Despite the inside of the building at 24th and Grant streets, the future for it is bright. “I get chills,” Ashlei Spivey said. “When I see our logo and just what this is going to be. This is the front of our building, you can see into our waiting room.” Those are just the renderings. I Be Black Girl executive director Asheli Spivey said this center is needed for the community. “For us to be situated here saying, “Black women, femmes and girls are important. Here’s a space dedicated to you. Here’s a space that’s about supporting Black pregnant people,’ is absolutely integral and important to continue to make this space a thriving corridor,” Spivey said.Her dreams extend to partnerships with like-minded organizations like A Mother’s Love. “It’s important for us to go in the community and be where the problem is,” Shanika King said. “If we are able to come here we are able to travel and partner with I Be Black Girl and other organizations to bring the services we offer.” King is the executive director of A Mother’s Love.Spivey said there’s still a lot of work to do to get The Birth Resource Center up and running. “We’re about halfway through construction and about 30 percent through fundraising,” Spivey said. “We have about $800,000 that we still have to raise in order to make this come to fruition.”King said she would be able to hold classes inside.”We would be able to train doulas to be able to go out in the community and produce that relationship that we need to build with our community to be able to make that change,” King said.Spivey urges the community to be involved. “We really want this to be a community space so we’re really asking the community to help us invest and making this a reality,” Spivey said. I Be Black Girl is fundraising through their Brick by Brick fundraiser. You can donate here.
Despite the inside of the building at 24th and Grant streets, the future for it is bright.
“I get chills,” Ashlei Spivey said. “When I see our logo and just what this is going to be. This is the front of our building, you can see into our waiting room.”
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Those are just the renderings. I Be Black Girl executive director Asheli Spivey said this center is needed for the community.
“For us to be situated here saying, “Black women, femmes and girls are important. Here’s a space dedicated to you. Here’s a space that’s about supporting Black pregnant people,’ is absolutely integral and important to continue to make this space a thriving corridor,” Spivey said.
Her dreams extend to partnerships with like-minded organizations like A Mother’s Love.
“It’s important for us to go in the community and be where the problem is,” Shanika King said. “If we are able to come here we are able to travel and partner with I Be Black Girl and other organizations to bring the services we offer.”
King is the executive director of A Mother’s Love.
Spivey said there’s still a lot of work to do to get The Birth Resource Center up and running.
“We’re about halfway through construction and about 30 percent through fundraising,” Spivey said. “We have about $800,000 that we still have to raise in order to make this come to fruition.”
King said she would be able to hold classes inside.
“We would be able to train doulas to be able to go out in the community and produce that relationship that we need to build with our community to be able to make that change,” King said.
Spivey urges the community to be involved.
“We really want this to be a community space so we’re really asking the community to help us invest and making this a reality,” Spivey said.
I Be Black Girl is fundraising through their Brick by Brick fundraiser. You can donate here.
