership

Setting:Canada, 2025

Details:Case (PDF) • 17 pages • 2026-04-16

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Future Black Female (FBF) was a St. Catharines, Ontario–based charity founded in 2019 by Dr. Tapo Chimbganda to empower Black girls aged 16 to 22 years. In five years, FBF had built programs and created an impact in the community, despite the challenges of limited resources, stereotypes, and competition for grants with other social service organizations. It secured registered charity status in 2024, yet its revenue remained heavily dependent on grants and vulnerable to external shifts in the funding landscape. As the founding executive director, Chimbganda’s dilemma was how to ensure long-term financial sustainability for the organization, while complying with Canadian regulations for operating as a registered charity and staying true to FBF’s mission, vision, and values.

Learning Objectives

This case can be used in courses on leadership, organizational behaviour, gender and diversity, corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, and social innovation at graduate and undergraduate levels in business programs. After working through the case and assignment questions, students will be able to do the following:

Analyze how the intersection of race and gender shapes the leadership experiences and challenges of Black women.
Evaluate sustainable strategies for charitable organizations facing funding volatility.
Critically analyze how leadership in charitable organizations compares to leadership in for-profit organizations, using established leadership theories and frameworks to assess similarities and differences.