Serving 10,000+ individuals through direct services, community care, and liberation-centered programs since 2020.

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The McKenzie Project, Inc. is a pioneering Black trans-led organization based in South Florida and uniquely positioned as one of the only Black trans-led organizations serving Miami-Dade and surrounding counties.

We center black and brown high impacted and gender-expansive individuals ages 14–25, while also providing programming for adults, families, and chosen families. Our work focuses on communities most impacted by homelessness, family separation, survival sex work, HIV, economic exclusion, and lack of access to affirming education and employment. Through creative arts advocacy, workforce development, entrepreneurship training, housing support, HIV awareness, and community care, we transform crisis into opportunity and survival into leadership.

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MISSION: To creates pathways for high impacted, and gender-expansive people to thrive through housing stability, education, entrepreneurship, creative arts, HIV awareness, and community-led care. We build inclusive spaces where our community can live, learn, heal, lead, and contribute to a future rooted in joy and liberation.

VISION: We envision where high impacted people have the housing, healthcare, income, safety, and community support needed to live freely. Our vision is to eliminate barriers to joy and liberation by ending homelessness, reducing reliance on survival economies, advancing HIV justice, and building lasting pathways to self-sufficiency and prosperity.

Last year, The McKenzie Project:

Served 2,000+ Black LGBTQ+ individuals
Provided housing support and stabilization services
Delivered food, clothing, and basic needs to community members in crisis
Connected individuals to HIV care, mental health support, and healthcare navigation
Paid stipends and created income opportunities for youth and young adults
Distributed disaster preparedness throughout the entire state of Florida