Grantmakers for Girls of Color

Charlotte to host ‘Investing in Girls of Color’ convention

carissa — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:33:00 +0000

A four-day convention in Charlotte aims to outline ways to support minority groups and those impacted by sexual violence.

Nonprofit leaders and community advocates will gather for the four-day national Investing in Girls of Color convention starting Tuesday. The gathering aims to highlight ways to provide holistic support for young girls and those who are gender expansive.

Dr. Monique Couvson is the president of Grant Makers for Girls of Color. Couvson says it’s critical that there are avenues for girls of color.

“They want career paths that make sense for them, but they also just want joy and safety and love in their communities,” Couvson said.

Since its conception in 2020, Couvson said the philanthropic group has given out about $33 million to more than 400 organizations that aim to support girls of color. The national convention is expected to include more than a dozen breakout sessions, including ones that will focus on empowering girls.

As part of the convention, community members can also expect to hear from Tarana Burke, who founded the Me Too movement, which supports survivors of sexual violence.

Couvson says Burke initiatives enable them to highlight ways to continue to support those impacted by sexual violence.

“Protecting the bodies of girls is a critical part of this work that we do to resource girls to think about how girls’ bodies are safe,” Couvson said. “But also, how their emotional and social safety is something that requires our specific interrogation and engagement.”

Read and listen to the story by Elvis Menayese on wfae.org

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Conference supporting girls and gender-expansive youth

carissa — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:06:39 +0000

Dr. Monique Couvson, President and CEO of G4GC, spoke with WCNC Charlotte to share the goals of her organization, and what organizers want participants to know.

Watch the video on wcnc.com.

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The Brief Brief #2

carissa — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

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 Native Food Sovereignty Projects | Apply by April 20

One-time grants from $1,000 to $20,000 for Alaska Native organizations, and organizations supporting Alaska Native peoples.

Building Bridges Documentary Fund | Apply by April 26

For independent documentary shorts, features, and series exploring the U.S. Muslim experience, with support for filmmakers at different stages of their careers, from emerging voices to established storytellers.

2026–2027 Rooted + Relational Community Micro-Grant | Apply by April 30

Up to 12 grants of up to $5,000 will support community-based projects led by organizers, artists, creatives, writers, agricultural workers, activists and cultural workers in Puerto Rico and across the United States and its territories.

Self-Defense Grants for MMIWGR Day | Apply by April 30

Xinachtli Comadre National Colectiva is offering $500 mini grants to support self-defense workshops for Indigenous girls and gender-expansive youth between May 5–31, 2026, in honor of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives Awareness Day.

FELLOWSHIPS / SKILL BUILDING

Marshal of Joy Ambassador Corps | Rolling

A year-long paid residency for Black Trans organizers, cultural workers, and public truth tellers hosted by the Marsha P. Johnson Institute.

2026 Giniw Collective Fellowship | Rolling

A three- to four-week fellowship with the Giniw Collective—a women- and two-spirit-led movement founded to protect Mother Earth, defend the sacred, and live in balance.

Sovereign Futures Talent Network | Apply by April 12

A national talent network supporting organizers, communicators, strategists, cultural or civil society workers, and policy practitioners whose work is vital to Indigenous sovereignty and justice.

Data Institute | Apply by April 19

A free two-week training program teaching participants how to work with data as a journalist, apply design principles and layout to charts or stories, and code interactive projects.

A New Flank of Generational Power: Youth Organizing in the Current Era | Happening April 22

Combining data-based findings from Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing’s 2025 field scan with direct testimony and engagement from field practitioners, this four-part virtual series is designed to help funders understand the fundamentals of youth organizing in the current era.

Hispanics in Philanthropy’s Líderes Fellowship | Apply by May 31

Fellowship cultivates a diverse group of mid-career Latines in philanthropy and nonprofits to promote systemic. For leaders from Arizona, Colorado, Navajo Nation, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, and Utah.

Career Opportunities

Below are job openings with upcoming deadline

Director of Programming, Daughters Beyond Incarceration | Louisiana | Rolling

Summer Camp Lead Teacher, Girl Forward | Texas | Rolling

Co-Executive Director, We Testify | Remote | Apply by April 13

Senior Membership and Convenings Officer, Funders for LGBTQ Issues | Remote | Apply by April 14

IT Support Specialist / Service Desk, Ms. Foundation for Women | New York | Apply by April 15

Infrastructure Director, CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities | New York | Apply by April 15

Program Associate, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation | California | Apply by May 4

Browse our collection of job boards

Youth Opportunities

FELLOWSHIPS / SKILL BUILDING

Camp Diva Leadership Academy | Rolling

A summer leadership camp where Black girls build confidence, learn new skills, and grow into leaders through fun, cultural, and educational experiences. Spots still available for rising 6th and 9th graders.

2026 EmpowHer Social Justice STEAM Camp | Apply by April 18

A free five-week summer camp designed to empower girls in Los Angeles County, ages 11-18, to explore how STEAM can drive positive change to address environmental justice issues.

The National Museum of the American Latino | Apply by April 24

A nationally recognized program for rising high school seniors to foster the next generation of community-conscious leaders in the arts, sciences, and humanities via the Smithsonian Institution and its resources.

COP31 Fellowship Program | Apply by April 30

This fellowship is aimed at young people between the ages of 15 and 30 who are working to address the climate crisis.

Root and Bloom Fellowship | Apply by May 6

The Root and Bloom Fellowship is an advocacy and power-building educational opportunity for farmers across the country, where fellows dive deep into the roots of federal agriculture policy and uncover how it shapes the landscape for young and BIPOC farmers.

GRANTS

It Gets Better: Changemakers Grant | Apply by May 3

Grants of $5,000 or $10,000 for LGBTQ+ youth-led projects. Past projects include gender-affirming closets, queer-inclusive arts programs, and school wellness initiatives.

EVENT

Black Girl Showcase | Virginia | Happening May 2

A free community event hosted by Girls For A Change to celebrates and uplifts Black girls, especially those in grades 1–8.

Learnings

READING

“What would the world look, feel, and sound like if it supported the dreams, power, and resistance of girls and young feminists?” by the Narrative Revolution Fellowship

LISTENING

“Movement Memos,” a Truthout podcast about organizing, solidarity, and the work of making change hosted by Premilla Nadasen

Pockets of Joy

Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States.

Fly Girl Institute’s “Letters for Our Black Girl”

To be known is to be loved

Two girls yapping

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Investing in Girls

carissa — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:31:00 +0000

Dr. Monique Couvson and Dominique Johnson speak with Fox 8 Live news about the importance of investing in girls and how to do that.

Watch the full clip on fox8live.com.

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North Omaha event highlights women’s empowerment during Women’s History Month

carissa — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:27:19 +0000

An event in North Omaha celebrated Women’s History Month by focusing on empowering women from all backgrounds.

Identity Prep, Nebraska’s first Black-founded state-approved school, hosted the “Investing in Our Girls” event at the Benson Theatre.

Dr. Monique Couvson, an author whose work has impacted the lives of young women in North Omaha, spoke about how girls can thrive despite challenges in their lives.

“This is an opportunity for me to be in conversation with anyone who picks up the book about the sphere of influence they have and the ways that they can invest in the girls in their lives,” Couvson said.

Couvson hopes that through her new book, it will create a future where every girl has the opportunity to reach her full potential.

See the full clip of Dr. Couvson and story by McKenzy Parsons on ketv.com

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The Brief Brief

carissa — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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 Fund Northwest | Deadline March 9

One-year grant of $5,000 for new or developing community organizing (three years or less) in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and/or Wyoming.

Weyerhaeuser Family Foundation | Opens April 1

The Youth Initiative funds direct service programs supporting youth ages 14–21 impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), with the average 2025 award totaling $30,000

Creative Capital | Deadline April 2

Seeking proposals from individual artists for new artistic works in the Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Film, and Literature. Unrestricted project grants of up to $50,000 to create new work.

FELLOWSHIPS / SKILL BUILDING

Youth Justice Leadership Institute by National Youth Justice Network | Deadline February 23

A six-month fellowship for organizers, healers, and creatives committed to dismantling harmful systems and building community-based care. Fellows also join a lifelong alumni network that provides ongoing support, resources, and connections.

Youth Mental Health First Aid by KLBRI Institute | Happening March 3

Designed to caring adults how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. KLBRI specialize in Tribal and Indigenous Communities. The curriculum also shares how to best support systems-impacted and immigrant communities.

Rooting in Global Solidarity & Transnational Organizing by Thousand Currents’ Center for Transforming Philanthropy | Happening March 3-12

A 4-part virtual series on why building transnational solidarity and grounding in internationalism is essential. Hear from movement and philanthropic leaders around the world on how they have continued to advance their visions under challenging conditions.

The Victory Empowerment Fellowship by LGBTQ+ Victory Institute | Deadline March 4

A six-month fellowship for LGBTQ+ leaders of color and/or transgender leaders to join a strong cohort of movement leaders from across the country while expanding their campaign skills and policy-making power.

Women Organizing for Justice & Opportunity (WOJO) by A New Way of Life Reentry Project | Deadline March 31

A six-month training program for formerly incarcerated women to sharpen their social justice leadership skills. Participants must live in Los Angeles County.

Trans-Inclusive Grantmaking Training: Mobilizing for Trans Futures by Global Philanthropy Project | Happening April 9-10

For grantmakers from philanthropic institutions committed to advancing trans-inclusive funding practices. This training will provide an opportunity for peer education and open dialogue among funders to ask questions, discuss challenges, and receive expert guidance on providing intersectional support to trans communities.

EVENTS

2026 National Convening by G4GC | Happening May 12-15

G4GC believes in the power of coming together. Join our in-person convening as we create intentional space for funders and philanthropic leaders to ground ourselves in what matters most—the leadership, joy, and brilliance of young people.

Career Opportunities

Below are job openings with upcoming deadline

Finance & Operations Consultant, Our Collective Practice | Remote | Apply by February 23

Director of Development, Borealis Philanthropy | Remote | Apply by February 28

Legal Resources Associate, Council on Foundations | Remote | Apply by March 1

Director of Finance & Operations, AAPIP | Remote | Apply by March 4

Vice President of Programs, AAPIP | Remote | Apply by March 31

Browse our collection of job boards

Youth Opportunities

FELLOWSHIPS / SKILL BUILDING

Eagle Feather Fellows for Thriving Women by Seventh Generation Fund | Deadline March 2

For young Native women to build community, expand their knowledge, skills, and capacity, as well as empower them as future leaders. Eligible applicants: Indigenous-identified young women aged 18-24 and enrolled in post-secondary education or a traditional learning system

Reel Innovators by Sisters in Cinema | Deadline March 6

This paid fellowship program aims to support Black women and gender-expansive media makers aged 18 to 24. Participants will have the opportunity to screen their work, receive marketing and Q&A training, and raise their visibility as filmmakers.

Youth Street Medic Cohort – Community Liberation Programs | Deadline March 15

A 20-hour street medic training course and mentorship program in April through July where youth (ages 16 to 23) can learn essential skills under the guidance of experienced street medic.

Community Safety Through Youth Power Fellowship by All Youth Are Sacred (CA) | Deadline March 23

A paid, 15 hours a week, 6-month professional development program for youth organizers and leaders taking the lead on narrative power building within youth justice.

EVENTS

Black Girl Leadership Retreat by Codeswitch | Happening February 28

A healing and empowering retreat that centers the experiences of Black girls and women while fostering intergenerational connection.

Learnings

READINGS

5 Ways to Support Undocumented and First Gen Youth by Girls Write Now

Girls Write Now outlines five practical ways to support and empower undocumented and first-generation youth by building trust, understanding rights, fostering belonging, and connecting them with resources and community.

Power In Our Truth Report Series by Justice + Joy National Collaborative

The Power In Our Truth is a series of reports sharing insights from an open-ended survey of girls and gender-expansive young people of color on social issues that are important to them, their experience as a young person and the changes they would like to see from decision-makers.

Holding the Line: Black-Led Nonprofits and Race-Explicit Work Amid Backlash Report by ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities

A report from ABFE and Candid examining how Black-led nonprofits navigate race-related conversations with funders, drawing on surveys of 1,113 nonprofits and interviews with 24 Black-led leaders.

WATCHING

Walking Between Two Worlds: The Urban Indigenous Youth Experience Film by MAPS Media

A group of Montana youth became national award-winning filmmakers after their documentary, detailing the lives of Indigenous youth in Billings, won the National Student Production Award for Non-Fiction – Long Form from 1,700 entries.

Pockets of Joy

Making history in Black History Month, Laila Edwards becomes the first Black woman to score a goal for Team USA’s ice hockey team at the Olympics.

The internet’s niece Van Van joins Sesame Street friends to celebrate natural hair and honor Black History Month

Trans News That Doesn’t Suck by KB Brookins is a weekly roundup of affirming trans news, including a new Journal of Pediatrics study showing gender-affirming care for youth is lifesaving.

Lift your spirit with this musical number, “When the World Feels Heavy, and the News Won’t Let Up,” by mother-daughter duo CJ & Cori, known for producing “Everyday Musicals.”

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A Conversation with Monique Couvson, President and CEO of G4GC

carissa — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:51:57 +0000

Dr. Monique Couvson is the president and CEO of G4GC (formerly Grantmakers for Girls of Color), a philanthropic intermediary that supports organizations and movements that center the wellbeing of girls and gender-expansive youth of color. She also cofounded the National Black Women’s Justice Institute, which seeks to dismantle pathways to criminalization and confinement and increase safety and opportunities for Black women and girls impacted by the criminal and juvenile legal systems.

Couvson’s more than three decades in the fields of education, civil rights, juvenile and social justice include roles at Mount St. Mary’s College of California, the University of San Francisco, and California State University, Sacramento. She was also an executive producer and co-writer of the documentary, “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools,” which was based on two of Couvson’s books, “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools,” and “Sing a Rhythm, Dance A Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls.” She has written several other books, including “Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century” and the graphic novel “Charisma’s Turn: A Story of Girls and Their Gifts.”

We recently connected with Couvson to discuss her latest book, “Girls, Unlimited: How to Invest in Our Daughters with More Than Money,” which looks at how and why everyone from philanthropists to parents and policymakers should invest in girls. Her book looks at several areas of investment, including increasing knowledge and awareness, dismantling the barriers to girls’ success, protecting girls from gender-based violence and supporting education and mentorship.

Read the full interview by Martha Ramirez on Inside Philanthropy.

This conversation has been edited for clarity and length.

You mentioned in your book that part of the reason why you wrote “Girls, Unlimited” was a high school student asking when you would write your own story. Can you elaborate a little on how you came to write the book and why you chose to interweave your own story into your discussion of how to support girls of color? I found it a very effective and very striking approach.

As I started to reflect on what brings me to this work — and especially the question from that student — I realized that my personal story is not as divorced from, and is actually intrinsically linked to, what drives me to lead my work professionally in this realm. This was an opportunity for me to locate myself in the work and do some reflection on the things that I have learned along the way, but also on the things that have taught me about how to show up in this moment for girls, and how we structure systems and create platforms for girls to be their full selves in this work.

I’m actually a very private person. It was a challenge to write as much as I did about my own personal story because I’ve survived a lot of systems and a lot of things. But I think it was an important part of helping people understand that women in positions of leadership don’t just appear, that there are specific things that happen in their lives, specific people who show up in their lives, to make that trajectory possible, to make their leadership plain, to create spaces for girls to practice leadership so that when they do become women who are interested in leadership, they have some experience in that domain.

For me, it was an important part of bringing people in closer so that they can hopefully do the same thing, read the book and begin to locate themselves in the work.

As a journalist, when I write about women and girls, I’ll often draw from reports that present statistics. And they’re always helpful, of course, but it’s very different to read about someone’s experiences. It puts things in a better context.

I would hope so. We know that less than 2% of philanthropic giving goes to women in this country. And we know that giving to girls of color is nearly nonexistent. Less than half a percent of philanthropic giving goes to women and girls of color around the globe. And so when we look at those numbers, we’ll say, “oh, this is really low. This is abysmal.”

But what I wanted to share in “Girls, Unlimited” is what it feels like to be in conversation with these girls, to recognize their brilliance and recognize that when we are underinvesting in that brilliance, we’re doing ourselves a grave disservice. I say in the book, a lot of times, people will see girls and think, oh girls are cute, and so we get cute money. It’s important to recognize girls are powerful, to recognize girls as transformative, to recognize girls are critical and essential people in creating the kinds of worlds we want for ourselves and our descendants.

And so the intention around the storytelling in “Girls, Unlimited” is sharing my own experiences as a girl but also thinking about the things that I learned as a mother and things that I have learned as an advocate for girls. If I had to boil it down, I do want people to see the statistics because I think the statistics are critical for us to understand the gravity of the situation, but I also want people to hear the stories of young people who are doing incredible work and who are taking deficits in their lives and transforming those into positive outcomes and transforming communities as a result.

As you noted in your book, money matters, but how can funders change their grantmaking to better support girls of color and go beyond just writing a check?

I love that question because that was the whole point of the book. Of course, money matters. Of course it does. But I wanted to start with all the things that we can do that don’t necessarily involve writing a check. That doesn’t mean that they’re not related.

Investing in girls’ knowing, and understanding that this critical capacity for girls to be able to analyze the lives that they’re living and the society that they’re living in is essential to recognizing that there are parts of intervention that philanthropy can engage in. It is critical to understand that if we prioritize protecting girls’ bodies and investing in their education and mentorship and thinking about exposing them to policies that will ultimately impact their lives, that if we understand that these are nonfinancial investments that we can make, then we align our financial investments to support the practices and capacity for organizations to do those things.

I also think it’s important for people to recognize that philanthropy comes in many different ways. People give in different ways, and the biggest thing we have to give is our time. And so it is important for philanthropy to recognize a much more expansive way of giving, such that it is also about relationship-building and trust-building.

We’ve had these kinds of conversations a bit in philanthropy around trust-based interventions or other strategies to rely more on the expertise of those who are living the experience. But what’s critical for me is for us to build relationships with people that allow us to align our actions with our funding. If we fund girls’ programs, then we should also be in relationship with them.

Yes, we have young people who are part of our decision-making structures, but we are also in routine conversation with the organizational leaders who are working directly with girls every day, and we are in direct conversation with young people and young people who identify as girls all the time. They are part of critical analyses. They are part of our strategic planning. Their comments have been part of how we approach fundraising to educate the field about the importance of working with girls. They are embedded in so much of what we do because the relationship is key. So the invitation from “Girls, Unlimited” is to grow philanthropic capacity to be more proximate to the issues affecting girls and to girls themselves.

And on the funding side, philanthropy has long been aware of and has acknowledged that girls and girls of color are vastly underfunded, and yet we’ve seen little progress. What would you say to funders to encourage them to open their pocketbooks?

We celebrated that funding to women and girls reached 2%. And it’s not that girls are not benefiting from some of the other investments that philanthropy is making, but we’re not being intentional about locating girls in those spaces, which continues to perpetuate the disparities that we see on the outcomes.

So I would say: Understand that when we are developing priorities around issues that every issue impacts girls. If your priority is around policymaking and political mobilization, locate girls in that conversation. If your funding is primarily about health and healthcare access, locate girls in that conversation. If your funding is around education, don’t just think about institutions; think about young people who are experiencing those institutions. When we name them, we consider them a priority.

That’s a lesson I learned just doing my research work, and developing my scholarship around pushout and education. It’s when we have these kinds of conversations and we begin to locate girls in the conversation, that’s when we can hold ourselves accountable to building out priorities that include girls in grantmaking.

You wrote about the retrenchment in funding for racial justice and gender justice. How do we move forward from this moment where it seems like so many people and institutions are pulling back?

I think people are pulling back out of fear, and I also think people are pulling back out of ignorance. I believe it is our responsibility at this moment to continue to educate those who are responsible for setting priorities around giving to better understand the outcomes of the investments that they make. Investing in girls, investing in girls of color, investing in people of color, investing in women are not strategies to reduce giving to those who don’t identify with those communities. These are strategies to improve the conditions for all of us. When we say “justice for all,” we are not in a competition around our humanity.

The retrenchment is something that is painful. When I write about it in the book, I’ve intentionally shared that some of the hardest conversations we had were with grantees who did not survive this retrenchment. And it was infuriating in some ways that people would want to take away a program that allows girls to dream about their futures. It’s unconscionable that we see these programs as anything other than opportunities to remedy centuries of bias. That’s all they are — opportunities for young people to dream, opportunities for young people to have access to opportunities that they have previously been left out of. It’s an intentional way to bring people in, not to exclude.

My response to the retrenchment is that we have an opportunity in front of us to think about all that we have learned from the gender-conscious interventions that we have built over the past few years in response to the intentional exclusion of women and girls. We have learned so much from our time in that space that it’s time for us to then think about how we consider supporting the things that we know are working — whether or not we call it the things that we have called it in the past — that we have lessons that we have learned from this work and that we move forward. What is most critical in this moment is to protect the work, protect the things that we know to serve all children.

If you talk to young children, they also believe in equity and justice. They also believe that everyone can win in this scenario. They’re not yet afraid of each other. And so when we talk to and engage with young people, we can reflect and mirror the values and priorities that they set for their lives, such that our grantmaking can support their visions into the future.

My hope is that this retrenchment ends, that we are able to understand now and into the future that not only are these sound investments in the future, but that building ecosystems that engage every child is how we come to a philanthropic agenda that serves every community.

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2025 Year-End Events & Opportunities, Community Resources

carissa — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:51:00 +0000

Girls Unlimited Book Tour

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 of young people.
Stay tuned to our social media accounts for her upcoming tour stops in the new year!

✹ Community Resources ✹

New collection of resources from the Girls’ Power Learning Institute!

We invite you to explore amazing booklets from the Girls’ Power Learning Institute! These booklets synthesize years of collective learning across movements on how to meaningfully document, support, and resource the strategies that drive systemic change. They are part of the institute’s ongoing effort to build narrative, knowledge, and power with and for girls and young feminists.

The collection includes:

Girls and Girlhood: Resisting, Building, and Dreaming New Worlds
Girls and Young Feminists: Sparking, Leading, and Organising Across Social Movements
Resourcing Girls and Young Feminists: Analysis of the Context, Approaches, and Practices
Shared Language Glossary: Centring Girls and Girlhood

✹ Support & Funding Opportunities ✹

Visit our Community Opportunities site page to discover fellowships, internships, grants and other resources for young people and orgs serving them. You can also keep up with our latest resource sharing as they emerge on our Instagram and LinkedIn!

William T. Grant Foundation’s Research Grants on Reducing Inequality: This program funds research aimed at reducing inequality in academic, social, behavioral, or economic outcomes for U.S. youth ages 5–25. Major grants range from $100,000 to $600,000, while smaller officers’ grants provide $25,000 to $50,000. The initiative supports descriptive and intervention studies and offers grantees capacity-building, expert connections, and collaborative learning opportunities. Learn more
Join the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium’s Wisdom Council: As Southern Black Girls prepares for upcoming grant cycles, they’re growing their Wisdom Council to help guide grantmaking with clarity, wisdom, and purpose. You can offer your lived experience and leadership to ensure that Black girls and women across the South remain at the center of every decision. Learn more
The David Prize NYC (New York): The David Prize is a celebration of New Yorkers with ideas for extraordinary change. Open to any individual working in the five boroughs, the Prize welcomes those with the vision and conviction to change our communities, our culture, and our future for good. Learn more
The Brotherhood Sister Sol (BroSis) Pedagogy of Liberation Conference (New York)
Join BroSis on January 17 for a deep dive into liberatory teaching methods at Pedagogy of Liberation! This free community event was created to reenergize educators, youth workers, and community practitioners who are passionate about youth development and transformative education. Sessions will include: Arts as Resistance, Culturally Relevant Design, Restorative Justice, Writers Collective, Environmental Justice andTheatre of the Oppressed. Learn more

✹ For Youth ✹

Center for Native American Youth – Remembering Our Sisters Fellowship
Each year, a small group of femme-identifying Native youth embark on a collective healing journey in support of our stolen relatives. In 2026, selected applicants will not only create virtual storytelling & digital art pieces that advance the MMIP movement — but will also become part of the larger CNAY Fellowship program, engage in a shared curriculum & convene in community as one. Application opened now. Learn more
Operation Restoration’s Operation Girls (New Orleans, LA)
Operation Girls (OG) is a program made just for girls ages 11-17 who have been impacted by incarceration. We’re here to give you a safe space to be yourself, connect with others girls and build a strong support system. Attendees can expect weekly “Girl Talk” workshops, fitness and wellness classes, financial literacy workshops, mentorship and sisterhood, weekend excursions and more! Learn more
Black Girls Smile: In-Person LGBTQ+ Support Group (Brooklyn, NY)
These gatherings are designed to create a sense of belonging, community, and healing, while exploring the intersection of mental health and lived experience. Their LGBTQ+ Young Adult Support Group is an affirming space for LGBTQ+ young adults to share their experiences and support one another at the intersection of identity and mental health. Learn more

Support our mission

G4GC is a philanthropic intermediary that resources organizations across the U.S. that center the wisdom and well-being of girls and gender-expansive youth of color. We welcome your support!

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2025 Year-End Words of Wisdom and Team Accolades

carissa — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:44:00 +0000

✹ Words of Wisdom ✹

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.

“We know that all social justice efforts benefit when we place value in Black girls’ and women’s lives and leadership. And we must center Black women-led funds.”
Read the full article HERE.

‘Pass the Mic Project’ Highlight Series

G4GC’s Pass the Mic Project is a narrative filmmaking project and documentary to amplify the voices of girls and gender-expansive youth of Color in research. Every few weeks, we highlight compelling excerpts from grantee partner interviews on our socials.

Recently, we featured Ana Puente Flores (former CUNY Beyond Identity participant and co-founder of Mazorca Colectiva), who discusses the importance of women and girls of color being in community with one another, and living with purpose or our “soul’s calling”. You can catch all of the highlights HERE.

✹ Team Accolades ✹

G4GC’s Maheen Kaleem, Solace Mensah-Narh, Amirah Fauzi, and grantee partners joined the CHANGE Unity Summit in Minneapolis

Solace’s session, Living Data: Mapping Representation and Resourcing of the Nonprofit Sector, featured the launch of a new intersectional equity tool, co-created by members of the Women’s Funding Network that links 990 financial data with Candid’s demographics dataset of 77,000+ organizations. Attendees learned how to apply the tool to advance their equity strategies.

We also hosted a session titled Safety Strategies Rooted in the Wisdom of Youth of Color with grantee partners Young Women’s Freedom Center, Mirror Memoirs, and Transformations.

In a time when communities are being called to reimagine what safety looks like beyond state systems, this panel highlighted the power of collective care, peer support, and youth-led leadership as pathways toward true freedom.

Article Spotlight: ‘Don’t Say We Didn’t Tell You’

In a new Proximate piece written by G4GC’s Maheen Kaleem alongside Jody Myrum and Laura V., we explore how youth-led movements across the Global Majority are reimagining democracy from the ground up. “Youth are not waiting for seats at broken tables – they are building their own.”

Across the globe, human rights are being stripped away amid the rise of fascist regimes, intensified surveillance, and coordinated attacks on women, girls, LGBTQI+, migrant, and refugee communities. Yet, amid this repression, some of the most courageous and visionary resistance is emerging, led by girls, queer youth, feminists, Indigenous peoples, and caste-oppressed communities who are not only surviving and resisting but actively building democratic, liberated futures. The article calls on philanthropy to fund resilient, autonomous, and agile infrastructures, supporting youth-led and intergenerational organizing so movements can thrive for generations to come. Read more HERE.

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2025 Year-End Reflections and Updates

carissa — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:17:12 +0000

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 color whose wisdom lights the way.

This year, we’ve witnessed this truth again and again: in the organizing spaces we’ve supported, in the philanthropic gatherings we’ve attended, and through the internal evolution of our own organization. For nearly five years, G4GC has been a consistent and leading voice on the urgency of investing in organizations and movements that center the wisdom and well-being of girls and gender-expansive youth of color.

Since 2020, we have granted more than $28 million to 400+ organizations nationwide. We have mobilized millions more to organizations that center the wisdom and well-being of girls and gender-expansive youth of color through funding collectives, advising, and donor mobilizing. We did this with care, and with partnerships that expanded our communities and capacities to facilitate transformative change across the nation.

In everything we do, our North Star is to center the wisdom and well-being of girls and gender-expansive youth of color in the U.S. and beyond. In these challenging times, when everything is up for revision, G4GC has implemented some internal changes to strengthen our organization and ensure our sustainability as a philanthropic intermediary, sothat we can live more deeply and fully into our role in this ecosystem. We are deeply grateful for each individual who has contributed to our evolution.

Here is what is not up for revision – our commitment to mobilizing resources that support movements and organizations that center the wisdom and well-being of girls and gender-expansive youth of color. Our work will continue to grow, and each of our funds will remain intact.

In 2026, we’re launching the Catalytic Futures Fund – the outcome of the Future Economy Lab with SecondMuse Capital that we began four years ago. Our commitment to research-based efforts to perform our function as a philanthropic intermediary at the highest quality will also continue. Young people will remain our guides and at the center of our operationalization of our theory of impact, reciprocity as praxis.

G4GC is not only still here – we are moving into a position of strength for the next five years and beyond. As we move forward, we will continue to keep you updated about key milestones, progress and impact.

To this end, we invite funders and philanthropic leaders to join us next May in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a powerful in-person gathering rooted in intergenerational wisdom and collective action. This is more than a conference: it’s a homecoming, a space where we strategize how to best support and center youth leadership that continues to transform our communities. Register soon to secure your early-bird rate before it ends on December 31st.

Together, we’re not just imagining a different future – we’re building it, in partnership, with healing at the center and love as our foundation. We’re thrilled to share additional G4GC updates and resources below, and we remind you as always to take good care.

In community,

Monique Couvson
G4GC President & CEO

✹ G4GC News ✹

G4GC 2026 Convening Early-bird Registration is extended to Dec 31!

Spread the word: our early-bird registration pricing is extended until December 31! Rooted in intergenerational wisdom and collective action, funders, philanthropic leaders, and co-investors are coming together May 12-15, 2026 in Charlotte, North Carolina, to continue our vital collective work.

Our goal remains clear: resource our youth and create more just, equitable, and affirming futures for young people. Learn more, view sponsorship opportunities, and subscribe for updates HERE.

Transformation’s Liberation Camp

This past month Tran Ton Nu, G4GC’s Digital Strategist attended Liberation Camp, hosted by Transformations, a G4GC grantee partner. Liberation Camp is a weeklong event is organized exclusively for trans-BIPOC leaders. Attendees participate in leadership and skill-building workshops, intergenerational conversations, and fun outdoor activities. As a sponsor of Liberation Camp, G4GC is proud to support Transformations and the critical work they are doing to resource trans communities of color and trans youth in the Arkansas, Kansas, and Missouri regions. Congrats, Transformations, for another successful camp! Learn more at transformationskc.org and liberationcamp.org.

G4GC community partners recognized by Brooklyn Org 25

Brooklyn Org 25 celebrates the joy and determination of our communities. This year, they’re honoring the Founders and Executive Directors of two grantee partner organizations, #1Billion4BlackGirls Co-founder Joanne N. Smith from Girls for Gender Equity and Lauren Blodgett from The Brave House.

We’re honored to be in community with these two organizations that are making an impact for girls and gender-expansive youth of color in Brooklyn. Learn more about The Brooklyn Org 25 HERE.

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G4GC 2026 Convening Early-bird Registration is extended to Dec 31!

Transformation’s Liberation Camp

G4GC community partners recognized by Brooklyn Org 25

Share a youth story, event, or opportunity with us!

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