Grantmakers for Girls of Color

🌼 As we enter 2025, we are looking forward to continuing our work of building a liberated world for and with girls and gender-expansive youth of Color! 🌟✨

Today's youth spotlight is Sofia Ongele, 24, a software developer and hacktivist. At age 17, she created ReDawn, an app to support sexual assault survivors. Currently, Ongele is the Director of Digital Strategy at Gen-Z for Change. She is also an influencer on TikTok, where she shares her thoughts on a variety of social justice issues and mobilizes young people to take action. Thank you Sofia for showing us the power of coding and social media in movement work!

"As we reflect on this pivotal year, we are reminded of both the challenges and the resilience that define us. In a time marked by rollbacks to civil rights, gender justice, and social progress, we have witnessed a remarkable coming together—a solidarity that fuels our mission at Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC)." - Dr. Monique Couvson, G4GC President & CEO Read our 2024 Executive Summary to see our highlights from this year and what our community can expect for the next: g4gc.org/reports

✨ Our organization is taking a winter break! ❄️ We'll be closed from December 16, 2024, to January 5, 2025. Wishing you all a joyful holiday season filled with rest and cheer! Can't wait to reconnect in the new year! 💖 #WinterBreak #HappyHolidays #G4GC

G4GC has launched a NEW Community Funding Opportunities page on our website! Visit https://g4gc.org/fundopps to see the latest funding and paid opportunities. Have a funding opportunity to list? Submit via our website it for review today!

How can big philanthropy engage in a true partnership with community-based organizations during these unprecedented times? Learn more from Kavita Mehra at Sakhi for South Asian Survivors about what this moment requires from philanthropy: https://lnkd.in/gkffbRiG

We're deeply grateful for the words, wisdom, power, joy and advocacy that Nikki so generously gifted us to support our communities. We celebrate and honor the impact Nikki brought into this world. ✨

As part of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we are sharing the advice Indigenous youth in our community would give to their younger. These interviews are from our New Songs Rising Fellowship retreat. Our fellows gathered in the Pueblo of Isleta in New Mexico to embark on the New Songs Rising Initiative (NSRI)'s first participatory grantmaking process, where they built solidarity and refined their leadership skills. Learn more about how the New Songs Rising Fellowship is shaping G4GC's Indigenous Grantmaking: https://g4gc.org/nsrf2024

We love it when our grantee partners are recognized for their amazing work! Allie Redhorse Young is the Director and Founder of Protect the Sacred, a grantee partner of our New Songs Rising Initiative. This year, Allie and Protect the Sacred, organized "Ride to the Polls," mobilizing Indigenous youth with events like skateboarding and horseback riding to increase voter turnout in rural Arizona. Congrats to Allie and Protect the Sacred! Read their Teen Vogue feature to learn more about this effort: https://lnkd.in/gB2wk53X

Congratulations to Solace Mensah-Narh, G4GC's Data Analyst, for joining the Intersectional Dashboard Design Cohort, a collaboration between Women's Funding Network (WFN), @candiddotorg, and members of Women's Funding Network. The Intersectional Dashboard will provide an in-depth look at nonprofit leadership trends in the context of race and gender, making this data publicly accessible to all. Learn more about the project and all participating organizations: https://lnkd.in/ehSuXRwe