National Council of Negro Women / San Gabriel Valley Section NCNW Inc

Entrepreneurism, Financial Literacy and Economic Empowerment: During FY2021, NCNW again expanded its economic empowerment efforts by adding a second webinar series, Millennial Entrepreneurs (ME!) aimed at women under the age of fifty. More than 15,000 women and men took advantage of WEP and ME! during 2021, which are funded by The Coca Hands on Banking, an opCola Foundation, Comcast and Wells Fargo Foundation.en source financial literacy product of the Wells Fargo Foundation.

STEAM Education: HBCU STEAM Forum is becoming a staple NCNW program, combining hands-on scientific experiments for youth in grades 3-12 with financial aid information for parents, on-the-spot college applications, exposure to career professionals in STEAM and higher education opportunities at historically black institutions. HBCU STEAM Forum has been piloted successfully in Greenville, SC, and Atlanta , reaching more than 3500 participants since 2016 and will soon expand to other regions.

Health Disparities: As part of "All of Us", NCNW volunteers in partnership with the Delta Research and Education Fund (DREF), travel to cities across the country helping the public understand the critical connection between research and medical therapies precisely designed to be effective in every community. NIH recently awarded a second year of funding to DREF as a national community partner with the NIH "All of Us" Research Program, of which NCNW is a proud sub-grantee.