Membership Overview

• Black Women for Wellness (BWW) is a membership organization.  Membership is open to all women and men of good intent and concerned about improving the health status and well being of Black women and our families.
• By joining Black Women for Wellness, you add your voice to the chorus of people and institutions working toward the enhance health and empowerment of the Black community.
• Members enable us to create, design and implement programs with Black women for Black women.  They also enable Black Women for Wellness to remain somewhat flexible to investigate, advocate and support the issues and concerns Black Women feel are important to us.

Benefits of Membership

Your membership strengthens our voice and power! Black Women for Wellness is on a mission, to enhance the health and well being of Black women. We are inclusive of all folks of good intent who want to support and help us achieve this mission. There is a need for organized Black women’s organizations, to speak our truths, to represent our concerns, to remind power of our value, to advocate and to bring the report back to our community. Black Women for Wellness should be empowered by a concerned community, folks who share our mission of enhanced health and well being for Black women.

Your membership makes us responsible to you! We can do collectively, more than the individual, each membership gives us more strength and authority to speak our truths and to hold accountable those with resources and influence over our collective health.

Member benefits include discounts for all program activities, inclusion with e-mail newsletter, discount for Black Women for Wellness products and services. Need more reasons to join now, membership fees will increase starting April 1, 2006. (to $65.00 annual)

It feels good to support community based organizations who are working to make our lives better, it puts your money where your values are…after all our check books are a reflection of us... Black Women for Wellness speaks to the holistic health of Black women, we do not separate by body part, disease and/or current trend. We attempt to be inclusive of all Black women not simply African American women with our programs and activities. We network, communicate and share information in the community about the community.

We affirm our culture at each and every event, program and activity – because it is important to us and to our survival. Black Women for Wellness builds on our strengths and keeps a vision of the future in sight. But we need your assist via memberships and donations – take a moment to join Black Women for Wellness during March – International Women’s Month…already a member, we appreciate your recruitment of new members, share the wealth with colleagues, associates, friends, book club members, women/men in need, of like mind and who are seeking a community based organization to support.

Oh yes, we accept donations also, for those of you may not want to join just yet. And yes your membership may be anonymous, for those of you who prefer to remain anonymous. Black Women for Wellness is a non profit organization and donations are deductible. As you complete your tax returns keep this in mind for next year. A word to the brothers, yes, become a member of Black Women for Wellness – brothers are our backbone and we love you. Sisters @ Eight is transitioning to Brothers & Sisters @ Eight, to be even more inclusive of the voices of Black men, those in our lives, those working side by side with us to enhance our health and well being, those who know the value of a Black woman and those who stand in support because it is the right thing to do and because you know it comes full circle to you. Brothers have voice in Black Women for Wellness!

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