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Hello Everyone! We are running headfirst into the new year and our girls are doing great!  On January 10th BGM hosted a lock-in at Beatty recreation center. With games, dancing, and great bonding, the girls had a blast! We hope that this fun experience created lasting bonds and long lasting relationships. Special thanks to our volunteers and leaders who made sure the young ladies had a fun and safe time. Mark your calendars! BGM is hosting it's first Girls Conference on April 18, 2020, at the Martin De Porres center. Join us as we provide workshops with some of Columbus' leading women ready to pour knowledge into our young ladies. More details coming soon! If you are interested in volunteering with Brown Girls Mentoring, contact us for more info! 
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Brown Girls Have 2020 Vision!1/8/2020  The year of 2019 ended on an extremely positive note! Our Brown Girls are as pumped as ever about our programs and love how we are stepping outside of our comfort zone. Last year we had an amazing Mother's Day Brunch, increased Brown Girls enrollment and received several awards for the work that we have been doing in the community. With so many good things happening, what can Brown Girls mentoring do next? Well, on January 4th we had an amazing fundraiser at Chipotle and we received so much love and support from the community. Our volunteers and mentors were amazing with the guests and even several of our Brown girls stopped by to show their support. We want to say thank you to Chipotle, our mentors, volunteers, and community who came out and supported our cause. This coming weekend we will be hosting our first Lock-in and we look forward to the games and fun that will be had by all! It's important that our girls not only focus on growth and being the best versions of themselves that they can be, but that they also have fun with their peers. This year, Brown Girls Mentoring is looking forward to growing our family as well as venturing into new territory as we continue our year of development. Keep a lookout for our upcoming Brown Girls Digital magazine, set to be released on January 15th, 2020.
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Brown Girls Think Big!6/25/2019 Hello all! We have some exciting updates in today's blog, and we cannot wait to show you what our Brown Girl volunteers and mentees have been working on! On June 15th, our volunteers met with several of our current and future Brown Girls to discuss how we can improve our Brown Girls Mentoring program. Held at the Martin Luther King branch at 10:30 am, a light breakfast was served to help wake us up and get the mental juices flowing.  It is vital that we not only share our various areas of knowledge and skills but we should also make sure we are listening to their voices. To be a successful youth organization, we must understand what is essential to our Brown Girls and keep them engaged. Too often adults are so busy teaching our youth, that we do not take the chance to listen to them. By listening, we can catch critical issues that they are facing versus what we think is going on. Armed with sticky notes, markers, and a dry erase board, we selected several categories as our topics of discussion. We wanted to know what our Brown Girls hoped to get out of this program that was explicitly designed for them.  Our current girls were familiar with our mentors and were quick to jump in with ideas to improve the program. They didn't hesitate to provide thoughtful feedback from the current Brown Girls Mentoring program. Although our future girls were not as familiar with the program like our vets, they still offered fresh ideas that we had not thought about previously. We were so impressed with the girls' ideas that we left reinvigorated for the upcoming year! The input from the ladies covered a myriad of subjects; One young lady wanted mentors who didn't "talk at" the girls but instead would "talk to" the girls. Another Brown Girl wanted a safe space to share issues that may be affecting them. We even had one Brown Girl who loved the idea of self-care from our previous sessions and encouraged us to have a 'spa day.' We thank all the young ladies who came out and participated in our Brown Girls Think Tank session. We can't wait to see you in our regular program this upcoming school year!  Mark your calendars! We are preparing for our Back 2 School Glow Up event on Sunday, August 18th, 2019! We welcome school supplies as donations for the youth in our community. Backpacks, notebooks, pencils, pens, and more are appreciated. We would love to send our youth back to school with hearts full of love and bags full of supplies. If you would like to donate to our Back 2 School event, please contact us here or email us at browngirlsmentoring614@gmail.com. You can also visit the location of any of our partners to leave your donation in the boxes provided. If you would like to become a volunteer, please contact us here! We are waiting for you ;) Miss Champagne BSingle Gal Advocate Miss Champagne B is a writer and blogger for The Single Gal Guide and focuses on positivity and growth. She is the author of 20 Ways to Kickstart Your Path to Improvement which is currently available on Amazon.com. Champagne B. enjoys meeting new people and volunteering with young women. She currently lives in Columbus, Oh with her pitbull, Kiba.
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The Queens Came Out To Celebrate!5/15/2019  This past weekend was the 2nd Annual Generations of a Queen Mother's Day Brunch! The sold-out event was held at the Martin De Porres Center in Columbus, Ohio. It was so beautiful to see all of the mothers and daughters come out to enjoy a beautiful day full of music, words of encouragement, and of course the Brown Girl Mentoring experience.
Before we sat down, we were blessed by several performances and awards from some of our biggest supporters. Guest speaker Tammy Fournier Alaada graced the stage with words of encouragement and empowerment, while our Brown Girls Dance team stepped up and showed out!
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 Mrs. LaTanya Settles and Mrs. Latonyia Perez Lyshe of Forever Free Fitness |  The student chapter of the Association of Black Social Workers and the Alumni Society of the College of Social Work from the Ohio State University. |
We will also be blessed by the presence of the student chapter of the Association of Black Social Workers and the Alumni Society of the College of Social Work from the Ohio State University. They will share information regarding available community resources and provide lunch to our girls.
As we continue to keep the good vibes moving, we will be visited by the Co-Found of Femergy, Maylin Sanchez. She will be a speaker for our session on Saturday, April 27, discussing the importance of Resiliency in today's world. After our regular sessions, there will be practice for our Brown Girls dance team members on April 13th and April 27th from 2 pm to 4 pm.
Although April is very busy, we look forward to our most significant event of the year.
Our mothers play an essential part in our lives, and we relish the idea of celebrating their spirits. This coming May, we are excited about our 2nd Annual Generations of A Queen Mother's Day Brunch. This year we are so happy to partner with Mrs. Brandy Jackson of Silver Confetti Events!
We look forward to this fantastic event and would love for each of you to come out and help us celebrate those who made a tremendous impact on our lives. Tickets are on sale now and are available for purchase from our Brown Girls volunteers or online.
As we continue to keep the good vibes moving, we will be visited by the Co-Found of Femergy, Maylin Sanchez. She will be a speaker for our session on Saturday, April 27, discussing the importance of Resiliency in today's world. After our regular sessions, there will be practice for our Brown Girls dance team members on April 13th and April 27th from 2 pm to 4 pm.
Although April is very busy, we look forward to our most significant event of the year.
Our mothers play an essential part in our lives, and we relish the idea of celebrating their spirits. This coming May, we are excited about our 2nd Annual Generations of A Queen Mother's Day Brunch. This year we are so happy to partner with Mrs. Brandy Jackson of Silver Confetti Events!
We look forward to this fantastic event and would love for each of you to come out and help us celebrate those who made a tremendous impact on our lives. Tickets are on sale now and are available for purchase from our Brown Girls volunteers or online.
As we maintain our focus on empowering Brown Girls, we are also very proud to have been recognized for our continuous efforts within our program. On behalf of the Brown Girls Mentoring Organization, Our lovely Co-Founder Jamie Blunt accepted the Presidents Award from the Central Ohio National Association of Negro Business and Professional Woman's Club. We are proud to have a fantastic leader who loves and support, not only our Brown Girls but the volunteers who support the program. We thank her for her tireless efforts in expanding the Ohio chapter of Brown Girls Mentoring and look forward to future endeavors. Congratulations Mrs. Jamie!
If you or anyone you know are interested in partnering or volunteering with the Brown Girls Mentoring programs, please email us at browngirlsmentoringprogram614@gmail.com.
Miss Champagne B
Single Gal Advocate Miss Champagne B is a writer and blogger for The Single Gal Guide. She focuses on positivity and growth. Learning to navigate the mean streets of being single, Miss Champagne B has learned how to not only be okay with it, but most importantly learn to live her life and "do what feels right." Born and raised in Columbus, Ohio Champagne earned her MBA from Tiffin University in Business Management with a focus on Human Resources. She is the author of 20 Ways to Kickstart Your Path to Improvement which is currently available on Amazon.com. She has made an appearance in the movie "The Detroit Boys" and moonlights as a script writer. Champagne enjoys meeting new people and volunteering with young women and currently lives in Columbus, Oh with her pitbull, Kiba.
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Black history month brought some historic changes to the Brown Girls Mentoring program.
Gettin' Creative With Our Brown Girls
3/15/2019
Black history month brought some historic changes to the Brown Girls Mentoring program.
Brown Girls Mentoring is all about introducing our lovely young ladies to new experiences and opportunities. On February 16th, we launched the first of many creative art sessions with our brown girls, and it was a hit! We had several of our Brown Girl mentors sow seeds of creativity into our young ladies in the form of visual arts, dance, and poetry.
We were ecstatic to see our beautiful brown girls inspired by our leadership team's creative arts activities and did not hesitate to jump in and participate. Our leaders encouraged our brown girls to create collages of images that inspired them. Armed with scissors, magazines, and ideas, there was plenty of buzz in the room with the girls learning what it means to be inspired and sharing their individual inspirations. Next, the brown girls got off their seats to move their feet with a choreographed dance led by Tifani Kendrick.
We were even blessed to have one of our brown girls recite the classic Still I Rise, poem by the legendary Maya Angelou. Needless to say, the creative arts workshop was a blast! With a fantastic leadership team to support the creative art lessons, we are looking forward to what they will come up with next.
We knew that this session would be fun and different than our regular Brown Girl Saturday sessions. However, we were still pleasantly surprised by the abundance of excitement and positive feedback from our leaders, our brown girls, and their parents.
Creative arts are often the first subjects to be cut due to limited budgets within the school system. In spite of the numerous studies that have been conducted reflecting the tremendous benefits of the creative arts, our brown girls often do not have adequate resources to nurture their creative sides.
The creative arts is essential because it helps expand cognitive skills, critical thinking, and encourages the ability to better express themselves. In fact, many of our future jobs will require creative thinking skills to be successful in the professional world. The more we expose our brown girls to the creative arts, the better their future opportunities will be.
As we grow our Brown Girl Mentoring network, the creative arts session will be a regular staple in our mentoring curriculum. Our creative arts sessions will also prep our brown girls for our upcoming Annual Mother's Day Brunch scheduled for this coming May.
Our Brown Girls Mentoring sessions are held every 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Saturday of the month from 12pm-2pm. We encourage you to contact us if you are interested in being a mentor or would like to recommend a brown girl to our program.
Special thanks to our Brown Girl Volunteers Tifani Kendrick, Raven Elizabeth, Miss Katt, and Mr. Larmark Crosy (our new Creative Arts team member) for volunteering their time for our creative arts workshop. You guys are such a treasure, and we are very blessed to have you within our program, and in the lives of our brown girls.
Stay tuned for more information about our Annual Mother's Day Brunch.
Miss Champagne B
Single gal Advocate Miss Champagne B is a writer and blogger for The Single Gal Guide and focuses on positivity and growth. Learning to navigate the mean streets of being single, Miss Champagne B has learned how to be okay with it and most importantly learn to live her life and "do what feels right."Born and raised in Columbus,Ohio she earned her MBA from Tiffin University in Business Management with a focus on Human Resources. She is the author of "20 Ways to Kickstart Your Path to Improvement" currently available on Amazon.com. She has made an appearance in the movie "The Detroit Boys" and moonlights as a script writer. She enjoys meeting new people and volunteering with young women and currently lives in Columbus, Oh with her pitbull, Kiba.