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In Honor of Black History Month, we will be releasing our "Hair Is" Series, a list of charities that we encourage you to support and a list of Black Owned Businesses that are available for you to utilize in order to continue to circulate Wealth within the Black Community!

Remember, February is not the only month that we can celebrate our history and legacy, it should be revered daily.

Giving back to our community has always been a priority to Dosso Beauty because without our community, we would not exist. We believe in the Key Twi term "Sankofa" which means to reach back while climbing forward.

Dosso Deeds is a list of charities and non-profit organizations that we will be supporting and encourage you to do the same! If you have a non-profit or a charity that you would like for us to feature on our list please send us an email by clicking this link to submit a request to be included.

African American Youth Harvest Foundation

The African American Youth Harvest Foundation mission is to effectually address disparities and ensure low-barrier access to vital educational, economic, and enrichment resources to underserved, at-risk youth and their families on their path to self-sufficiency.

Through their programs, nearly 9,000 youth and adults have received services at their flagship African American Youth Resource Center. AAYHF has also helped 49 juvenile offenders enroll in their mentoring program, and nearly 2,000 youth and adults have attended their conferences, where they seek to improve our community by focusing on supporting and strengthening the family unit and addressing preconceived notions of minority youth. https://aayhf.org/

Innocence Project

The Innocence Project's mission is to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment.

The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. https://innocenceproject.org/

Equal Justice Initiative

The Innocence Project's mission is to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment.

Black Girls Code

Black Girls CODE is devoted to showing the world that black girls can code, and do so much more. By reaching out to the community through workshops and after school programs, Black Girls CODE introduces computer coding lessons to young girls from underrepresented communities in programming languages such as Scratch or Ruby on Rails.

Black Girls CODE has set out to prove to the world that girls of every color have the skills to become the programmers of tomorrow. By promoting classes and programs we hope to grow the number of women of color working in technology and give underprivileged girls a chance to become the masters of their technological worlds. Black Girls CODE's ultimate goal is to provide African-American youth with the skills to occupy some of the 1.4 million computing job openings expected to be available in the U.S. by 2020, and to train 1 million girls by 2040. https://www.blackgirlscode.com/

Support Black-Owned Businesses Year-Round!

The only way that the Black Community can truly create generational wealth and obtain economic freedom is by supporting other Black Owned Businesses. As business owners, consumers, investors and supporters it is our duty to create an effective eco-system where we can not only purchase a few products from our fellow Black-Owned businesses, but that we seek out Black manufacturers, accountants, technology companies, shipping companies, graphic designers and every product/service that you need within the supply chain of your business.

If we look back to the Great Migration and the insurmountable success of the Black Wall Street and Harlem Renaissance within our history, we will notice a few key actions that helped those business owners, creators and consumers to thrive. One being that they supported one another because they had no other choice but to rely on themselves due to segregation, Jim Crow Laws and ignorance. We live in a time where things have improved tremendously, but much more work needs to be done to level the playing field of economic equality in America and for Black people across the globe which is why we have a duty to support one another.

-Kadidja Dosso

Founder/CEO of Dosso Beauty