Announcing Our Indiegogo Online Campaign!
Dear Friends…I hope you are well! Ithings 2 Collard Greens, the summer program for girls, I founded two years ago is excited to announce our indiegogo online campaign! To those who have given over the years THANK YOU! Please pass this on to your friends and let them...WHAT A FUN(D)-RAISER!!!
Our third annual fundraiser was a SMASHING SUCCESS!!! The benefit concert featuring Corcoran Holt and Friends along with Master See was a standing room only affair held at the Kingsbury Center on 14th Street, NW on Sunday, February 9 from 3:00 to 6:00 pm. This shall...Arts For Our Children Inc. Benefit Fund Raiser, Sunday 2/9/14, for iThings2CollardGreens Girls Programs
Arts For Our Children Inc. iThings2CollardGreens girls Fund Raiser is to help benefit our upcoming 3rd Summer Enrichment program for girls 5 to 13 years of age. This benefit will feature Jazz Bassist Corcoran Holt and Friends. Corcoran is the son of Kathy English...iThings 2 Collard Greens Version 2.0
Today, July 1, 2013, kicked off iThings 2 Collard Greens Version 2.0. . With 50 girls and 20 counselors we began another summer exploration into the life of today’s girls becoming tomorrow’s women. Opening circle of song-singing, meditation, movement and sharing...OH HAPPY DAY!!!
We are excited to announce that Arts For Our Children, Inc. has once again been awarded the DC Children’s Youth Investment Trust grant for iThings 2 Collard Greens 2013 Summer Camp for Girls!!! This grant allows girls ages 5-12 in Wards 4 and 5 to...In Memory of Nannie Helen Burroughs
Nannie Helen Burroughs
(May 2, 1879 – May 20, 1961)
was an African American educator, orator, religious leader, and businesswoman. She gained national recognition for her 1900 speech "How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping," at the National Baptist Convention.
Burroughs created a creed of racial self-help through her program of the three Bs-the Bible, the bath, and the broom. The Bible, the bath, and the broom stood for a clean life, a clean body, and a clean house. She believed domestic work should be professionalized and even unionized.
Burroughs trained her students to become respectable employees by becoming pious, pure, and domestic, but not submissive. She emphasized the importance of being proud black women to all students, by teaching African-American history and culture through a required course in the Department of Negro History.