Gwen Braxton, a leader of the NBWHP's New York City chapter noted that often embedding cultural competency in programming was at odds with private foundation and government grant applications. Often these applications asked for measures of immediate and measurable impact which would not be easily discerned when you are creating programming that uniquely fits the needs of each community. Also, culturally competent programming requires that empowering the community which often does not neatly fit into the requirements of having a distinct organizational leader serving as the contact person between the program and the grant agency.