Sep 30, 2021 Susan L. Taylor founder and CEO of the National Cares Mentoring Movement and Dr. Monique Morris, CEO of Grantmakers for Girls of Color, joined me to discuss the importance of mentoring young Black girls at the individual level and at the community level to provide the proper foundation for them to succeed….
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New Funding Partnership to Address Severe Underinvestment in Indigenous Girls
Aug 17, 2021 In its inaugural slate of grants, New Songs Rising will invest over $500,000 in eight organizations serving Indigenous girls and women. The grants will range in size from $30,000 to $50,000 and New Songs Rising is just getting started, with another round of funding on the way later this year. READ MORE
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 MoreWNYC: The Takeaway, Closing the Philanthropy Gap
Jun 21, 2021 The needs of Black girls and women have long been ignored by the philanthropy world. In 2017, less than 1 percent of the $67 billion foundation contributions went to organizations focused on women and girls of color. That’s according to a report from the Ms. Foundation for Women. Just $15 million went…
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 MoreNew York Times: ‘More Than Just Tragic’: Ma’Khia Bryant and the Burden of Black Girlhood
To unpack these issues, In Her Words caught up with Dr. Jamilia Blake, a co-author of the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality report and a psychology professor at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Monique Morris, president and chief executive of Grantmakers for Girls of Color and author of the book “Pushout: The Criminalization…
Read MoreMSNBC American Voices: You see a lot of people doing acrobatics to show why Ma’Khia deserved to die, not why she deserved to live’
The fatal police shooting of 16-year-old Ma’Khia Bryant is sparking demands for accountability and igniting conversation about how race and gender played a role in the way law enforcement interacted with her. Dr. Monique W. Morris, President and CEO of “Grantmakers for Girls of Color” and Author of “PUSHOUT: The Criminalization of Black Girls in…
Read MoreGirls of Color play an important role in Women’s History
Girls and gender-expansive youth of color continue to be at the forefront of social justice movements and serve as examples for us all. (Photo screenshot of CNN’s History Refocused) Recognizing the contributions of girls of color International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month offer an opportunity to recognize the unique contributions that girls…
Read MoreNew York Times: To My Daughter, With Love
Police violence, disproportionate student discipline rates, and excessive criminalization are equally experienced by Black children regardless of gender, but recent reports and initiatives like Black Girl Freedom Fund, which are founded and led by Black women, reveal that girls remain particularly overlooked and underprotected. Co-founder Monique Morris, who also leads the philanthropic organization Grantmakers…
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