Marley Dias Talks About What Freedom For Black Girls Means To Her February 10, 2022 The author and activist will be a panelist for Black Girl Freedom Week 2022. “Black Girl Freedom Week is really about making sure we spread the gratitude and curiosity about social justice,” she said to Girls United. Dias began #1000BlackGirlBooks,…
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Ms Magazine: Black Girl Freedom Fund Puts Teens in the Driver Seat
Oct 5, 2021 The Black Girl Freedom Fund is an initiative under the Grantmakers for Girls of Color, an organization that puts minority women and disadvantaged youth in grantmaking and philanthropic spaces. A former youth community organizer in Philadelphia, Kyndall Osibodu, co-facilitator of the Black Girl Freedom Fund Youth Advisory Board, said the fund disrupts…
Read MoreInside Philanthropy: How the Black Girl Freedom Fund Is Allowing Young People to Call the Shots
Jul 14, 2021 When the Black Girl Freedom Fund made its very first round of grants, the fund relied on the experts: Black girls and Black gender-expansive youth. An advisory committee of seven young people ages 13 to 17 worked with fund staff to select an array of grantee organizations from across the country. It’s…
Read MorePhilanthropy Women: Announcing the Black Girl Freedom Fund’s First Six Grantees
“We affirm that Black girls are sacred, and are deserving of love and abundant resources to heal, grow, and thrive,” says Dr. Monique W. Morris, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Girls of Color, and cofounder of the #1Billion4BlackGirls Campaign. “Black girls present some of the boldest, wisest, most creative articulations of justice in our…
Read MoreEssence: Black Girl Freedom Fund Focuses First Round Grants to Organizations Serving Black Girls Across the U.S.
Who runs the world? Girls. Now, they’re getting a little more help. The Black Girl Freedom Fund, an initiative of Grantmakers for Girls of Color, has announced its first grant recipients. Guided by an advisory committee of seven Black girls and Black gender-expansive youth between the ages of 13-17 years old, the first round of…
Read MoreMSNBC American Voices: Celebrating the First Ever Black Girl Freedom Week
Actress and #BlackAF executive producer Rashida Jones joins Dr. Monique Morris, executive director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color and co-founder of the Black Girl Freedom Fund, in celebrating the first-ever Black Girl Freedom Week. The event is part of the #1Billion4BlackGirls campaign, launched to invest in Black girls’ leadership and ensure their thriving future….
Read MoreThe Root: Rashida Jones, Naomi Wadler and. Rep. Ayanna Pressley Kick Off Inaugural Black Girl Freedom Week
“Black Girl Freedom Week is a dedicated time and place to nourish and foster community and belonging for girls who have few spaces to strengthen their identity as leaders, change-makers and visionaries,” says Dr. Morris, executive director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color. “We launched Black Girl Freedom Fund because we know that investing in…
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