Dear G4GC Community, April marks five years since I stepped in as the inaugural CEO for G4GC. I find myself reflecting on all that we have achieved and the powerful partnerships and relationships we have cultivated in that time. We’ve not just built an organization that nurtures ecosystems supporting our youth, we’ve ignited a movement…
Read MoreMonique Couvson Wants Society to Better Understand Black Girls
We are thrilled to share that G4GC President/CEO Dr. Monique Couvson is featured on TIME’s 2025 list of ‘The Closers’! A list of Black leaders working to end the racial equity gap. In the TIME article with the headline ‘Monique Couvson Wants Society to Better Understand Black Girls,’ she expresses the importance of young people…
Read MoreUnveiling of Groundbreaking GAO Report on Pushout of Black Girls in Schools
(Image, from left to right: Speaker-Emerita Nancy Pelosi, Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ-12), Congresswoman Robin Kelly (IL-02), Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, Dr. Monique Couvson, G4GC President & CEO and author of “Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Rebecca Amadi, Federal Policy Manager at GLSEN., Fatima Goss…
Read MoreFall 2024 Newsletter
Dear G4GC Community, As we celebrate International Day of the Girl today and transition into the fall season, we are grateful for the solidarity and grace our community has gifted to us, especially during the series of grantee meetings we held recently to discuss how to navigate retrenchments in funding for racial and gender justice. Despite the…
Read MoreYouth Are Protecting Our Democracy. We Need to Invest in Them.
PUBLISHED 8/27/2024 by Maheen Kaleem During a gathering of over 100 girl-led and girl-serving organizations in California hosted by Alliance for Girls, a 17-year-old high school journalist described the walkouts at local high schools after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade: “Just because we can’t vote yet doesn’t mean we don’t care!” she exclaimed….
Read MoreSummer 2024 Newsletter
Dear G4GC Community, We hope your spring was recharging and that you entered the summer season with renewed energy. While we progress through this year, we are in continued solidarity and support of our communities as they navigate many immeasurable challenges—in our country and in the world. And in these difficult times of turmoil and…
Read MoreRaising the Value of Communities by Investing in Girls of Color
As we navigate through this pivotal moment in history of rollbacks to civil rights, gender justice, and social progress, we are also seeing a generational transfer of wealth boosting women’s economic power and women taking bold measures to move capital into the hands of other women. While we recognize and applaud how women are poised…
Read MoreInnovation by Black girls and women in the arts creates possibilities for us all
By Cidra Sebastien I still remember the day I met Tina Turner at Tower Records as a 5-year-old Black girl. She filled the room with her lovely laugh, big smile and even bigger energy. It was exhilarating to see her, a Black woman artist owning the entire store. I was in awe of the presence…
Read MoreTransforming trans survival into trans joy
By Nahr Suha and Dr. Monique W. Morris Trans girls and gender-expansive youth of color deserve to be safe, free and thriving. But today, trans and gender-expansive communities are facing multiple, interlocking systems of oppression. Across cities and states, trans communities are under attack from anti-trans legislation that aims to direct physical, psychological and spiritual…
Read MoreLet Black women-led funds and Black girls lead the way: Centering Black women-led funds to lead social justice efforts
By Monique Couvson and Tynesha McHarris Black women and girls, femmes, and gender-expansive youth of color deserve abundant investments in supporting our liberated futures. Tragically, philanthropy has always underfunded us. In 2018, just $15 million out of almost $428 billion in philanthropic giving in the United States reached Black women and girls. That means less…
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