BlackCelebrityGiving.Com spotlights singer and songwriter Jill Scott for her Blues Babe Foundation!
About
Focus on providing scholarships, to college bound students of color in the greater Philly, Camden and Delaware area from undeserved communities. The foundation offers programs that promotes leadership and academic excellence. Programs includes Camp Jill Scott, Clean up your Neighborhood, and Music in the Classroom.
How did Blues Babe Foundation get started?
Founded in 2002 by Grammy award winner singer/song writer, Jill Scott. Affectionately name after Jill’s grandmother whose beautiful skin had a blueish tint. Foundation was inspired by events in Jill’s own life. Her early years were spent at the local recreation center writing music and poetry, in addition to attending summer camp. It was important for her to return home to her community and ensure that tradition continues. It is important to Jill that no young person is stalled from getting a full education due to lack of funds.
How can you help?
Blues Babe Foundations created a clothing line and hand made journal line called Indigo. T-shirt designs were “inspired by the potential of determined young minds” All proceeds earned from the clothing line supports the Foundation.
http://bluesbabefoundation.org/wordpress/store/
Major Accomplishments:
$100k donated from Jill’s private funds to start Blues Babe Foundation.
$60k donated to a NJ school for those students who maintained a 3.2 gpa.
$100k donation given to renovate & restore the Cecil B. Moore recreation center.
Partnered with E! Entertainment to donate desktop computers to Thomas Pierce Elementary School.
Last Words: “This is what Blue Babes Foundation is about, it’s about educating our young people. It’s about inspiring them to be more, see more, enjoy more, want more. So everybody in North Philly could just stand up and be proud, no matter how people look at you.” ~Jill Scott
To learn more about Blue Babes Foundation you find them:
www.bluebabesfoundation.org
Source Credit: www.hipfresh.com
It is a wonderful thing that Jill Scott is doing for our young people in North Philadelphia and abroad. She has not forgotten where she came from. I look forward to writing and having another interview with her as I recall with her featured on Jeff Bradshaw’s first CD/video at the Zanzibar Blue nightclub in Philadelphia. Jill is such a class act and I enjoyed doing poetry at Gloria’s Cafe some time ago…look how far she has come. What an awesome poet and role model. God bless and keep you Jill is my prayer.
Marsha Cooper Stroman
Writer/Journalist/Author
c/o ZANA’ Entertainment Diversity Magazine & Casting
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(215) 869-6566