Love fuels opportunity. We amplify the rest.
The Kodjoe Family Foundation invests in the potential of Black youth and the diaspora, one pillar at a time: Love All's academic pipeline, Live All's wellness movement, Lift All's economic sovereignty, and Full Circle's reconnection to the continent. Partnership. Amplification.
Our Mission
We envision a world where love finds opportunity, where people of color rise to their full potential, and where Africa's story is defined not by need but by strength and creativity.
Stories
This Month: Back Home, Building Toward What’s Next
Tuesdays with Junior | Monthly Recap | July 2026 July is Junior…
GymWrap × Kodjoe Family Foundation: How Nicole Ari Parker Is Using a Fitness Brand to Fund the Movement
LIFT ALL × GymWrap In 2011, Nicole Ari Parker had a simple…
The Advisory Side Should Look Like Us
Nicole Ari Parker's Milken Institute panel on the feminization of wealth wasn't…
August: The Ministers of Stillness
We were taught rest was earned only after the fight was won.…
Years as a 501(c)(3)
LOVE ALL Scholars
Children reached through our TRCF partnership
Girls reached through our GRTC partnership
Our Pillars
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Everything from every pillar, most recent first.
Love All
Academic equity through scholarship, mentorship, and the Rwanda-to-Atlanta pipeline.
Learn more →Live All
Holistic wellness -- Motivation Monday and the movement toward whole-person health.
Learn more →Full Circle
Connecting the diaspora and the continent -- Ghana, Rwanda, and collective impact.
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We were taught rest was earned only after the fight was won. August's visionaries knew better: stillness was never a…
Tuesdays with Junior | Monthly Recap | July 2026 July is Junior settling into a version of home he hasn't…
At the Milken Institute's MEA Summit in Abu Dhabi, on a panel called "Creative Currency," Boris Kodjoe stood alongside investors…
Nicole Ari Parker's Milken Institute panel on the feminization of wealth wasn't only about women controlling more assets than ever…
In 2019, Full Circle Africa's own campaign helped generate a wave of global attention that, according to Boris Kodjoe's official…
Before Nicole Ari Parker ever stood on a Milken Institute stage talking about the feminization of wealth, she grew up…
Boris Kodjoe has spent three years standing in the same room at the Milken Institute's Global Conference, alongside investors, fund…
Nicole Ari Parker has heard no before. Years on stage and screen taught her how to take a rejection and…
LOVE ALL scholar, Los Angeles. Incoming Howard University D1 tennis, Fall 2026.
Original LOVE ALL scholar. Kigali, Rwanda to Mouratoglou Academy to Keiser University, Florida.
Inaugural LOVE ALL scholar. First scholarship in Mouratoglou Academy's 27-year history.
Original LOVE ALL scholar. Kigali, Rwanda to Mouratoglou Academy to Keiser University, Florida.
Inaugural LOVE ALL scholar. First scholarship in Mouratoglou Academy's 27-year history.
LOVE ALL scholar, Los Angeles. Incoming Howard University D1 tennis, Fall 2026.
Tuesdays with Junior | Monthly Recap | June 2026 June is the month Junior's story turned. Everything before it was…
In 2023, Joseline Umulisa launched the Tennis Rwanda Children’s Foundation (TRCF) with a single mission: to prove that a tennis…
LOVE ALL × Girls Rule the Court A 4th grader in Baltimore picks up a tennis racket for the first…
Tuesdays with Junior | Monthly Recap | May 2026 May is the month Junior's two full time jobs, tennis and…
Tuesdays with Junior | Monthly Recap | April 2026 April kept Junior on the same climb he started in March,…
Tuesdays with Junior | Monthly Recap | March 2026 March is when Junior's story stopped being about adjustment and started…
Before Nicole Ari Parker ever stood on a Milken Institute stage talking about the feminization of wealth, she grew up…
Nicole Ari Parker has heard no before. Years on stage and screen taught her how to take a rejection and…
Nobody told me the door was open. That’s how Boris Kodjoe describes it. Not a moment of revelation, not a…
January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed. June 19, 1865. Texas heard about it. Two years. Six months. Nineteen…
On June 1, 2026, Nicole Ari Parker attended the National Personal Finance Challenge at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.…
This is far from a ceremonial role. It is a strategic alignment of purpose, happening exactly when it is needed…
CEE is the only KFF partner built into both LOVE ALL and LIFT ALL — bringing financial literacy training to…
Gymwrap by Nicole Ari Parker is a patented workout head wrap solving one real barrier to showing up for your…
At the Milken Institute's MEA Summit in Abu Dhabi, on a panel called "Creative Currency," Boris Kodjoe stood alongside investors…
In 2019, Full Circle Africa's own campaign helped generate a wave of global attention that, according to Boris Kodjoe's official…
Boris Kodjoe has spent three years standing in the same room at the Milken Institute's Global Conference, alongside investors, fund…
My son was six years old when he put it into words. We were in Ghana, and he said it…
A lot of African-Americans experience it for the first time when they set foot on the continent: a true sense…
The diaspora is the third biggest country in the world after China and India. 600 million people. Boris put it…
The average return on foreign direct investment in Africa is 11.4%. The global average is 7%. Boris said it plainly:…
We were taught the scattering was the tragedy: that to be spread across continents was to be cut from the…
Eighteen girls are about to find out where they come from. And they are going to find out in Ghana.…
We have often been told that space is neutral — that a street is just a path and a building…
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