THOSE WE HELP
Celebrating Our Girls 2024
Recipients of the Dr. Jowava Morrow Book Scholarship received their scholarships during an in person ceremony on May 18, 2024. Host Christian Herald presented the scholarships during the Celebrating Our Girls Awards program.
Celebrating Our Girls 2023
Recipients of the Dr. Jowava Morrow Book Scholarship received their scholarships during a ceremony on May 17, 2023. Host Patrica Williams presented the scholarships during the Celebrating Our Girls Awards program.
2022 Community Grant Awarded to Pink Rocki Advocacy Foundation
FCPSF awards a Community Grant every two years to a non-profit community-based organizations that implement projects directly benefiting young girls and teen women.
The Pink Rocki Advocacy Foundation ( PRAF ) teaches self-care to young women moving to independence by increasing their self-awareness, cultivating their self-care habits, and promoting self-advocacy.
The PRAF utilized the funding to create a safe space, The Wellness Circle for Girls, where young women can have authentic, open, and trusted conversations about life, its joys, and challenges. This initiative and other programs are meant to provide what is needed and deserved in this changing and often-challenging world.
Celebrating Our Girls 2022
Host Jotaka Eaddy presented the awards during the Celebrating Our Girls Awards virtual ceremony on May 18, 2022.
Celebrating our girls 2021
Recipients of the Dorothy Mae Lee Williams Journalism, Media and Communications Scholarship and Dr. Jowava Morrow Book Scholarship received their awards and scholarship during a virtual ceremony on June 16, 2021. Host Jotaka Eaddy presented the award and scholarships during the Celebrating Our Girls Awards program.
2020 Awards Ceremony
Recipients of the Dr. Jowava Morrow Book Scholarship received their scholarships during a virtual ceremony on June 17, 2020. Yaminah Leggett-Wells, daughter and family representative of Dr. Jowava Morrow, presented the scholarships during the 2020 Awards Ceremony.
2020 Community Grant Awarded to Victory Youth Center
FCPSF awards a Community Grant every two years to a non-profit community-based organizations that implement projects directly benefiting young girls and teen women.
The Victory Youth Center received 7 desktop computers for use in their youth center to advance the educational and aspirational growth of their community.
Celebrating Our Girls 2019
Recipients of the Dr. Jowava Morrow Book Scholarship received their scholarships during an in person ceremony in June 2019 . Yaminah Leggett-Wells, daughter and family representative of Dr. Jowava Morrow, presented the scholarships during the Celebrating Our Girls program.
2018 COMMUNITY GRANT Awarded to access youth
FCPSF awards a Community Grant every two years to a non-profit community-based organizations that implement projects directly benefiting young girls and teen women.
Access Youth, Inc. aims to curb the school-to-prison pipeline through early intervention focused on three critical points along this spectrum: When students are truant from school, have behavior issues that could result in suspension from school and when young people are arrested for first-time, low-level offenses. Access Youth will be using the grant to expand its programs targeting at risk teen girls.
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Kay Henley, Chairperson Federal City Public Service Foundation (FCPSF) presenting the 2018, $10,000 Community Grant check to Access Youth, Board of Directors' Treasurer Robert McVearry, Executive Creative Director, O2 Lab, Inc.
2016 Community Grant Awarded to EduSeed
FCPSF awarded its first grant in the amount of $10,000 to the EduSeed organization to support their SisterMentors program. The grant aligns with the mission of FCPSF. Access the press release for more details.