2023 w+GRA Impact report
2022 W+GRA IMPACT REPORT
MOBILIZE
- W+GRA Seed Grants – Six Seed Grants were awarded to researchers in the amount of $5,000 during the 2021-2022 academic year. These projects aligned with the Alliances priorities that emerged from the 2021 Women’s Summit – Recovery and Discovery:
Women + Girls in a Dual Pandemic, March 10, 2021.
- Healing and Housing During Covid: Formerly Incarcerated Women Share their Stories
- Fostering Early STEM Exploration with Gifted/High Ability Black Girls and their Elementary Teachers
- Identifying Mechanisms of Employment Socialization in Mother-Child Dyads
- Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on the Economic Growth and Mobility among Women in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area
- Keepin’ it REEL: Black Girls Film Camp – Phase II
- “We All We Got”: Supporting Home Insecure Black Mothers Summit
- 2020-2021 Seed Grant Recipients
- Keepin’ It REEL: Black Girls Film Camp
- Pulling Others in to Push the Word Out: Developing the Paper Chase Virtual Training Model for Research Dissemination
- Pandemic & Peripartum: Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Wellbeing of First-time Moms in North Carolina
- Reducing Hypertension and Hypertension Risk in Black women using a Simple Handgrip Exercise Training Program
EQUIP
- Building Organizational Capacity
- Completed Phase I Girl Scouts Hornets’ Nest Logic Model and Evaluation Plan (2020)
- W+GRA secured $30,000 to continue with Phase II of Girl Scouts Hornets’ Nest Logic Model and Evaluation Plan to develop the Evaluation Plan with the Urban Institute (2020-2021)
- The W+GRA secured a $15,000 grant from EmpowHERment to redesign their educational curriculum that aligns with a social justice model. (2022)
- Building partnerships with growing and established grassroots organizations
- She Built This City
- Pink Mentor Network
- Dottie Rose Foundation
- Girls on the Run Greater Charlotte
- The Girl Talk Foundation
- Women’s Intercultural Exchange
- Women’s Business Center of Charlotte
- EmpowHERment
- Girl Scouts Hornets’ Nest Council
- Disability Law Center, Boston MA
- Camino Community Center
- Bilingual Brown Babies
- Junior Achievement of the Carolinas, Inc.
- I Am Not the Media, Inc.
- The Point Center, LLC. and the College Preparatory leadership Academy of High Point
- YWCA Central Carolinas
- Komen Foundation Charlotte, NC
- Safe Alliance
- Hope Vibes, Inc.
- Dream Key Partners
- National Coalition of 100 Black Women Queen City Metropolitan Chapter
CONVENE
- Civic Partnerships with Ally Bank and Bank of America to sponsor the 2021 Summit
- $10,000 from each financial institution
- The March 10, 2021 Virtual Women’s Summit. Recovery and Discovery: Women + Girls in a Dual Pandemic
- The W+GRA successfully completed four virtual Research and Practice Discussions 2021-2022
- Pathways to Economic Empowerment: Entrepreneurship – March 16, 2022
- Prioritizing Women’s Health During COVID-19 – October 20, 2021 ($1800 HERFF grant)
- Supporting Our Girls During the Pandemic – September 15, 2021
- Addressing the She-Cession: Getting Women Back to Work – August 18, 2021
- In 2020, the W+GRA hosted four Research and Practice discussions leading up to the March 2021 Summit:
- Black Girlhood and Educational Narratives: A Back to School Discussion – September 8, 2020
- Breast Cancer and Women’s Health – October 13, 2020
- Intimate Partner Violence – November 10, 2020
- Women in Public Service Leadership – December 8, 2020
- Girls, Technology, and the Social Determinants of Health -January 2021
- I Am Queen Charlotte Event, March 2022
- Queens Café in partnership with EmpowHERment, The Girl Talk Foundation, Women + Gender Studies, Center for the Study of the New South
- Co-partnered with Women + Gender Studies to sponsor Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans, Full Professor and Director of the Institute for Women. Gender, and Sexuality studies at Georgia State university for a virtual workshop addressing the health and well-being of women with a specific focus on yoga practices.
- Invited Speaker
- Ebony Magazine, National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Queen City Chapter, Black Women’s Health Imperative, “Our Health, Our Community: Mobilizing for the Survival of Black Women Beyond Covid19, July 2020
- YWCA – Y Women Vote, August 2020
- Democracy NC – When She Votes, August 13 and August 20, 2020
- Women’s Impact Fund – Enough is Enough Already: The Imbalances of 2020 & The Impact on the Futures of Working Women, November 2020
- National Coalition of 100 Black Women Queen City Chapter, When & Where I Enter, Advocacy Training, November 2021
- Panelist – Building A Dream Team: The Importance of Social Capital. Foundation for the Carolinas
- Speaker – Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium
- Presenter - Leadership Across Generations: How Music Offers Insight into Leadership Strategies. Executive Leadership Workshop for Leadership & Community Engagement Office UNC Charlotte (March 2022)
- I Am the Daughter of Project, March 2022
- Gathering stories, songs, poems from women celebrating influential women in their lives
- Posted on W+GRA site. Project completed by W+GRA Graduate Research Assistant Ashley Wilson
- UNC Charlotte Departmental Connections
- Center for Counseling and Psychological Services
- Department of Social Work
- Center for the Study of the New South
- Department of Women + Gender Studies
- Belk College of Business
- Department of Language and Culture Studies
- College of Computing and Informatics