ROOTS, ROCK, RUN 5k Free Training
GrassROOTS Community Foundation will offer a free 10-week training program to get the community of Germantown Philadelphia ready for the Roots, Rock, Run Community 5K Walk/Run 5k on Saturday, June 4, 2016.
1000 Black Girl Books Resource Guide
A resource guide created from the #1000blackgirlbooks campaign led by Marley Dias. Over 4000 books have been collected. This resource guide includes some of those books that have been catalog into an easy to find database. This resource is appropriate for parents, children, educators, schools, and libraries.
2016 MayMovement – Call for Coordinators
MayMovement is a fun, high energy, encouraging and supportive community wellness program. It is designed to energize individuals, families and communities to engage in outdoor activities together starting on May 1, 2016.
#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
SuperCamp is a family-based camp for girls of African descent. Our camp is based on psychological theories that recognize the relationship between positive racial and social identity development for children’s well-being. As a supplement to children’s educational experience, we focus on areas of African and African American history not typically included in standard school curricula. SuperGirls explore and learn the histories of cultural icons and heroes that reflect their own biographies.
2016 SuperCamp Registration for Leaves SuperGirls
SuperCamp is a family-based camp for girls and boys of African descent. Our camp is based on psychological theories that recognize the relationship between positive racial and social identity development for children’s well-being. As a supplement to children’s educational experience, we focus on areas of African and African American history not typically included in standard school curricula. Campers explore and learn the histories of cultural icons and heroes that reflect their own biographies.
Invest in Youth
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill speaking on the significance of young people being at the center of social change, and the importance of supporting organizations like GrassROOTS Community Foundation to strengthen and build communities. Dr. Marc Lamont Hill is one of the leading intellectual voices in the country. He is the host of HuffPost Live and BET News, as well as a political contributor for CNN. He is also Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College.
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…
Black Girls Lead Poem 2015
SuperGirls Marley and Tori performs at #blackgirlslead conversation with Carla Harris and GrassROOTS Trailblazers. SuperGirls perform the group poem created by Dr. Sandra Lewis for SuperCamp Published on Dec 9, 2015