Rise Sister Rise has changed her name!
Welcome to Black Girl Rising, Inc. In order to incorporate as an official organization so that we can do more to “Place Black Girls At Promise”, we changed our name. We are now a not-for-profit 501.C3 organization with tax-deductible status. Our Vision, our Mission, and our work with Black girls have not changed.
We thank you for your continued support.
After a year of brainstorming, discussions, and research, our Black Girl Rising Inc. Black Girl Think Tank created The “I Am Good Enough”
Campaign to raise awareness and educate our community about 6 areas of concern for black girls including colorism, bullying, depression, LGBTQ+, body image, and self-defense.
Become a REAL WOMAN for Black girls!
REAL Women is a supportive arm of Black Girl Rising Inc. We provide annual financial contributions so that the Black Girl Rising Inc. Committee can continue to provide programming and events for Black girls in our community. As REAL Women, we are making a statement about our priorities, interests, and how we spend our dollars to support efforts we believe in, such as Placing Black Girls at Promise!
About BGR Inc. Research
Evaluating the African American Girls’ Experience of Trauma and Resiliency in Ohio’s Communities is a journey towards academic success and positive socialization for African American girls. There are approximately 201,000 African American girls living in Ohio; the majority residing in metropolitan areas.
Research suggests that urban African American girls are significantly exposed to more traumatic stressors than children of other racial groups. The Black Girl Rising Research Project is designed to explore the ways in which urban adolescent African American girls experience their world and the ways in which they are affected by those experiences. Frances Curtis Frazier, M.A. is the principal investigator and research partner with the Ohio Department of Mental Health which provided original funding for the research project.
Fran Frazier, MA (Principal Investigator)
Thank you for your interest in Placing Black girls at Promise! We look forward to working with you as, together, we help our girls navigate their way toward resiliency. Every day I enter a school building, walk through a mall, look out my car window as I drive, I see a Black girl and wonder about her. Is she at promise or at risk? Our approach to this work is unique. We collected data and shared the results. Through the local networks created, we are building a collective community enhancing the strengths and addressing challenges revealed in the data. Black Girl Rising Inc™ and the work of others suggest that Black girls living in urban areas are exposed to more traumatic stressors than other children. We want the lives of Black girls to reflect collective work and responsibility by their families, communities, leaders, and government. Placing Black girls at promise means we talk to girls, those at risk and those who are doing well. We ask the hard questions that may not be “any of our business” but we ask them because we want them to be “placed at promise.”