Limited VolunteerTo fully appreciate NBUF’s future opportunities, it is important to understand its past. In 1968, a group of Black American activists, led by Walter Bremond who worked as a Program Officer for Cummins Engine Foundation, created the Brotherhood Crusade in Los Angeles, California. The purpose of the new organization was to promote charitable fundraising in the black community for black empowerment and social change. Inspired by the civil rights and social change movements of the era, the mission of the Brotherhood Crusade was to create a systematic and strategic model for black fund-raising and self-help. The Brotherhood built on the long history of giving to charitable causes inherent to the history of survival in the Black American community.