Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Brown Girls Mentoring, a non-profit entity, in support of the organization’s youth programming.
Brown Girls Mentoring was founded in 2016 with a mission to equip Brown Girls with tools to build their self-confidence, develop relationships, resolve conflict, make wise decisions, work in teams, and develop practical life skills. The program educates Brown Girls through lectures, trainings, activities, simulations, role play, and affirmations. Brown Girls Mentoring aims to empower young Brown Girls in all shades of beauty to know their worth, strive for excellence, and to embrace their natural beauty.
To help the Black girls in low resource areas of Columbus, Brown Girls Mentoring focuses on leadership development for Black Girls ages 5-16. The goal of the leadership development program is designed to:
· help Black Girls find their voices
· teach them how to withstand adversity and challenges
· introduce them to Black female leaders and change-agents who are making their communities better
· promote creative ways to make changes in their communities
Emergency action is necessary to provide immediate assistance to youth in need.
Fiscal Impact: Funding is available within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund.
Title
To authorize the City Clerk to enter into a grant agreement with Brown Girls Mentoring in support of the organization’s youth programming; to authorize an appropriation and expenditure within the Neighborhood Initiatives subfund; and to declare an emergency. ($40,000.00)
Body
WHEREAS, Brown Girls Mentoring was founded in 2016 with a mission to equip Brown Girls with tools to build their self-confidence, develop relationships, resolve conflict, make wise decisions, work in teams, and develop practical life skills; and
WHEREAS, the program educates Brown Girls through lectures, trainings, activities, simulations, role play, and affirmations; and
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