This year’s event is FREE! Bring your wallets and pocketbooks though, as the day promises to be a fun event!!  We ask that you RSVP (by emailing fundraising[at]bwwla.com or calling 323.290.5955) so that we may have an accurate headcount for our healthy food offerings prepared by our Kitchen Divas!

Location:
Community Build Garden
4305 Degnan Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90008
RSVP: Phone 323-290-5955 or fundraising {AT} bwwla.com

Support this event by submitting a photo of your loved one to be displayed during an electronic slideshow throughout the event, with a donation of $10, below.

Mother’s Day Tea Advertising is Going Green!

We want to reduce on paper and printing costs and are going mostly electronic with our ads with logo placement on a keepsake.  Please support this fundraiser by selecting one of three advertising options below.

Please submit Advertising Application, BlackWomenforWellness_AdvertisingApplication2012.doc

$50 Advertisement – Rotation of Your Ad/Logo on bwwla.org and bwwla.com

$175 Advertisement – Rotation of Your Ad/Logo at event and on bwwla.org and bwwla.com and more!

$250 Advertisement – Rotation of Your Ad/Logo on at event, Ad/Logo on event keepsake, placement on bwwla.org and bwwla.com and more!

This Year’s Honorees

Nike Irvin
Black Women for Wellness’ Community Champion of the Year

Ms. Irvin is vice president of Programs, Nike oversees a staff of 13 professionals and discretionary grants budget of $26.4 million for fiscal year 2011-2012 at California Community Foundation. From past experience, she believes, “The social sector plays a critical role in our era of collapsing government budgets and corporate consolidations. And no matter the sector, smart, ethical, authentic leadership matters.”   A native of Los Angeles and active member of her Los Feliz community, Nike attended LAUSD public schools through 9th grade. Through the nonprofit A Better Chance, she attended a Connecticut boarding school. She then earned a B.A. in economics and political science from Yale, and later, an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Moya Mzuri Pambeli
Black Women for Wellness’ Amy Jacques Garvey Award

Being from  Africa ,  born in the projects of Aliso Village –Los Angeles in 1955, then moving to  55th and Vermont, then to Watts/Compton area, I am a child of my community.   My  community was full of examples of progressive voices and personalities of resistance. I sought out these soldiers as mentors. First being mentored by church elders and especially the wormen, then a Watts motorcyle group called  ‘Brothers of the chosen Few”, then the young Panthers who were all mentors and protectors of our community.   A graduate from –CentennialHigh School in Compton 1973, we took on the theme ‘Uziku Za Watoto’-children of the night!   I attended and studied at the University of California Berkeley, following in the proud footsteps of activism. I majored in Economics receiving a Bachelor of Arts with a minor in Urban Planning and later received a Masters of Arts in Organizational Management from the University of Phoenix.

Stephanie Haynes
Black Women for Wellness’ Volunteer of the Year
Founder and CEO of Fashionably Fit, Ms. Haynes is a gifted multitalented personal trainer and life coach with 30 years experience in the field of fitness and fashion. She has first-hand knowledge of healing the mind, body and spirit. Her famous saying is “When you heal the mind the body will follow.” Ms. Haynes specializes in self-empowerment with a focus on empowering the individual to create a fulfilling and successful life by supporting them in transforming negative beliefs and replacing them with powerful positive beliefs.   Ms. Haynes has been working in the community for over 30 years in different capacities such as community activist for youth education and displaced homemakers. She has also been an advocate for stroke patients, diabetics, arthritis and chronic pain sufferers as well as alcohol and drug abuse clients.

SURPRISE HONOREE!
This young lady has given so much of her time, energy and enthusiasm to Black Women for Wellness.  We hope you come out to find out who she is!!