BGSC Partners with the Precious Dream Foundation in Major Cities Worldwide
BGSC Partners with The Black & Missing Foundation, Donating $1,000 to the Non-Profit
BGSC Partners with When We All Vote!
BGSC Partners with Samaritan’s FEET to Provide Food & Shoes to the Community!
BGSC ATL Partners with Solomon’s Temple
BGSC is sponsoring 5 rooms within Solomon’s Temple to provide supplies and and resources necessary to provide service to the women and children who depend on this center. Solomon’s Temple is a holistic emergency and transitional facility for homeless women and their children. The core programs of shelter, food, family coaching and employment services are designed to help guide homeless families toward lives of independence. Solomon’s Temple utilizes a family coaching model versus the standard case management approach to facilitate the progression of our families. Under this approach, families are not managed, but rather manage the execution of their own goals with the family coach providing supplemental support. Understanding that the ability to make productive decisions and take control of life happenings is a learned ability, Solomon’s Temple works to cultivate executive functioning skills within each family. Executive functioning skills help individuals navigate stressful situations so that they are able to contextualize their situation, think critically about next steps and effectively execute on a plan.
We Partnered with Alter Therapy to Provide Members with Discounted Counseling Services
BGSC HOSTS A NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION #BLACKLIVESMATTER
BGSC is coming together for a national BGSC call on June 6th at 2 PM EST. We are going to be discussing the recent events, and how we should be moving forward. We’re inviting select influencers, activists, lawyers and organizers.
On the Agenda:
1. Black death and how it's impacting our mental health
2. Black women dying state sanctioned deaths and feelings around exclusion
3. How police brutality impacts our households/families
4. Resources we can tap into
5. Steps we can take to support the movement/our community
We Partnered with Black Girls Who Paint!
This community fund supports actual Black girls, teens, and students during their artist education and growth! Each month, one girl between the ages of 6-18 will receive the Girls Award, a $50 e-gift card to an art store for supplies! And guess what!? We sponsored the first Girls Award for the month of May! Let's support our local Black girls who paint! If you'd like to apply or nominate an amazing artist, please go to @blackgirlswhopaint on Instagram (BGWP Awards Fund)!"
We Partnered with Elohvi!
We recently partnered with Elohvi to send beautiful care packages to essential workers in the BGSC Community amid the COVID crisis. We were excited to send the gift of self care their way thanks to Elohvi!
We Sponsored Lunch for Essential Workers!
It’s our pleasure to give back to the people who are doing incredible work doing the COVID crisis. We we were excited to sponsor lunch for a number of essential workers May 2020.
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We’re Offering Virtual Spanish Classes to Our Members!
Meet Our Teacher!
Felicia Ali, J.D. graduated from Howard University in 2009 with a Bachelors in Modern Language and Literature with a concentration in Spanish. After briefly teaching high school Spanish in Miami, Florida, she attended Nova Southeastern University and obtained a Juris Doctorate degree in 2013. She currently runs a non-profit organization that empowers youth and disabled adults through a plethora of services. Growing up in Miami, Spanish has always had a special place in her heart. She began formally learning the language at age 8 through bilingual immersion schools and was fluent by high school. The decision to major in Spanish in college was an easy one. Howard University allowed her to connect to the Afro-Latino culture and she fell in even deeper love with the language. Throughout the years, she has continued to connect others to the Spanish language and culture through private classes.
We’re Offering Our Members Free Resume Review in Partnership Real Support NYC
Joan McGrath has taken her passion in hospitality, personal finance, and career advisement to the next level by combining her skills to fit the needs of her community. She takes being a real support to each individual seriously. She is dedicated to enhancing and providing knowledge she has acquired during her 10 years of experience. This is what drove her to launching Real Support which has been helping countless amount of individuals achieve their goals ever since. She is a New York native with a CAN DO attitude and willing to go the extra for herself and others. As she is a proponent to believing that giving your best to others, you must be striving to always give the best to yourself simultaneously. During this uncertain time, she will be offering free advisement, a brand new resume from scratch and an updated Linked In profile to women in the BGSC community. You follow her on @realsupportnyc