#GivingTuesday!
As 2020 draws to a close, we need your support to continue our work at GrassROOTS Community Foundation.
We are a training organization with a focus on public health and social justice. Our work is becoming more relevant each day, particularly as we continue to battle a global pandemic and racial strife within the United States and abroad.
GrassROOTS’ mission begins with girls and the environments that shape their lives, namely home and schools.
In 2021, we will focus on three core areas:
Educational Development and Training
Emergency Support
Policy Action
- Educational Development & Training: We want to ensure that our community receives the highest level of training possible. We seek to increase our knowledge of public health, data literacy and socio-political history.
- Policy Action: We will be advocating for policies that improve the health and wellbeing of women and girls.
- Emergency Support: We will continue to prioritize girls and their caregiving circles, particularly their parents and guardians by providing and increasing access to daily and necessary resources such as menstruation products and food.
Ways to Support
Public health data literacy training
- Donate to help pay faculty and teaching assistants
- Apply to participate
#endperiodpoverty campaign
- Donate to support ship/transport supplies to point of need
- Send menstrual supplies to Jamaica and/or the US
- Write to your legislature to end tampon tax
#1000blackgirlbooks
- Send copies of Black girl books
- Donate to ship books and to hire staff to complete online database
Operational support
- Donate to help us continue our work
- Pay consultants and speakers
- Ship goods
Our Programs
Educational Development and Training
Partnership with NYU Global Public Health
Quantitative Public Health Data Literacy Training
Replication of the CARES-Community Alliance for Research Empowering Social change
Partnership with Anna Julia Cooper Center
Civics in Color: understanding federal, state and local government and our place in it
#GreenRibbonWeek
Supporting positive mental health for youth
Roots, Rock, Run 5k Training
Community training and 5k run/walk
Emergency Support
Give Thanks
Provide emergency food care to families in Georgia and New Jersey
#RedDotDay
Raising awareness to #endperiodshame
Build “Red Spot” Pantries in middle and high schools in the US, Jamaica and Ghana
Policy Action
#1000blackgirlbooks
Building diverse school curricula and library
#EndPeriodPoverty
Support legislation that removes tax on menstruation products
Any monetary support will continue to provide much needed programs for our communities.
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