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The Black Benefactors

Announces 2012 Black History Month Grant Awards

 

 


Greetings and Happy Black History Month!

 

We are pleased to announce our 2012 Black History Month grant awards to three organizations that enhance the lives of children, youth and families in the Washington, DC region.  They are:

  

 

Adventure Theatre

Glen Echo, Maryland

$1,000

   

Adventure Theatre is the longest running children's theater in the Washington, DC metropolitan area reaching nearly 50,000 children and families annually.  In 2011, the theater celebrated its 60th anniversary and launched African American Adventures, a series of African American children's plays.  Funding will support the costs of DC children's attendance of the The Snowy Day, a musical adaption of the famous children's book that featured the first African American character.

www.adventuretheatre.org

  

 

DC Students Construction Trades Foundation

Washington, DC

$500.00

  

This organization was identified from the 2011-12 Catalogue for Philanthropy Greater Washington, an annual publication that selects worthy nonprofits to support.  Since 2005, the organization has prepared District residents for success in careers, education and life serving as a partner with D.C. Public Schools and the D.C. Apprenticeship Council.  Their wish list from the Catalog states that $500 can purchase nails and shingles for a training site.

http://dcstudentsctf.org/

 

  

Global Kids

Washington, DC

$1,000

 

Global Kids works to ensure that urban youth have the knowledge, skills, experiences and values they need to succeed in school, participate effectively in the democratic process and achieve leadership in their communities and on the global stage.  Funding will support their 2012 Global Gateways Summer Program.

www.globalkids.org

 

 

We'd like to welcome these grantees to the Black Benefactors family!  Throughout the year we will feature our grantees in upcoming newsletters.    A special thanks to the Black Benefactors Grantmaking Committee!

 

 

In The Community:  The 86th Annual ASALH Black History Luncheon 

 

Black Benefactors members attend Annual ASALH Black History Luncheon
Guy Lambert, Master of Ceremonies and News Director of WPGC; Thelma Jones, Black Benefactors (BB) Founding Member; Tracey Webb, BB Founder; Dr. Johnnetta Cole, keynote speaker and Director of Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; and Jennifer Hardy, BB Member

 

On Saturday, February 25, 2012, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) hosted its 86th Annual Black History Luncheon at the Renaissance Washington Hotel in Washington, DC with over 1,000 guests attending.  Black Benefactors founder Tracey Webb served as an honorary co-chair and was honored with the Living Legacy Award, and founding member Thelma Jones served on the luncheon's executive planning committee.      

 

  

Event Calendar

 

The Conversation - Women of Color in America

 

The Black Benefactors is serving as a sponsor for a screening and film discussion of the documentary 'Dark Girls' on February 29, 2012 from 6:30 to 9:30 pm at the U.S. Navy Memorial. 

 

Dual documentary Directors/Producers D. Channsin Berry (Urban Winter Entertainment) and Bill Duke (Duke Media) took their cameras into everyday America in search of pointed, unfiltered and penetrating interviews with Black women of the darkest hues for their emotional expose,' Dark Girls. Two years in the making, Dark Girls pulls back the country's curtain to reveal that the deep seated biases and hatreds of racism - within and outside of the Black American culture - remain bitterly entrenched. 

 

Tickets are $25 and $50.  To purchase tickets, visit http://theconversationwomenofcolor.eventbrite.com/

 

Along with the Black Benefactors, sponsors are the Duke Media Foundation, the Black Philanthropic Alliance, and Jackson and Associates Group, LLC.