Opportunities for You and Your Organizations GRANTS I Be Black Girl Gives Grant | Apply by April 19 Funding for organizations and projects led by and serving underserved communities, including but not limited to Black women, femmes, and girls in Omaha, Nebraska. Do not need to be affiliated with a 501(c)(3). Open Call for Alaska…
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Opportunities for You and Your Organizations GRANTS Youth Climate Justice Fund | Deadline March 1 Grants of up to $40,000 to support grassroots youth-led climate and socio-environmental movements, initiatives, and solutions. Liberation Ventures | Deadline March 3 Request for proposals for narrative change projects focused on reparations. Grants range from $10,000 to $50,000. Social Justice…
Read More2025 Year-End Events & Opportunities, Community Resources
Girls Unlimited Book Tour đź“–đź’« G4GC President/CEO Dr. Monique Couvson is on the road with her new book, Girls, Unlimited: How to Invest in Our Daughters with More than Money. She spoke to incredible youth advocates like Tarana Burke and Fatima Goss Graves about how and why we need to invest in the unlimited potential…
Read More2025 Year-End Words of Wisdom and Team Accolades
âśą Words of Wisdom âśą From Our Archives: Centering Black women-led funds to lead social justice efforts Dr. Monique Couvson, president and CEO of G4GC, and Tynesha McHarris, founder and principal at Black Harvest and co-founder of Black Feminist Fund, remind us of the power in centering Black women-led funds to lead social justice efforts….
Read More2025 Year-End Reflections and Updates
Dear G4GC Community, As we soon close out this transformative year, we’re filled with gratitude for the fierce, brilliant youth leaders who continue to show us what liberation looks like in action. At G4GC, we believe the path forward is paved by those who are positively impacting our future – girls and gender-expansive youth of…
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Dear G4GC Community, April marks five years since I stepped in as the inaugural CEO for G4GC. I find myself reflecting on all that we have achieved and the powerful partnerships and relationships we have cultivated in that time. We’ve not just built an organization that nurtures ecosystems supporting our youth, we’ve ignited a movement…
Read MoreMonique Couvson Wants Society to Better Understand Black Girls
We are thrilled to share that G4GC President/CEO Dr. Monique Couvson is featured on TIME’s 2025 list of ‘The Closers’! A list of Black leaders working to end the racial equity gap. In the TIME article with the headline ‘Monique Couvson Wants Society to Better Understand Black Girls,’ she expresses the importance of young people…
Read MoreUnveiling of Groundbreaking GAO Report on Pushout of Black Girls in Schools
(Image, from left to right: Speaker-Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02), Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, Dr. Monique Couvson, G4GC President & CEO and author of “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Rebecca Amadi, Federal Policy Manager at GLSEN., Fatima Goss…
Read MoreFall 2024 Newsletter
Dear G4GC Community, As we celebrate International Day of the Girl today and transition into the fall season, we are grateful for the solidarity and grace our community has gifted to us, especially during the series of grantee meetings we held recently to discuss how to navigate retrenchments in funding for racial and gender justice. Despite the…
Read MoreYouth Are Protecting Our Democracy. We Need to Invest in Them.
PUBLISHED 8/27/2024 by Maheen Kaleem During a gathering of over 100 girl-led and girl-serving organizations in California hosted by Alliance for Girls, a 17-year-old high school journalist described the walkouts at local high schools after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade: “Just because we can’t vote yet doesn’t mean we don’t care!” she exclaimed….
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