Around the world, black girls are being pushed out of schools because of policies that target them for punishment, says author and social justice scholar Monique W. Morris. The result: countless girls are forced into unsafe futures with restricted opportunities. How can we put an end to this crisis? In an impassioned talk, Morris uncovers…
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What We’ve Been Up To
We’ve been busy. Our mission and our calling is to grow Grantmakers for Girls of Color as a philanthropic home to cultivate investments and philanthropic resources so that all girls of color can achieve equity and justice. Given the breadth of everything our girls are facing, and how much we need to support their wisdom…
Read MoreYouth Today, Maheen Kaleem is New Deputy Director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color
Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC) recently announced Maheen Kaleem as its new deputy director. Kaleem arrives at G4GC from the NoVo Foundation, where she worked as a program officer leading the foundation’s efforts to curb violence against girls and women. She managed a grantmaking portfolio focused on ending commercial sexual exploitation and spearheaded the…
Read MoreInside Philanthropy: Staffing Up and Moving Money, Grantmakers for Girls of Color Charts a New Course
Inside Philanthropy, July 15, 2010. Girls of color face a variety of hurdles in the United States and around the world, but they receive a minuscule portion of philanthropic support—recently found to be less than 1%. Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC) aims to remedy this imbalance. The five-year-old philanthropic network and resource recently…
Read MoreRSVP: How Philanthropy Can Address Anti-Black Racism and Bias with an Intersectional Lens, Thur, July 16, 2020, at 1 PM PT/ 4 PM ET
~~~REWATCH THE FULL LIVE CHAT HERE~~~ Grantmakers for Girls of Color and the Ms. Foundation for Women invite you to join a funders briefing: WHAT: A funder briefing on the need for intersectional approaches in philanthropic efforts to address anti-Black racism and bias. WHEN: Thursday, July 16, 2020, at 1 PM PT/ 4…
Read MoreForbes, Why Racial Justice Matters In Covid-19 Responses
Grantmakers for Girls of Color has been convening funders to take an intersectional lens to grantmaking, particularly focused on race and gender, since 2015. Amid the pandemic, they launched a $1 million fund, as their first grantmaking effort as a newly independent entity. “In April, we had a virtual convening to hear what the emergency…
Read MoreEssence: COVID-19 Highlights The Harsh Reality Facing Black Girls, Girls Of Color (OpEd by Monique W. Morris, , Ed.D.)
By Monique W. Morris, , Ed.D., Published in ESSENCE, May 19, 2020 NOW IS THE TIME TO RE-EXAMINE OUR HEALTH CARE AND HEALING SYSTEMS TO ENSURE THAT THOSE MOST VULNERABLE TO MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISTRESS ARE ABLE TO ACCESS THE CARE THEY NEED. Skylar Herbert, 5, liked to jump in her mother’s arms…
Read MoreCOLORLINES: Grantmakers for Girls of Color Offers Youth $1 Million in Funding
“The Love is Healing fund seeks to support coalitions and organizations that have been fighting historical inequities and the marginalization of girls of color well before COVID-19,” says executive director, Monique W. Morris. To address COVID-19’s impact on “girls, fem(mes), and nonbinary/gender expansive youth of color,” Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC) recently launched a…
Read MoreLA Progressive: Black Women, Sexual Violence, and Covid
“This month is National Poetry Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a time of reckoning for and celebration of survivors, living and ancestral, crossing this bridge between starshine and clay, in COVID-19’s shadow. Years ago, during casual conversation, Wren (named changed), a now deceased older relative of mine, and contemporary of Clifton’s, disclosed that she…
Read MoreInside Philanthropy: Women Face Amplified Risks in the Pandemic. Funders Are Responding
“Many women face multiple challenges during the pandemic, including increased family responsibilities, domestic abuse, job loss, poverty, and risk of illness in frontline jobs. Women are carrying out essential work like nursing, food service, child care or cleaning without adequate protective equipment, paid leave or healthcare. And women are taking on even more of society’s…
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