Mona Scott-Young – GrassROOTS Community Foundation

2020 Turkey Drive Challenge begins

For the past ten years, GrassROOTS has been providing necessary resources for families in need. This year, GrassROOTS will host #GiveThanks Turkey Giveaway events in Newark, New Jersey and Atlanta, Georgia. Our New Jersey giving will go to residents of Newark. This includes students at Central High School and residents of Georgia King Village (GKV) in the West Ward of Newark. GKV is a housing development in Newark, and home to a significant number of single, black mothers and their children. Almost…

Give Thanks Cocktail Fundraiser

October 22, 2018
Dr. Janice Johnson Dias
Events

The 2018 GIVE THANKS Cocktail Fundraiser is being held at the Montclair Art Museum. Guests will enjoy the beautiful African drumming sounds of Yahya Kamate and poetry by the GrassROOTS SuperGirls. Following the award presentations, DJ Scotty Nevers will keep us on the dance floor all night. For the past eight years, GrassROOTS, through our intensive summer leadership camp and SuperGirls Society, has encouraged and activated girls to become youth leaders and changemakers. Through their local, national and international meeting…

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…

Give Thanks For Girls Benefit Gala

Our 5th Annual Give Thanks Gala will take place on Saturday November 18th. National honorees: Marsai Martin, Black-ish Haile Thomas, The Happy Organization Mikaila Ulmer, Me & The Bees Lemonade

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November 23, 2015
Dr. Janice Johnson Dias
Press

2015 Give Thanks

2015 Let’s Move It Philly

2015 GrassROOTS Annual Let's Move It: Philly Town Hall and Hip Hop Party with Black Thought, Talib Kweli, Mona Scott-Young, State Rep Stephen Kinsey and the community of Germantown.