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Hatshepsut, Pharaoh of Egypt
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Black Women In
Sisterhood for Action (BISA) was founded on January 10, 1980, as a non-profit
organization, whose purposes are to develop and promote alternative strategies
for educational and career development of black women; provide scholarship
assistance to young black women; provide support and social assistance for
senior black women in the community; share information in meaningful ways with
the community at-large; and to provide leadership, role models, and mentors for
young black women.
For the past 28
years, BISA has been publishing annual calendars of distinguished black women,
who serve as role models and mentors for BISA's scholarship recipients. It is
through the support of BISA's philosophy, goals, and programs and the marketing
of BISA's calendar, posters, reference books, and annual gala conference that
BISA is able to support its national scholarship program. Other support is
obtained from individual contributions and the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC).
We have sponsored 23 gala programs honoring 313 distinguished black women to
date. In addition, we have published five major reference books and 28th
calendars.
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BISA is a
high-energy organization that motivates, stimulates and produces results. We
guarantee that our scholarship recipients will learn, work, and have fun. We
currently have 50 BISA Scholars. Each scholar receives $1,000 per year for
tuition, plus expenses for books, tutoring, transportation, personal and medical
expenses as needed throughout their two or four years of undergraduate
education. We do our best to help our scholars in any area that they express
need.
Since its inception,
BISA has had 66 college graduates and provided over $800,000 to inner-city,
financially needy, young black women. Most of our scholars come from single
parent households, from the poorest communities and have overcame the perils of
their environment. Yet, they value education and are eager to press forward to
accomplish their goals in life. Our goal is to help them succeed in their
educational and career endeavors.
Past BISA Scholars
have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, government officials, teachers,
corporate managers, and more. They do succeed and become assets to their
communities!
Click
Here
for BISA's 28th Anniversary Photo Gallery
Website Last Updated on October 2008 |
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