#WomenMakingHistory
Featuring incredible women-run nonprofit organizations supported by eGuide.
As a team passionate about using technology to create positive change, we at eGuide Tech Allies are always looking for ways to support nonprofit organizations that make a difference. We're especially proud to work with women-led nonprofits that break barriers, shatter stereotypes, and advance social justice. In this blog post, we're featuring incredible women-run nonprofit organizations supported by eGuide. We invite you to visit their websites to learn more about their missions, donate, and help them continue the impactful work they are doing.
An Infinite Mind
Mission:
An Infinite Mind was and remains a passion project created and developed by a survivor to bridge the need for support in their own struggle with DID in 2010. It was built to increase awareness and education on Dissociation and DID from multiple perspectives of survivors, clinicians, and supporters.
Vision:
An Infinite Mind strives to increase accurate portrayals of people living with dissociative disorders and provide them with access to avenues of resilience. We seek to increase community support and decrease stigma for the wellbeing of the community.
Meet Jaime
Jaime lives in Central Florida where she works as a district Pre-K special education resource teacher. She also works part-time as an in-home early interventionist for special needs children aged birth to three.
In 2005, she was diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) resulting from childhood trauma. Jaime searched for support only to find there were very limited resources available. Her efforts to find support for herself led her to seek out other survivors living with the disorder.
As she found others living with DID, she witnessed firsthand the challenges they shared and decided to shift her focus to help others, like herself, living with DID. In July of 2007, she started one of the only peer-led DID support groups in the country, which led to the creation of An Infinite Mind in January of 2008.
Her passion comes from the hope that people with DID can find the support and resources they need and will no longer fear the stigma surrounding the disorder.
Education Leaders of Color
Mission:
Our mission is to catalyze cross-sector collaboration through a network of values-aligned leaders, help drive policy change, and directly support senior leaders of color who are explicitly focused on dismantling systemic barriers to the academic and economic advancement and success of young people of color.
Vision:
EdLoC exists to realize the vision that young people of color are thriving, building generational wealth, and face fewer systemic barriers to capitalize on opportunities.
Meet Sharhonda
Sharhonda Bossier is CEO at Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC), and a committed advocate for Black and Brown children who have been denied adequate educational opportunity. She previously served as EdLoC’s deputy director.
EdLoC supports talented leaders of color in education and related fields to thrive as disruptive and innovative agents of change. Under Sharhonda’s leadership, the organization is expanding its scope and focus by strengthening its growing multi-racial coalition and designing holistic solutions to disrupt cycles of generational poverty in the communities EdLoC serves.
Sharhonda started her career in education as a public school teacher. She also brings years of legislative and electoral campaign experience in both volunteer and leadership capacities to her work. Among the variety of her experiences, she launched a multi-state education engagement and advocacy organization to help communities develop the skills and capacity to more effectively engage with policymakers and other decision-makers.
Surge Institute
Mission:
To educate and develop leaders of color who create transformative change for young people, their families and our broader communities.
Vision:
We are the preeminent pipeline addressing the dearth of leadership of color at decision-making tables. Surge educates, empowers and energizes leaders of color who will create transformative change in the communities they serve.
Meet Carmita
Carmita’s superpower is to be a mirror for others. She supports and elevates the genius of emerging and seasoned leaders and shines a light on the brilliance and ingenuity too often overlooked and untapped in solving systemic issues.
After starting her career as an engineer and strategist for multiple Fortune 500 companies, corporate America could not contain Carmita’s desire to lead initiatives that benefit youth and revitalize communities – so she blazed a trail within the non-profit sector, primarily in K-12 education.
Though an adopted Chicagoan, Carmita proudly hails from Birmingham, AL. Birmingham’s history has greatly shaped what she feels called to do and the hustle, horsepower, and heart she exhibits.
Truth Be Told
Mission:
Truth Be Told, based in Austin Texas, Provides transformational programs through self-discovery for women who are or have been incarcerated resulting in increased self-worth, accountability, and positive contributions to society.
Vision:
A society where all justice-involved women are restored to integrity, thereby breaking the cycle of incarceration.
Meet Carol
Though never incarcerated, Carol Waid believes there was a time when she was serving a “life sentence,” imprisoned by chaos, addiction and domestic violence. She found her way to freedom through 12-step programs and an 18-year journey as a co-founder, facilitator and program director of Truth Be Told. As Truth Be Told’s program director and a facilitator of programs behind and beyond prison walls for nearly two decades, she became a woman with purpose, passion and healing gifts who was willing and able to give back what had been given to her. Under Carol’s leadership as program director, Truth Be Told grew to serving approximately 1,000 justice-involved women every year across five correctional facilities and in the free world.
