Celebrate Black History Now with the SuperGirls
GrassROOTS Community Foundation celebrates and honors Black History Month through activism. Learn and support our SuperGirls social action projects.
SuperCamp Application for girls 1st-5th grade is now open (Summer 2019)
The same camp that trained SuperGirl Marley Dias is now accepting applicants. Applications for our leadership development program are open. If you live in the City of Philadelphia and Essex County, New Jersey, you are eligible to apply for our SuperGirlsSociety (SGS). SGS is a family-based yearlong leadership development program that works with girls of African descent and their caregiving circle. This unique association provides public health and social action programming with an emphasis on sisterhood and service. This…
Help Us End Period Poverty
Girls in poverty will miss almost one third of a school year, simply because they are a girl. Thirty-seven states tax girls and women for period products. As early as age 9, the majority of girls will begin menstruation. This launch into womanhood constitutes many changes to their lives. For girls with meager and limited resources menstruation introduces new and more stressful financial burdens. The consequences of which can impede their educational achievements. The effects are compounded for those…
HealthCare Fellowship with RWJBarnabas 2017
In the summer of 2017, GrassROOTS Community Foundation in partnership with RWJFBarnabas participate in the Healthcare Fellows Program. RWJBarnabas provided 32-Hours (combined) “Introduction to Healthcare” Fellowship Rotation. Girls completed 5 rotations in the following divisions: Marketing Pharmacy Social Work Technology Government Policy
2018 Turkey Challenge begins
For the past eight years, GrassROOTS has been providing necessary resources for Newark, the West Ward neighborhood and the over 1,000 families living at Georgia King Village, a housing development in Newark, and home to a significant number of single, black mothers and their children. Almost 30 percent of Newark’s residents live below the US poverty threshold and 1 in 5 residents of Essex County are food insecure. In previous years we have partnered with the City of Newark and…
SuperCamp PSA 2018
SuperCamp is the intensive leadership training experience of the GrassROOTS Community Foundation SuperGirls Society. The program has been in operation since summer 2011. The training program focuses on building self-efficacy, confidence, sisterhood and a dedication to service.
Green Ribbon Week
GrassROOTS SuperGirls launch Green Ribbon Week Campaign to promote positive mental health of youth. The goal of Green Ribbon Week campaign is to promote positive mental health for youth by encouraging healthy behaviors that can prevent and/or reduce risk factors for mental disorder. In 2017 GrassROOTS Community Foundation (GrassROOTS) collaborated with RWJBarnabas to develop the Healthcare Fellows, a pipeline of black girl leaders in healthcare. The fellowship extends beyond the traditional STEM framework to teach girls about the business, policy, implementation…
SuperCamp Showcase
This year’s SuperCamp theme is MOBILIZATION. SuperGirls learned about four key areas of mobilization for people of African descent: the African experience on the continent as well as the Abolitionist, Voting Rights/Suffrage, the Civil Rights and Black Lives Matter movement in the US. They learned about the ways in which activists define the social issues, raised awareness, build coalitions, developed strategies as well as the way we have implemented and monitored success in an effort to move toward sustainable change. More specifically, SuperGirls studied African and African American History,…
GrassROOTS No To Sugar Challenge 2018
Join the #GCFSugarPledge. WHY? According to medical and public health officials, excessive intake of sugar can negatively impact our minds and our bodies. At GrassROOTS we are devoted to promoting and supporting wellness by helping our community members eat healthier and move more. We are also committed to sharing information that helps us all live and longer healthier lives. In so doing we hope to reduce the incidences of obesity and optimize well-being. For these reasons, we are…
GrassROOTS Community Foundation’s Think F.A.S.T.E.R Conference
It was held on Friday, April 13, 2018 at Essex County College in Newark, NJ. This one of a kind convening that brings together high school and college girls from New Jersey focuses on offering strategies for how girls can succeed in Finance, Arts, Science, Technology, Engineering and Research. Girl participants had an opportunity to meet with high-level executives from each of these fields. Each of these women investor has been specifically selected because their narratives mirror the girls we…