The DFW Black Giving Tuesday Guide
Happy Giving Tuesday, everyone!
Let me first say, whoever decided that after a weekend full of shopping you should then donate to your favorite organizations is super wrong for that! Since I did not go to Florida this past weekend I allowed myself to do a little (or a lot) of online shopping but I made sure I saved enough to make a few contributions to my favorite organizations.
If you’re new here, you will quickly learn that I will always put on for Black people in Dallas and beyond. So as you think and strategize about your financial giving plan for Giving Tuesday or in general, I highly encourage you to support these local organizations. Their websites are linked so that you can do more research if you’d like. Be sure to follow them on social media and support their initiatives! 2020 has been hard enough but they are all still here thriving and shining.
As always, feel free to share this and I hope you find it useful! Happy #GivingTuesday again! Let me know who you’re giving to.
Abide Women’s Health Services: Their aim is to improve birth outcomes in communities with the lowest quality of care.
The Afiya Center: Their mission is to serve Black women and girls by transforming their relationship with their sexual and reproductive health through addressing the consequences of reproduction oppression.
B.L.A.C.K. 2 Life: Their mission is to empower black men to strengthen underserved communities through education and inspiration.
The Black Academy of Arts & Letters: The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Inc., is a multi-discipline arts institution whose mission is to create and enhance an awareness and understanding of artistic, cultural and aesthetic differences utilizing the framework of African, African American and Caribbean Arts and Letters.
BYP100 (Black Youth Project 100): BYP100 is a member-based organization of Black youth activists creating justice and freedom for all Black people.
Carter’s House: Carter's House provides children and their families with low-cost school and professional, parental support programs, and holistic self-sufficiency programming that improves confidence and success for the whole family.
CAWP Cares: Community Awareness With a Purpose seeks to passionately serve the needs of our community by developing projects and services to strengthen and enhance the lives of others.
Dallas Black Dance Theatre: The mission of Dallas Black Dance Theatre is to create and produce contemporary modern dance at its highest level of artistic excellence.
Dallas-Fort Worth Urban League Young Professionals (DFWULYP): Home team alert! We are committed to supporting the DFW metroplex through service, civic engagement, and leadership development.
Dallas Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation (TRHT): Their mission is to create a radically inclusive city by addressing race and racism through narrative change, relationship building and equitable policies and practices.
Develop Y.O.U. (Youth Outreach United): They focus on youth character development, one on one character/life coaching, athletic skills training, and apparel.
Faith In Texas: Led by my big sister, Faith in Texas is a nonpartisan, multi-racial, multi-faith grassroots movement of people united in values working together to achieve economic, racial, and social justice for all people.
For Oak Cliff: Y’all already know how I feel about them. For Oak Cliff mission is to serve the South Oak Cliff community. Just ask about them.
Greater Than Expectations: As stated on their site, “Greater Than Expectations, Inc. was born of a childhood dream to do more so that kids who have become a part of the foster care system know that they can ultimately be more than their current circumstances.”
Harmony Community Development Corporation: The 501c3 under Concord Church. #WeGrowPeople
Heart of Courage: Heart of Courage provides support and advocacy for women who have their children placed in Texas foster care system and mothers who have aged out of the foster care system.
HERitage Giving Fund: Proud Founding Member over here! The mission of HERitage is to encourage philanthropy in the Black community, to contribute in a strategic and meaningful way, and to bring a new source of funding to nonprofit organizations serving Black women and girls throughout the North Texas area.
I Look Like Love: They provides Dallas families with the overlooked essential of diapers and opportunities to empower themselves.
The Imagining Freedom (IF) Institute: The Imagining Freedom Institute (The IF Institute), is a thought leadership group that works with organizations and institutions to build their capacity for internal and external equity and social justice work.
The MINT Foundation: Their mission is to empower children and families to be self-sustaining through education, training, mentoring and service.
National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition: According to Blavity, we are up to 39 deaths which is beyond absurd. This is an organization based in Carrollton. The National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition is the only social justice organization led by Black trans people to collectively address the inequities faced in the black transgender human experience.
National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Dallas: Their mission is advocate on behalf of black women and girls to promote leadership development and gender equity in the areas of health, education and economic empowerment.
Minnie’s Food Pantry: Minnie’s Food Pantry, provides healthy meals, educational resources and red-carpet treatment to every person they serve.
Pretty Ambition Sister Circle: Founded by a Soror of mine, their mission is to develop programs and leadership initiatives that help nurture youth and help them develop the skills they will carry throughout their lives to become a future female leaders.
Rae’s Hope: Fun fact, I discovered them during North Texas Giving Day 2016 and although I’ve never volunteered with them, I donate yearly! Rae’s Hope works with girls from South Dallas and surrounding communities, ages 5-18 years old to create opportunity, nurture potential and inspire achievement.
Seeds to STEM: Seeds to STEM (STS) is a non-profit organization that works to successfully evaluate educate and develop students in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Southern Dallas Progress Community Development Corporation: Their mission is to mission is to empower, enable and support community members in their efforts to revitalize Southern Dallas communities and neighborhoods.
Terrance M. Johnson Dance Project: The TMJ Dance Project is nonprofit organization that uses the art of dance to enrich the lives of children and families in historically underserved living communities.
Toast For Charity: As listed on their site, “Our mission is to provide platforms for people to ignite change in the community. Our vision is to galvanize millennials to give their time, talents, and funds to the socioeconomic advancement for kids of color in southern Dallas.”
The Village Giving Circle: The mission of The Village Giving Circle at Texas Women’s Foundation is to honor, sustain and expand the legacy of African American women’s philanthropy by funding organizations and initiatives that positively impact the African-American community in North Texas.
Women Called Moses: Women Called Moses was created to be an underground railroad for survivors of domestic violence.
YES Thrive: Their mission is to empower our community by developing young urban males into leaders in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
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