Sisterhood Agenda Inc

Sisterhood is the key to empowerment, social change, and freedom. Empowerment is a process by which people, organizations, and communities gain mastery over issues of concern to them. Efforts to gain control, access to resources, and a critical understanding of one’s sociopolitical context are fundamental aspects of empowerment processes.

Sisterhood Agenda's objectives:

1. The establishment of a centralized eco-facility for our vast global constituents, the SEA: Sisterhood Empowerment Academy based in St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
2. The recruitment and coordination of multiple sisterhood cohorts comprised of women and girls participating in Sisterhood Agenda programs and projects, including Global Girls Empowerment for 100,000 girls
3. Increased access to participate in economic trends such as eco-tourism, alterative energy, sustainable development, social entrepreneurship, and real estate development
4. An increase in leveraged funds, technical support, and capacity building for Sisterhood Agenda global partners
5. An increase in the Human Development Index
6. An increase in awareness and support
7. The creation and dissemination of best practices for how communities can enable women of color entrepreneurship, particularly social entrepreneurship, to thrive
8. Increased self-development and self-help efforts
9. The establishment of a centalized, maintained resource for finding sisterhood services, the online Global Sisterhood Directory
10. Increased leadership development
11. Increased development of transferable skills of benefit to diverse industry sectors
12. Increased awareness of work and career options
13. Increased access to business funding and financing, social enterprise solutions
14. Work, family, life balance
15. Business development growth plans and projections

With over twenty-five years of sisterhood success, Sisterhood Agenda recently held its anniversary event, Celebrating Sisterhood: 25 Years of Service, at the Oprah Winfrey Theater at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Federal, state, local, national, and international projects include the following:

1. Sisters In Business, an economic development resource for women entrepreneurs
2. SEA: Sisterhood Empowerment Academy, eco-facility built on St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands to serve Sisterhood Agenda’s mission and its global network
3. Sisterhood of Greatness, a manifesto for sisterhood learning, service, and growth
4. Sister Circles, women’s group for holistic health, healing, resource-sharing
5. Social Enterprise Solutions, creative financial strategies that generate revenues while optimizing available resources and serving the public good
6. Mentoring: Sisterhood Advisor, sisterhood support services
7. Counseling: Sisterhood Advisor, sisterhood support services
8. Publications: Girls Guide book series: Life After ACEs: Overcoming Girlhood Trauma, How to Relax & Let Go, Sisterhood Agenda Magazine, Beautiful., How to Create a Health and Healing Space to Empower Women and Girls, Meditation Handout with Bonus Affirmations
9. Sisterhood Gatherings, self-development sessions workshops, and presentations
10. A Journey Toward Womanhood, comprehensive prevention strategy for girls
11. SisterCamp, a summer enrichment program for girls
12. Global Educational Empowerment for 100,000 Girls, international project to scale Sisterhood Agenda programs and services
13. Men & Sisterhood, how men can aid the mission to educate, support, and empower women and girls
14. SHE: Sisters, Healthy & Empowered, health curriculum for women and girls
15. Young Sister on the Rise Scholarship, educational funds for higher learning

Our team, our passion, and our positive energy set the foundation for Sisterhood Agenda's work. Sisterhood Agenda educates, supports, and empowers women and girls with its diverse and inclusive sisterhood network of over 2 million, a network majority comprised of women of color.

Sisterhood Agenda offers partnerships, trauma-informed training, counseling, consulting, programs, and products for its global sisterhood network comprised of over 6,000 agencies in 36 countries (over 4,000 partners in U.S. states and its Territories), including international women business leaders.

With a focus on women and girls of color, Sisterhood Agenda has been partnering with agencies working at the grassroots level with women and girls, other nonprofit agencies, and business owners for over twenty-five years. Increasing the capacity of our global network is the strategy to uplift women and girls, our families, and our respective communities. Together, we thrive. Together, we win.

Our sisterhood team includes our Founder and President, Angela D. Coleman. Angela is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and a minor in African American Studies. She has an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix and a Nonprofit Management Certificate from Duke University. Angela holds additional certificates from the Institute of African Holistic Medicine & Science. Her research topics include business management, global markets, self-esteem, racial identity, self-definition, and stigmatization processes. She has over 30 years of nonprofit work experience, nationally and internationally.

Ms. Coleman is the author of over 20 books and has facilitated numerous presentations and classes on entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, business plan development, fundraising, writing winning grant proposals, youth development strategies, service evaluation, and racial identity. She has served as the Project Director for numerous federal and local government- funded Sisterhood Agenda projects. As an Adjunct Professor, Angela Coleman taught and mentored hundreds of college students regarding economics, business management, and business math.

Ms. Coleman has been featured in several local and national publications including Essence, Jet, Heart & Soul, Pink, Carolina Woman, and Business Leader. She has been awarded the Jefferson Award from the American Institute of Public Service, the National Association of

Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment (NABFEME) Certificate of Achievement, Phoenix Rising Award, Today’s Black Woman Leadership Award, the Young Adult Leadership Award from The Women’s Forum of North Carolina, and the Opening Doors Award from the Business and Professional Women’s Association. Angela Coleman was selected for the presti

Our team also includes Sisterhood Agenda Special Advisors:

• Blanche Williams, MS
• Monjia Belizaire, MRED, LEEP AP
• Yolanda Goode-Seay, RDH, LMT

Sisterhood Agenda is the recipient of over thirty awards, recognized for its innovative programming, outstanding commitment to the public trust, emphasis on research and evaluation, diversified funding strategy and method of cost-sharing with program participants.

Sisterhood Agenda has been contacted by over thousands of agencies locally, nationally, and globally for curriculum information and educational materials and the website, sisterhoodagenda.com, has received a high number of views with income for our global sisterhood network constituents in the upper 50%:

With over 17 million Google impressions and a network of over 2.2 million women, Sisterhood Agenda is a growing agency with new global partners and sisterhood network sign-ups every week.