Ashley Stewart Foundation Partners to Empower African American Women

Ashley Stewart Foundation Partners to Empower African American Women

Ashley Stewart Foundation Partners to Empower African American Women
Ashley
Stewart Foundation’s Renau Daniels (executive director) and Mark Gunn
(chairman); NCNW’s Dorothy I. Height (chair emerita) and Alfreda Davis
(executive director) and Urban Brands’ Laura Weil (CEO; Ashley
Stewart’s parent company)

(Washington)
– Regally dressed and wearing a royal purple hat that deserves as much
praise as Aretha Franklin’s chapeau worn during the presidential
inauguration, Dorothy I. Height, chair Emerita of the National Council
of Negro Women Inc. (NCNW), graciously accepted a donation of $566,629
from the Ashley Stewart Foundation at the organization’s headquarters
in Washington. This past fall, the Ashley Stewart Foundation and the
National Council of Negro Women Inc. (NCNW) joined forces to form the
“We Are Listening Campaign,” which is a movement to encourage
intergenerational discussions between young women under age 35 and
older women in the African American community. Campaign initiatives
include community outreach and mentoring to “empower, inform and
celebrate African American women” and membership recruitment into the
74-year-old African American women’s organization.


“Women give themselves a start. They don’t wait for somebody to give
them a start,” shares Height referencing a popular quote from the late
Madame C. J. Walker. “There have always been women who have
self-empowered. We welcome this opportunity and we thank Ashley
Stewart. We are reminded of our power and how we have to use it. This
partnership with Ashley Stewart is so dear to us and so important. We
need to have one program that brings us all together.”

Since the “We Are Listening Campaign” launched in October 2008, 18,000
new members have joined NCNW through the Ashley Stewart stores. Also,
members in the organization are eligible for promotions and special
discounts.


According to Mark Gunn, chairman of the Ashley Stewart Foundation, “It
takes action to foster real change in the African American community.” –yvette caslin

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