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Southern California Coalition (SCC-NCNW) HistorySCC- NCNW was started when Meda Chamberlain was appointed Executive Director of the Southern California Area. She was followed by Hazel Isaiah Ransom and Otheta Glover who were appointed as conveners. The current President/Convener of Southern California is Dr. Helena Johnson. Lois Carson was on the national board for more than 10 years before term limits were added. She was initially a committee member and progressed to a National Vice President under Dorothy I. Height.
SCC-NCNW has offered several federally funded projects as well as partnerships with organizations such as United Way, The American Red Cross, as well as the City and County of Los Angeles. The most infamous project presented by SCC-NCNW was a series of Black Family Reunion that started in 1986 and is still held periodically throughout the area. A major accomplishment was the purchase of our headquarters at 3720 W. 54th St, Los Angeles. |
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Branches of SCC-NCNW are located in various areas throughout Southern California. There were almost twenty-one sections in Southern California at one time. Currently sections include Athens Westmont, Bethune, Compton, High Desert, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Mary McLeod Bethune, Long Beach, Orange County, Riverside, San Diego, and View Park. In addition, there is the Los Angeles Life Member Guild and Moreno Valley Life Member Guild. We continue to provide programs to enrich families and communities. We continue to grow and hope to bring on at least two new sections this year.
The SCC-NCNW facility owned by the National Council of Negro Women is home to several community programs and is utilized as a Space Sharing resource so that there is room for many community collaboratives. We are an arm of an organization who continues to usher in new eras of social activism and progressive growth. Today we are grounded in our national foundation of critical concerns known as “CORE 4”, STEAM, Financial Literacy and economic stability, Education, Health (mental and physical), as well as civic engagement and advocacy for sound public policy and social justice. |
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Dear SCC-NCNW Sisters,
As the year ends, the Executive Board would like to express their gratitude for your hard work and dedication during 2023. Blessings to you and your loved ones. We started and will end this year with a successful event. As we prepare for the New Year, we would like to thank you for all the success we have experienced that could not have been done without all the help from our Southern California Area members. We are so grateful for you and the hard work you put in for all the projects we delivered in 2023.
SCC-NCNW has provided a number of events, partnered with fifty organizations to share information for our GWH Program, volunteered to work in booths at the KJLH Black Women Health Expo, Taste of Soul, Los Angeles County Fair, Orange County Black History Event. We provided an BHRP Inland Luncheon, Receptions for our National President, Shavon Arline Bradley, and National Chair, A Lois Keith. We participated in food and clothing giveaways, toy giveaways, theater ticket sales, and more. Just thinking about all these events makes us proud to be associated with you and all you have undertaken on behalf of NCNW.
As a valued member of NCNW, we would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your hard work and dedication. Throughout the year, you have showed up and showed out and never wavered in your commitment to NCNW. You make SCC-NCNW look good locally and nationally. I honor the effort you have put into the organization. A number of our members have expressed their appreciation and support you have shown one another, especially at events with attendances of 10,000 to 200,000. I have confidence in you and am happy to see SCC-NCNW yield lots of success. Again, thank you to everyone who provided their hard work and dedication to NCNW in building and growing SCC-NCNW. Service well done. My heartiest gratitude to you for your immense hard work. We showed up this past.
I look forward to spending a more exciting upcoming year. Have a great holiday season!
Dr. Helena Johnson, President
#NCNWSTRONG
#SOCALNCNW
As the year ends, the Executive Board would like to express their gratitude for your hard work and dedication during 2023. Blessings to you and your loved ones. We started and will end this year with a successful event. As we prepare for the New Year, we would like to thank you for all the success we have experienced that could not have been done without all the help from our Southern California Area members. We are so grateful for you and the hard work you put in for all the projects we delivered in 2023.
SCC-NCNW has provided a number of events, partnered with fifty organizations to share information for our GWH Program, volunteered to work in booths at the KJLH Black Women Health Expo, Taste of Soul, Los Angeles County Fair, Orange County Black History Event. We provided an BHRP Inland Luncheon, Receptions for our National President, Shavon Arline Bradley, and National Chair, A Lois Keith. We participated in food and clothing giveaways, toy giveaways, theater ticket sales, and more. Just thinking about all these events makes us proud to be associated with you and all you have undertaken on behalf of NCNW.
As a valued member of NCNW, we would like to take the opportunity to thank you for your hard work and dedication. Throughout the year, you have showed up and showed out and never wavered in your commitment to NCNW. You make SCC-NCNW look good locally and nationally. I honor the effort you have put into the organization. A number of our members have expressed their appreciation and support you have shown one another, especially at events with attendances of 10,000 to 200,000. I have confidence in you and am happy to see SCC-NCNW yield lots of success. Again, thank you to everyone who provided their hard work and dedication to NCNW in building and growing SCC-NCNW. Service well done. My heartiest gratitude to you for your immense hard work. We showed up this past.
I look forward to spending a more exciting upcoming year. Have a great holiday season!
Dr. Helena Johnson, President
#NCNWSTRONG
#SOCALNCNW
"A woman is free if she lives by her own standards and creates her own destiny,
if she prizes her individuality and puts no boundaries on her hopes for tomorrow."
Mary McLeod Bethune
NCNW HistoryThe National Council of Negro Women is a coalition comprised of 200 community-based sections in 32 state and 38 national organizational affiliates that work to enlighten and inspire more than 3,000,000 women and men.
Its mission is to lead, advocate for and empower women of African descent, their families, and communities. NCNW was founded by Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, an influential educator and activist. For more than fifty years, the iconic Dr. Dorothy Height was president of NCNW. Today, under the leadership of Dr. Johnnetta Betsch Cole, NCNW's programs are grounded on a foundation of critical concerns known as "CORE 4". NCNW promotes education with a concentrated focus on science, technology, engineering, art and math; encourages entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and economic stability, educates women about good mental and physical health practices; promotes civic engagement and advocates for sound public policy consistent with traditional values. |
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NCNW PledgeIt is our pledge to make a lasting contribution to all that is finest and best in America, to cherish and enrich her heritage of freedom and progress by working for the integration of all her people regardless of race, creed or national origin, into her spiritual, social, cultural, civic and economic life, and thus aid her to achieve the glorious destiny of a true and unfettered democracy. |
"We have a powerful potential in our YOUTH, and we must have the COURAGE to CHANGE old IDEAS and PRACTICES so that we may direct their POWER toward GOOD ENDS."
-Mary McLeod Bethune |
"Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible.
With it, nothing is impossible."
Mary McLeod Bethune
SCC-NCNW Executive Board
Dr. Helena Johnson
President |
Stephanie Haynes
Vice President-Programs |
Corliss Bennett
Second Vice President-Membership |
Zanobia Ibrahim-Watkins
Young Adults |
Dr. DeVera Heard
Recording Secretary |
Rev. Melaine Mays
Treasurer |
Marnisha Mintlow
Financial Secretary |
Jaime Lindsey
Corresponding Secretary |
Doris Gray
Chaplain |
"Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough."
Mary McLeod Bethune
John Lewis -Good Trouble
