2015-07-11T17:27:24-07:00 2014-12-31 Pamela R Ross CPA 22739 Federalist Road Calabasas CA 913024809 990 2014-01-01 954624707 BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS BLAC 3232905955 PO BOX 292516 LOS ANGELES CA 90029 JANETTE ROBINSON FLINT Executive Director 2015-07-11 true Pamela R Ross P00034695 8182228581 X 2014 2016-02-25 16:41:14Z 537169 false false X WWW.BWWLA.ORG X 1997 CA BWW mission strategies include sharing communication between health care professionals, grassroots leadership and community advocates, implementing cultural and gender appropriate programs, publishing health education materials, research and validation of effective prevention strategies, documenting new health trends impacting well being, and being an active listening voice concerning the health status of Black women 6 6 14 87 0 345722 467120 57774 70049 0 0 403496 537169 0 0 216164 359071 0 35801 177589 122101 393753 481172 9743 55997 58518 114841 4375 4701 54143 110140 Black Women for Wellness is a woman centered grassroots community based organization, on a mission to enhance the health and well being of African American and Black women and girls. false false 372394 Sisters @ Eight Sisters @ Eight, held on the 2nd Friday of the month, brought a wealth of information to the community to help empower, mobilize, and organize toward advocacy. More than 213 women and men participated with Sisters @ Eight this year plus a total of 40 speakers presenting at 12 monthly meetings held over 2014 year. Sisters in Motion Kitchen DivasBWW partnered with UMMA Clinic, Essence of Light, My Friends House, Kaiser Permanents Community Benefit, SEIU-ULTCW and LA Care. For the year of 2014, SIM has performed 169 cooking demonstration (Kitchen Divas) with over 500 participants who were able to taste new recipes, observe food demonstrations and hear health education messages on the intersection of food and health status. Sisters in Motion Urban Chefs Academy (Kitchen Divas)In December 2014, BWW in partnership with Community Health Council afterschool food youth clubs. Continuing the goals of Kitchen Divas, the program teaches nutrition and health through food preparation, education, awareness and policy. Providing an in-depth look at our attitudes and practices, food culture and access to food, Urban Chefs Academy creates youth leaders and advocates who will positively impact the health of our families and communities. BWW served 4 sites in total located on Los Angeles Unified School District middle and high schools.Sisters in Motion National Diabetes Prevention ProgramBWW in partnership with the Black Womens Health Imperative continued Year 2 of Change Your Lifestyle. Change Your Life. program as part of the Center of Disease Controls National Diabetes Prevention Program, working with community centers and with employers to offer lifestyle coaching and health education to prevent type 2 diabetes at the work site. We also allowed persons with diabetes to audit the class. We conducted 142 classes and served 118 unduplicated participants in 2014.Sisters With Options Covered CA/Affordable Care Act. BWW in partnership with the California Black Health Network and the California Community Foundation program is dedicated to increasing knowledge and public awareness of information important to our health choices. Our outreach and education efforts extended throughout Los Angeles at major community events, health fairs, churches and through workshops and canvassing. BWW coordinated or participated in 81 community events, outreaching to over 12,000 and educating 5,930 community members for a total of 18,000 served in 2014.Black Women for Wellness partners with a number of coalitions including California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom, Reproductive Justice Coalition of Los Angeles Having Our Say Coalition, Women for Health Care Reform, Black Agenda and California for A Health and Green Economy. Sisters With Options EPICS BWW conducted EPICS (Education Program to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screenings) among African Americans in partnership with Georgetown Regent University. 40 participants attended EPICS workshops in 2014.Sisters in Control Reproductive JusticeSisters in Control Reproductive Justice (SCRJ) served a wide base in 2014, mostly black women and girls ages 14 - 85. In total, through direct impact we served 1650 black women and girls. Indirectly, through legislation efforts we impact millions of women through helping pass anti-sterilization legislation and flame retardant labeling legislation. Environmental JusticeBWW conducted a research study outreaching over 63 community hair stylists, beauty professionals and nail technicians to look at use of chemicals in beauty products and possible health effects/issues and completing 22 surveys. Trained 5 beauty stylists on how to create green salons.We outreached to over 500 community members with informational postcards. BWW published Black Going Green guidebook, a summary of the most utilized chemicals that community members are exposed to in beauty, personal and cleaning products. Black Going Green is available online. We also wrote and released #teamnatural - The Black Hair Revolution a report on our findings talking to black stylists and consumers about black hair.Civic Engagement and Voter Education Through our GOTV work we were able to reach over 10,000 people through voterpledge cards, mailings, phone calls and direct outreach to promote voting in the November 2014 mid-term elections. BWW conducted one phone banking and co-authored a reproductive justice report card on how state legislators are doing on RJ issues. BWW trained over 20 new reproductive justice advocates in 2014.Sexual Health and EducationLaunched Get Smart B4U Get Sexy campaign and website. This campaign goal is to foster healthier relationships in order to decrease the high sexually transmitted infection rate in California for Black youth. BWW also started a youth leadership council using a reproductive justice framework with young people from ages 15-19. Daughters and Sons in TechnologyBWW continued the Daughters And Sons In Technology (DASIT) project with two objectives: to promote and provide support to the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) pipeline by providing math and science peer to peer tutoring and mentoring to middle, high school and returning college students and provide BWW staff, members and volunteers workshops on technology to enhance the technical skills and utilization of software applications with completing organizational tasks. 44 youths and 8 staff members were served in 2014.Internet Quilt Social Media and Online ImpactsSocial media communication strategy garnered over 50,000 likes on Facebook in 2014 adding over 25,000 online contacts to last year likes, and have reached 700+ followers on Twitter, up 220 from last year. This year we continue to build Instragram and Tumblr and have added Pinterest to our strategies of outreach and communication on health and well being for Black women & girls. Our websites bwwla.com and bwwla.org visits are growing with more than 10K unique visitors each week. 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After resolving any questions or updates, the form will be presented to the board members to approve for filing with IRS. A board resolution is required in order for the Form 990 to be filed. The resolution is acknowledged by signing of the Board of Director's Acknowledgement of 990 Review form. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Explanation of Monitoring and Enforcement of Conflicts When BWW becomes aware of a situation, the Conflict of Interest policy is reviewed with the officer or employee. When we decide that there is a conflict, we discuss the situation and come up with a solution that might include resignation from the board. Form 990, Part VI, Line 19: Other Organization Documents Publicly Available DOCUMENTS ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.