Program areas at National Coalition of 100 Black Women
Golden Girls Tea The Bridging the Generations tea is an annual event that recognizes eight phenomenal women that have enriched all of our lives and distinguished themselves within the communities. Their work exemplifies our organizations vision as force for gender equity, our mission of adovocating leadership development and our values of living and modeling all critical to the sucess of women and girls of color. The tea is used as a learning for training for our job training program which provides year round job readiness instruction to underserved, low income and unemployed participants residing in San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties. The majority of our program participants have limited education, few skills and lack strong ethics that are necessary to hold a job. During the course of a year, we aid in developing and fostering educational values, leadership, strength, self-esteem, goal orientation and confidence in ones
Financial Literacy Program Doris Ward Workforce Development Program - 1 Obtain shilss relevent to one of the citys most primary industries, tourism though its connection to thefood/hospitality industries 2 Improve the citys overall economic condition and 3 Worktoward individual self-sufficiency. The Doris Ward Workforce Development/Job Training Program is an exemplary model for driving equitable pathways to good paying jobs and to addressing challenges to diversity and inclusion in the lives of San Francio Bay area Black Women. Sister-Nomic - Program for the unbanked and underbanked black female. The program provides free in-person classroom and web-based education in the ares of financial education, first-time home-ownership and one 90 mintue webinar in the areas of financial education, first-time home-owenership or small business education. The goal is to improve outcomes for Californias
Education Program Saving The Dream, Inc. African American Rites of Passage is designed to address the African cultral milestones, academic, and social values of middle school/high school mentees of African American and multi-cultral students of african desent. Our scholars will be able to connect with thier powerful history, literature, and folklore of theexperiences of African Americans and African People in the western hemisphere. The Rite of PassageProgram provides enrichment, experience, and opportunitie and functions as a catalyst and supportsystem for Mentees aspiring to achievea higer degree of personal confidence, self-empowerment,positive self-image and community leadership involment.The core of this program is to assit each Mentee in the developmet of thier acdemic achievements, cultral, and socia skills necessary for thier indiidual sucess.