THE PETE AND THOMAS FOUNDATION JOINS “JOY IS OUR JOURNEY” DREAM BUS TOUR AS A COMMUNITY PARTNER
THE PETE AND THOMAS FOUNDATION JOINS SOUTHERN BLACK GIRLS AND WOMEN’S CONSORTIUM AS A COMMUNITY PARTNER FOR INAUGURAL “JOY IS OUR JOURNEY” DREAM BUS TOUR, AUGUST 20 - SEPTEMBER 17, 2022 With confirmed stops planned in Atlanta, Little Rock, Jackson and more, the month-long caravan will culminate in Birmingham on September 16-17 for the 2022 Black Girls Dream Conference. (ATLANTA) AUGUST 24, 2022: TheSouthern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium (Southern [...]
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Southern girls are concerned about racism at school, the quality of their education, finances at home, and social injustice in their community. If girls are carrying all this, when do they have time to be girls? The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium is a network of activists and philanthropists who fund Black girls' needs with the aim to create space for Joy. Join us. More Ways to [...]
Congratulations to the 2022 #BlackGirlJoy Challenge Winners
The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium (SBGWC) is proud to be a grantee partner of Comic Relief US, the organization behind Red Nose Day. Our organizations share a belief in a future where there are no underserved communities. At SBGWC we are choosing to focus on Joy and with support from Comic Relief US, we are providing grants to girls and gender expansive youth, through our #BlackGirlJoyChallenge. These grants [...]
2022 Black Girls Dream Conference
We can't wait to meet you in the Magic City. We know that JOY is essential. Since we’ve last shared space together we have lived through a pandemic, racial and social justice protests, a contentious electoral cycle, and a continuous slate of violent racially-motivated shootings. We learned from women before us that Joy is a lifesaving strategy. Rosa Parks, Septima Poinsette Clark, Shirley Sherrod, Diane Nash, Johnnie Carr, [...]
“Joy Is Our Journey” Dream Tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0NIJIrmupM JOIN IN OUR JOY. REGISTER TODAY. The Joy is our Journey Dream Bus Tour is FREE, open to the public and specifically designed for Black girls, young women and gender-expansive youth, between the ages of 12-24, as a safe space to connect and exhale. Considered a mini-festival like experience, each tour stop will host an exciting Dream Village event that will feature interactive workshops and programming centered around [...]
SOUTHERN BLACK GIRLS AND WOMEN’S CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES SUMMER OF FUN AND FUNDING WITH “JOY IS OUR JOURNEY”
SOUTHERN BLACK GIRLS AND WOMEN’S CONSORTIUM ANNOUNCES SUMMER OF FUN AND FUNDING WITH “JOY IS OUR JOURNEY” “Joy Is Our Journey” events will kick-off with an exclusive, invite-only event during ESSENCE Festival of Culture and will continue with a six-week Dream Tour throughout Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas from August 20-September 18, 2022. (ATLANTA, GA) JUNE 22, 2022: The Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium (SWBGC / The Consortium) has [...]