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Sisterhood in 2012!

Angela D Coleman — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:26:04 GMT

Youth Extravaganza 2011

Funding was secured to serve 100 girls with sisterhood mentoring services in 2012.

Sisterhood Agenda is working with its Global Partners in California, Chicago, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Senegal, along with its other 3,000 Global Partners in 32 countries, to implement A Journey Toward Womanhood and other sisterhood mentoring programs for girls.

With local support and Global Giving donations, Sisterhood Agenda is recruiting for a sisterhood mentoring program serving 12 girls at Julius E. Sprauve School in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands starting February 2012.

The inaugural Global Sisterhood Conference is planned for November 2012 in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands with a large Global Girls focus. Sisterhood Agenda's Global Training Academy is based in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

In addition to individual presentations, workshops, and youth sessions, Sisterhood Agenda held the 2^nd annual Sisterhood/Brotherhood New Year’s Eve Youth Extravaganza in Cruz Bay. Over 50 young boys and girls were pre-registered for youth programs in 2012.

Community Partners included: VI Police Department, VI National Park, VI Department of Sports, Parks & Recreation, St. John Community Foundation, and UMOJA.

Corporate Partners included: The Westin, Boyson Transportation, Love City Ferries, Grande Bay, St. John Insurance Company, St. John Hardware, The Marketplace, Drift Away Spa, St. John Dental, Senator Barshinger’s Office, Shani’s Beauty Salon, Love City Barber Shop, St. John Ice Company, and PostNet.

Sisterhood Agenda instituted the Girl Band program, a Positive Media project that is implemented and filmed locally in the U.S. Virgin Islands and available in online reality series-based segments in 2012; http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/girl-band.

Putting Sisterhood on the Agenda

Angela D. Coleman — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:50:49 GMT

Ayana on her way to school

Dear Friend,

Ayana and other girls in St. John need your help.

Last year, Sisterhood Agenda registered Ayana and her friends for womanhood training at the New Year’s Eve Youth Extravaganza in Cruz Bay, St. John. Thanks to your help, she also attended the first Female Empowerment Conference for Girls in the Virgin Islands and received educational materials for the year. As a participant of A Journey Toward Womanhood, Positive Media, and Girl Band, Ayana is learning how to create her own future and be a poised, confident leader. Your contribution helped Ayana get access to a lifetime of learning about supporting and loving herself, developing healthy habits, and being successful. Thank you!

However, there are other girls who urgently need this type of support. On the small island of St. John, there is no public high school, women’s center, YWCA or Girl Scout chapter. Many girls, unable to see other alternatives, become pregnant at an early age, drop out of school, and rely on government support to feed themselves and their new families. Some girls need one-on-one mentoring and ways to express themselves positively.

On October 19th, GlobalGiving.org is matching at 30% all online donations up to $1,000 per donor per project! There is $100,000 available in matching funds on October 19th. Once these matching funds are used, no more matching funds will be applied.

Please donate to our project and support the girls waiting to be successful! Your help is urgently needed and much appreciated!

In the Spirit of Sisterhood,
Angela D. Coleman
President

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Getting Ready for Sisterhood 2012

Angela D Coleman — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 15:16:19 GMT

NEW OFFICE LOCATION
Sisterhood Agenda recently relocated its administrative office on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Now, the offices are much closer to town with easier access to services and St. Thomas.

SISTERHOOD GLOBAL CONFERENCE
Sisterhood Agenda’s inaugural global sisterhood conference is scheduled for November 2012 in St. Thomas. Monthly planning committee meetings are taking place via webinar to ensure representation and inclusion for a successful event. Currently, committee members can participate via telephone and/or using computers. Geographic representation for planning committee meetings included participants from the U.S., Uganda, Senegal, and India.

Sisterhood Agenda is hopeful about using technology for all of its global constituents to access both planning meetings and the annual conference event via videoconference.

The inaugural global sisterhood conference event is sure to be an exciting one with multi-general, global participation and local support.

SISTERHOOD PROGRAMS
Sisterhood Agenda held a Sisterhood/Brotherhood Career & Life Skills Training Summer Program in St. Thomas this past summer. The 4-week program, sponsored by the VI Department of Labor, engaged 13 youth who successfully completed the program. Activities included mentoring, debate, job fair participation, completing employment applications, interview skills, field trips, and guest speakers. Due to its success, Sisterhood Agenda plans to implement the program throughout the school year in local VI schools, collaborating with local nonprofits.

Sisterhood Agenda’s Sisterhood Empowerment Project includes A Journey Toward Womanhood and the Positive Media project.

A Journey Toward Womanhood
Sisterhood Agenda is coordinating local A Journey Toward Womanhood

Programming with support from the VI Department of Human Services. In addition, Sisterhood Agenda’s A Journey Toward Womanhood program was recommended for funding for implementation in the Virgin Islands starting 2012. Sisterhood Agenda continues to share its curriculum information with agencies around the globe for international program replication with local adaptation.

Positive Media
There are exciting developments with the creation of positive, new, alternative media that uplifts women and girls of African descent. Sisterhood Agenda is coordinating its Positive Media project with the organization’s webmaster, universities, nonprofit agencies of interest, and a media Global Partner located in the Washington, DC area, See Your Worth Productions. A completely new website is currently being constructed with an emphasis on Positive Media. Sisterhood Agenda is filming public service announcements, coordinating the Sisterhood Agenda Show, and creating other new media content. While the new website is completed, Sisterhood Agenda updates its YouTube site with new Positive Media content: www.youtube.com/sisterhoodagenda.

Lots of Activities for Women and Girls in the VI!

Angela Coleman — Fri, 13 May 2011 18:27:20 GMT

Office on Women's Health

Greetings! Please find updated information about Sisterhood Agenda's Sisterhood Empowerment Project, and Sisterhood Agenda’s Global Training Academy in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

PROJECT SUMMARY: PLEASE BECOME A FUNDER!
Sisterhood Agenda’s Sisterhood Empowerment Project is the only project of its kind: it is a large-scale, holistic, female-centered approach to empowering girls, young women, parents, and educators using proven programmatic strategies combined with cultural relevance and positive, alternative media, all implemented at the grassroots, community level. There are over 3,000 partner agencies that Sisterhood Agenda works with and the girls need our assistance.

NEW ACTIVITIES
The Sisterhood Agenda Global Training Academy held the following webinars: 1) Sisters: Healthy & Empowered, 2) Black is Beautiful, and 3) Modern Goddess.

Sponsored by the VI Department of Human Services, Sisterhood Agenda plans to train 10 Virgin Island-based nonprofits for A Journey Toward Womanhood implementation in May 2011. Sisterhood Agenda celebrated National Women’s Health Week May 9-May 13, 2011 with Sisters: Healthy & Empowered (SHE) in St. John.

Other Sisterhood Agenda accomplishments include:

¬ Sisterhood Community Meetings

¬ Global Training Academy launched

¬ First Annual Female Empowerment Conference for Girls (Department of Education)

¬ First Annual New Year’s Eve Youth Extravaganza

¬ A Journey Toward Womanhood implementation

¬ DVSAC Conference for Women & Girls: opening ceremony and workshop

¬ YWCA Yellow Elder Celebrating Women & Girls

¬ A Journey Toward Womanhood Training (Department of Human Services)

¬ Sisters: Healthy & Empowered (SHE) Weight Control, Health & Wellness

¬ Proposal for VI Schools (DOE), CDBG application

¬ Features: TV2, Graffiti Street WTJX, VI Daily News, St. John Source, St. John Tradewinds

¬ Global Sisterhood Conference-date TBA

Sisterhood Agenda is recruiting members for its Global Sisterhood Conference Planning Committee. Regular webinar meetings are held for this committee. Sisterhood Agenda is also recruiting volunteers to work with its Global Partners in the Virgin Islands.

Sisters: Healthy & Empowered (SHE)

More Girls Served and Training in 2011

Angela D Coleman — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:36:10 GMT

Youth Extravaganza Participants

Sisterhood Agenda served more girls in 2010 than at any other time in the organization’s 17-year history! Propelled by the launch of Sisterhood Agenda’s Global Training Academy, Sisterhood Agenda added 20 new Global Partners including several in the U.S. Virgin Islands where the Global Training Academy is located. Sisterhood Agenda also provided technical assistance and support services for over 1,200 girls, parents, and social service providers. Global Training activities for the last part of 2010 included:

September 29, 2010 Sisterhood Agenda Community Meeting in St. John

October 5, 2010 Free Webinar: Raising Healthy Black Girls

Hosted by www.sisterhoodagenda.com

October 21, 2010 Free Webinar: Sisters: Healthy & Empowered

Hosted at www.sisterhoodagenda.com

October 21, 2010 Take Back the Night in St. John

Franklin Park, Cruz Bay

November 9, 2010 Sisters In Business Empowerment Series I

Hosted at www.sisterhoodagenda.com

November 10, 2010 Sisters In Business Empowerment Series II

Hosted at www.sisterhoodagenda.com

November 18, 2010 VI Department of Education Conference for Girls in St. Thomas

Marriott Frenchman's Reef & Morning Star Beach Resort

December 31, 2010 Sisterhood/Brotherhood Agenda New Year’s Eve Youth Extravaganza in St. John

Cruz Bay, VI Housing Parks & Recreation Building

Sisterhood Agenda will hold its first accelerated A Journey Toward Womanhood program for girls during its Global Training Academy Summer Series July 2011. Teachers, mentors, and administrators can receive A Journey Toward Womanhood certification during Sisterhood Agenda’s first global sisterhood conference in November 2011.

In addition, Sisterhood Agenda is seeking funding for its innovative Positive Media campaign to teach girls how to use technology and media to create sustainable positive social change. Offering eBooks, creating a new website, opening a production studio in the U.S. Virgin Islands to produce new content, and revamping Sisterhood Agenda Magazine are some of the components of Positive Media.

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New Year's Eve Youth Extravaganza

New Global Training Academy in the USVI

Angela D Coleman — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:51:08 GMT

Angela D Coleman (right) & USVI Second Lady Cheryl

Putting Sisterhood On the Agenda

St John, VI—While Sisterhood Agenda’s Global Training Academy is new in the Virgin Islands, Sisterhood Agenda is an award-winning global nonprofit organization that was founded almost twenty years ago by Princeton graduate and Ashoka Fellow Angela D. Coleman, a resident of St. John. Serving over 5 million constituents each year with over 3,000 Global Partner agencies in 32 countries, Sisterhood Agenda’s new Global Training Academy in the U.S. Virgin Islands includes youth activities, programs, training sessions, workshops, and retreats, plus an expansion of its innovative online media and educational system.

“Sisterhood Agenda is here to empower women and girls in the Virgin Islands and around the world. Women, girls and service providers will come here for youth programs, training, workshops, retreats, and other educational activities that uplift and aid in the self-development of women and girls,” states Coleman, President. The agency creates and implements activities for women and girls with special emphasis on females of African descent who are historically at risk, traditionally underserved and marginalized. Sisterhood Agenda’s four empowerment principles are: sisterhood, self-knowledge, self-development, and self-esteem.

Many believe that this type of youth development is critical: “We have to pay attention because they are our next generation of leaders, teachers, and entrepreneurs. They need our guidance, protection, love and support so that they make good decisions for themselves and their communities. This is truly a community effort where everyone is invited to participate.”

Coleman’s vision is to establish the Academy as a boarding school for girls, but also as a training ground for parents, service providers and others interested in uplifting and supporting women and girls in their development.

In addition to the Sisterhood Agenda Global Training Academy, Sisterhood Agenda projects include:

Sisterhood Empowerment Project
A Journey Toward Womanhood
Positive Media
Sisters: Healthy & Empowered (SHE) Weight Control, Health & Wellness System
Sisters In Business

www.sisterhoodagenda.com.

Community Meeting in St John

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Exciting News About Sisterhood Agenda!

Angela D. Coleman — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:30:16 GMT

Sisterhood Among Friends

Greetings! Please find updated information about Sisterhood Agenda, Sisterhood Agenda’s Global Strategy, the Sisterhood Empowerment Project, Sisterhood Agenda’s Global Training Academy launch in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Sisterhood Agenda’s new website.

PROJECT SUMMARY: PLEASE BECOME A FUNDER! Sisterhood Agenda’s Sisterhood Empowerment Project is the only project of its kind: it is a large-scale, holistic, female-centered approach to empowering girls, young women, parents, and educators using proven programmatic strategies combined with cultural relevance and positive, alternative media, all implemented at the grassroots, community level.

NEW ACTIVITIES During the last two months, Sisterhood Agenda constructed and conducted a Global Strategy Survey and the results revealed the fact that the A Journey Toward Womanhood teen program is the most popular program. Results also indicted that constituents desire more positive media and online experiences, along with willingness and means to travel to the U.S Virgin islands. As a result, Sisterhood Agenda has planned future activities.

Sisterhood Agenda continually adds new Global Network members and new Global Partners to our ever-expanding community of sisters and those who support sisters. This year, Sisterhood Agenda continues to work with the local U.S. Virgin Islands government and local grassroots organizations to launch Sisterhood Agenda’s Global Training Academy. Currently, new partners are being identified and a benefit concert is planned to launch the Global Training Academy. New activities, available to everyone, are being planned in the Virgin Islands, coordinated with the benefit concert. These exciting activities will bring Sisterhood Agenda Global Partners together from all over the globe, something that they have been asking for during the last several years.

Sisterhood Agenda’s new website will be multimedia, participatory, and constantly changing with new content. It will also include online Global Training Academy activities such as empowerment programs, videos, blogs, talent identification and development. It’s exciting!

BACKGROUND Sisterhood Agenda is a global, award-winning nonprofit organization that was started in 1994 by Princeton graduate Angela D. Coleman. Sisterhood Agenda creates and implements activities for women and girls with special emphasis on females of African descent. Sisterhood Agenda addresses the social, health, economic and cultural issues of this historically at-risk and traditionally underserved target population.

Based in the United States, Sisterhood Agenda serves over 5 million constituents each year and has thousands of global partners in over 32 countries. Sisterhood resources are listed in the organization’s online Global Resource Directory.

Global Partners create an extensive sisterhood network to increase local organization capacity and empower girls and women to become agents for positive change around the globe. Next, look for Sisterhood Agenda Global Partners in Central and South American geographical areas.

#1 Sisters (featured in Sisterhood Agenda Magazine

An aspiring model

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See what Sisterhood Agenda does & join the movement!

Project Update May 2010

Angela D. Coleman — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:42:41 GMT

Gangs & Girls

Greetings! Please find updated information about Sisterhood Agenda, the Sisterhood Empowerment Project, and Sisterhood Agenda’s Global Training Academy.

PROJECT SUMMARY: PLEASE BECOME A FUNDER! Sisterhood Agenda’s Sisterhood Empowerment Project is the only project of its kind: it is a large-scale, female-centered approach to empowering girls, young women, parents, and educators using proven programmatic strategies combined with cultural relevance and positive, alternative media, all implemented at the grassroots, community level.

NEW ACTIVITIES Thank you for all of your support during the last 16 years. Sisterhood Agenda continually adds new Global Network members and new Global Partners to our ever-expanding community of sisters and those who support sisters. This year, Sisterhood Agenda continues to work with the local U.S. Virgin Islands government and local grassroots organizations to launch Sisterhood Agenda’s Global Training Academy in Winter 2010. These exciting activities will bring Sisterhood Agenda Global Partners together from all over the globe, plus includes an exciting online educational component.

Times are changing—fast. And we must change with them. Sisterhood Agenda's website is going to be redone! Thank you for your patience as we bring you: • NEW Sisterhood Agenda Internet portals; • NEW Sisterhood Agenda Global Training Academy activities in the Virgin Islands; • NEW programs and strategies that you can implement in your community; • NEW webinars and training opportunities; • NEW Sister Store merchandise; • NEW website content, articles, and pictures; • NEW ways to share relevant information and bond in the spirit of sisterhood. Sisterhood Agenda posted new material on its website including new EMPOWERMENT VIDEOS for inspiration.

Sisterhood Agenda recognizes that the most effective programs often operate at the grassroots level. Sisterhood Agenda's social impact is expanded through partnerships with agencies, individuals and businesses throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, and Africa. Global Partners create an extensive sisterhood network to increase local organization capacity and empower girls and women to become agents for positive change around the globe.

Women of African Descent

Sisterhood Agenda 2010 Year of the Goddess

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Sisterhood Agenda's Website

Update: February 2010

Angela D. Coleman — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:48:59 GMT

Greetings! Please find more information about Sisterhood Agenda, its Sisterhood Empowerment Project, and Global Training Academy below.

The Sisterhood Empowerment Project is a large part of making this vision a reality.

ACTIVITIES Many service providers have requested in-house training, education, and support. As a result, Sisterhood Agenda is in the U.S. Virgin Islands setting up its Global Training Academy. The Sisterhood Agenda Global Training Academy is a USVI-based learning center for training, resource-sharing, and knowledge. The Global Training Academy also includes an interactive Internet-based learning system component.

The first Global Training Academy gathering is a Sisterhood Unity Conference for Healing. The conference engages program participants, parents, project staff, partner agencies, and the general public. The Unity Conference provides Train the Trainer opportunities to increase the capacity of individuals and agencies working with youth and scale the strategy, thus increasing and expanding its impact. The Project provides unique opportunities for youth and educators to educate, entertain, empower, and support each other in the spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood. With its cultural enrichment, programming, media, public education, and learning modules, the Global Training Academy Sisterhood Unity Conference is a model for capacity-building and sustainability.

With support from Google and YouTube, Sisterhood Agenda Magazine has been converted to an online publication that is completely digital. The new online magazine format is:

*Visually attractive, interactive and fun *FREE for everyone *A green alternative to reduce paper and chemical consumption to save our environment *Distributed to Sisterhood Agenda's Global Network and Global Partners (over 5 million)

Sisterhood Agenda declared 2010 the Year of the Goddess. In addition to the magazine, Sisterhood Agenda will launch new multi-media services in 2010 that are participatory and promote the positive growth of global girls in sisterhood. These media services include new programs, webinars, videos, starter kits, and enhanced connections with Sisterhood Agenda Global Partners.

Everyone’s support has been tremendous! Thank you for putting Sisterhood on your Agenda and we look forward to bringing you more positive role models, inspirational stories and resources in the near future!

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New Progamming in the Caribbean!

Angela D. Coleman — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:17:52 GMT

Representatives of Sisterhood Agenda will be in the U.S. Virgin Islands during the months of July and August to pilot Sisterhood Agenda’s Sisterhood Empowerment Project in the Caribbean.

By the end of the year, the Sisterhood Agenda Empowerment project will be replicated in over 15 countries.

Future cultural exchanges are still planned for Central, South and Latin American territories, and India.

Sisterhood Agenda’s Positive Media will be expanded to include more online services for constituents.

Sisterhood Agenda’s President, Angela D. Coleman, was quoted about the need for self-love and the importance of critical thinking for girls in the August 2009 issue of ESSENCE magazine.

Impact data is being collected for this important global replication project.

Project Update March 2009

Angela D. Coleman — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:38:35 GMT

To date, Sisterhood Agenda has been able to successfully raise over $35,000 for the Sisterhood Empowerment Project. Demonstration projects for the United States, Caribbean, and Africa have been scheduled. However, full implementation of these projects is dependent upon funding. Future cultural exchanges are planned for Central, South and Latin American territories, and India.

Sisterhood Agenda would like to thank everyone for their support! Please feel free to join the sisterhood on Sisterhood Agenda’s social networking sites:

You don’t have to be a woman or girl of African descent to put Sisterhood on your Agenda: there are many ways to get involved. YOU can be an agent of positive social change! Visit www.sisterhoodagenda.com.

Ways to Be a Part of the Sisterhood Movement: •Join Sisterhood Agenda’s Global Network. •Order Sisterhood Agenda Magazine. •Become a Sisterhood Agenda Volunteer or Intern. •Start a sisterhood organization in your community. •Become a Global Partner. •Implement A Journey Toward Womanhood for girls. •Use teacher resources on the Teen Page and SisterGirl Page. •Register your business with Sisters In Business. •Submit your writing, pictures and graphics to Sisterhood Agenda Magazine and sisterhoodagenda.com. •Join the Street Team. •Become a Donor. •Become a Corporate Sponsor. •Spread the sisterhood!

Progress Report: December 2008

Angela D. Coleman — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:07:52 GMT

Sisterhood Agenda’s Sisterhood Empowerment Project is progressing well. Currently, Sisterhood Agenda has over 1,000 Global Partners in more than 30 countries. Sisterhood Agenda has been able to successfully raise over $20,000 for the Sisterhood Empowerment Project. New sites for project implementation include geographical areas in Texas, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Minneapolis, Indiana, South Carolina, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. New international sites include Honduras, St. Croix, Uganda, and London. Cultural exchanges are scheduled in 2009 for expansion into Central, South and Latin American territories.

Several new grant proposals have been submitted and individual donations have been received. Sisterhood Agenda would like to thank everyone for their support. With grant support from YouTube, Sisterhood Agenda released its first multi-media online version of Sisterhood Agenda Magazine in October 2008. New, participatory, alternative media is coming in 2009!

Sisterhood Agenda has created and updated its integrated websites to include friends, supporters, and contacts on: myspace, facebook, twitter, flickr, Just Means, YouTube, and its own site, www.sisterhoodagenda.com.

The new 2008-2009 public relations campaign focuses on Sisterhood Agenda as a grassroots movement for positive social change and collaboration is built into the model. You don’t have to be a woman or girl of African descent to put Sisterhood on your Agenda: there are many ways to get involved!

Progress Report

Angela D. Coleman — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:56:30 GMT

Sisterhood Agenda (www.sisterhoodagenda.com) was recently voted as the 2008 Black Web Award Winner in the category Best Site for Sistahs, beating essence.com and other nominated sites.

Sisterhood Agenda’s Sisterhood Empowerment project is progressing quickly with over 60 new Global Partners added since the new year began including partners in Canada, Uganda, Nigeria, Jamaica and throughout the United States. This brings the total number of Sisterhood Agenda Global Partners close to 1,000.

New sites for A Journey Toward Womanhood implementation include geographical areas in California, Florida, New Jersey, Ghana, and Nigeria. Several grant applications have been submitted and individual donations have been received, along with grant support from YouTube. A comprehensive public relations campaign will be implemented spring 2008 to further publicize Sisterhood Agenda’s global project and positive media component.

Sisterhood Agenda has also significantly increased collaboration with wholesale distributors, retailers and beauty salons to offer Sisterhood Agenda publications to their customers and clients in national, localized and global markets.