2016 MayMovement – Call for Coordinators
#InvestInGirls Leadership
Hello #SuperFriend, Thank you for investing in the 2015 Super Camp Scholarship Fund! Thanks to your investment, GrassROOTS Community Foundation served 17 #SuperGirls and 5 Super Boys. Your investment helped us foster social action in girls, as evidenced by the success of #SuperGirl Marley’s #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign. We could not have done that without you! We still need your help. We invite you to double your give in this year’s Super Camp Scholarship Fund at www.gofundme.com/investingirls. Last year, we only hit 50%…
2016 SuperCamp Registration for Seedlings SuperGirls
2016 SuperCamp Registration for Leaves SuperGirls
NJ 11-Year-Old Launches #1000BlackGirlBooks: Fox29
WTXF - 11-year-old Marley Dias, who was born in Philadelphia and lives in New Jersey, noticed recently that none of the books she was assigned at school featured anyone who looked like her. So she responded by launching a book drive called #1000blackgirlbooks, with the goal of collecting 1,000 books featuring black female protagonists by the end of January. She plans to donate them to a library in Jamaica, with some of the books coming to Philadelphia as well. Marley appeared on Good…
Senior Citizens Dinner at Georgia King Village
Confident Girls Tee
GrassROOTS Super Camp is a summer leadership academy for girls of African ancestry. The Camp provides girls with leadership training and CONFIDENCE grounded in a sense of history and cultural understanding. We have produced these tee shirts to support our Super Camp Scholarship Fund. SuperCamp Scholarship Fund Each year GrassROOTS seeks to raise funds to support the work of SuperCamp. This wonderful and unique experience for girls of African descent is made possible through the generosity of GrassROOTS…
End of Year Fundraising Campaign
WHO: GrassROOTS Community Foundation #GivingTuesday/End of Year Fundraising Campaign GOAL: To raise $10,000 to provide general operating support for GrassROOTS . WHAT: #Giving Tuesday is an international movement that celebrates charitable activities at the start of the holiday season. #GivingTuesday begins on Tuesday, December 1st (the Tuesday after Thanksgiving). #GivingTuesday will be the kick off of GrassROOTS’ end of the year fundraising campaign. WHEN: GrassROOTS will announce the campaign on November 27th via an electronic newsletter and…