• Celebrity
    • Of The Essence
    • Celebrity News
    • If Not For My Girls
    • The State Of R&B
    • Time Of Essence
  • Fashion
    • 2023 Best In Black Fashion Awards
    • 2023 Fashion House
    • Red Carpet
    • Fashion News
    • Accessories
  • Beauty
    • Girls United: Beautiful Possibilities
    • 2023 Best In Black Beauty
    • Skin
    • Makeup
    • Nails
    • Hair
  • Lifestyle
    • Love
    • Parenting
    • Relationships
    • Bridal Bliss
    • Lifestyle News
    • Health & Wellness
    • ESSENCE Eats
    • Travel
    • Food & Drink
  • Entrepreneurship
    • Money & Career
    • SOKO MRKT
  • News
    • Latest News
    • Paint The Polls Black
    • Culture
    • Politics
  • Shopping
    • Essence Holiday Gift Guide 2023
  • Video
  • Events
    • 2023 Fashion House
    • 2023 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture
    • 2023 Wellness House
    • 2023 Black Women In Hollywood
    • 2023 ESSENCE Film Festival
    • 2023 HOLLYWOOD HOUSE
  • Studios
  • Girls United

WHERE BLACK CULTURE, COMMUNITY AND CONSCIOUSNESS MEET

Sign up for ESSENCE Newsletters the keep the Black women at the forefront of conversation.

Your email is required.
Your email is in invalid format.
Confirm email is required.
Email did not match.
Select the newsletters you'd like to receive:
Please select at least one option.
By clicking Subscribe Now, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
Skip to content
SUBSCRIBE
  • MAGAZINE
  • NEWSLETTER
  • Celebrity
    • Of The Essence
    • Celebrity News
    • If Not For My Girls
    • The State Of R&B
    • Time Of Essence
  • Fashion
    • 2023 Best In Black Fashion Awards
    • 2023 Fashion House
    • Red Carpet
    • Fashion News
    • Accessories
  • Beauty
    • Girls United: Beautiful Possibilities
    • 2023 Best In Black Beauty
    • Skin
    • Makeup
    • Nails
    • Hair
      • Hair News
      • Natural
      • Relaxed
      • Transitioning
      • Weave
      • 4C
  • Lifestyle
    • Love
    • Parenting
    • Relationships
    • Bridal Bliss
    • Lifestyle News
    • Health & Wellness
    • ESSENCE Eats
    • Travel
    • Food & Drink
  • Entrepreneurship
    • Money & Career
    • SOKO MRKT
  • News
    • Latest News
    • Paint The Polls Black
    • Culture
    • Politics
  • Shopping
    • Essence Holiday Gift Guide 2023
  • Video
  • Events
    • 2023 Fashion House
    • 2023 ESSENCE Festival Of Culture
    • 2023 Wellness House
    • 2023 Black Women In Hollywood
    • 2023 ESSENCE Film Festival
    • 2023 HOLLYWOOD HOUSE
  • Studios
  • Girls United
Home • 2015 Essence Festival

5 Amazing 'Community Corner' Organizations You Can Sign Up For at ESSENCE FEST 2015

Looking for ways to make your community, or the world, a better place?  Here are 5 initiatives that could use your help who are set to be featured in the Community Zone at ESSENCE FEST 2015.
5 Amazing ‘Community Corner’ Organizations You Can Sign Up For at ESSENCE FEST 2015
Play Like a Girl!
By Gia Peppers · Updated October 27, 2020

The ESSENCE FEST is the perfect place to fulfill your mind, body, spirit and soul. While many of our 500,000+ attendees flock to New Orleans to see our artists like Erykah Badu, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly and Kendrick Lamar take the stage, many of them leave with new friends, renewed perspectives and knowledge of how they can make a difference within communities around the world.

One of the most special areas of the Convention Center is the Shops at ESSENCE, Community Corner. Each year, we invite various organizations and initiatives from around the world to meet with thousands of people who are ready to work for the greater good. As the countdown to Independence weekend presses on, we want to inform you of a few initiatives you must-see before the 4-day event ends. After hearing their stories, you’ll know exactly why.

5 Community Initiatives You Can Sign Up For at ESSENCE FEST 2015:

1. Play Like A Girl! 

“Play Like A Girl!® has been motivating women and girls to adopt and maintain a healthy lifestyle for over 10 years. Our mission is to inspire girls everywhere to live happier and healthier by promoting physical activity as a path to lifelong success. Essentially, we are on a mission to #bringbackplay. This fall, Play Like A Girl! will launch collegiate chapters at Historically Black Colleges & Universities across the South. To find out how you can bring a chapter to your campus.” iplaylikeagirl.org

:

2. Friends of Uganda:

 “We seek to provide a market for the lovely, unique products made by women in Uganda, Africa. We delight in our beautiful products, and our sales change lives. It is important for us to be represented at Essence because our sales change lives of women and children in Africa. We have many different products, all hand made and lovely. We are Fair Trade. Our sales provide education, food, and shelter for many African women.” frouganda.org


3. Columbia College Chicago:

 “Columbia College Chicago is an undergraduate and graduate institution whose principal commitment is to provide a comprehensive educational opportunity in the arts, communications, and public information within a context of enlightened liberal education. Columbia’s intent is to educate students who will communicate creatively and shape the public’s perceptions of issues and events and who will author the culture of their times. Columbia is an urban institution whose students reflect the economic, racial, cultural, and educational diversity of contemporary America. Columbia conducts education in close relationship to a vital urban reality and serves an important civic purpose by active engagement in the life and culture of the city of Chicago.” www.colum.edu:

4.  Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital: 

“In 2005, Nelson Mandela personally challenged the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund to investigate paediatric healthcare in Southern Africa, and what can be done to improve any disparities. After feasibility studies and consultation with hospitals around the world, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital Trust was established. Since then the Trust has been fundraising towards its $100 million target. In April 2014, they reached their halfway mark, and began construction on the hospital. To date, $62m has been raised, and the hospital is targeted to open in the second half of 2016. This is Madiba’s last wish for the children of Africa – a legacy project whose effects will be felt for generations to come.” www.nelsonmandelachildrenshospital.org


5.  The Trayvon Martin Foundation

“The Trayvon Martin Foundation was established by Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin in March 2012 as a not-for-profit organization under the auspices of the Miami Foundation. The Foundation’s purpose is to create awareness of how violent crime impacts the families of the victims and to provide support and advocacy for those families in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin. The scope of the Foundation’s mission is to advocate that crime victims and their families are not ignored in the discussions about violent crime to increase public awareness of all forms of racial ethnic and gender profiling educate youth on conflict resolution techniques and to reduce the incidences where confrontations between strangers turn deadly.” www.trayvonmartinfoundation.org


For a full list of Community Corner vendors, as well as arts and crafts you can dive in to at ESSENCE FEST, check out the July 2015 issue of ESSENCE Magazine.  To make sure you don’t miss out on any of the great times we are sure to have in NOLA, purchase your Single Night Tickets, today.

COMPANY INFORMATION
  • Our Company
  • Customer Service
  • Essence Ventures
  • Change Your Address
  • Contact Us
  • Job Opportunities
  • Internships
  • Media Kit
  • tag
SUBSCRIBE
  • Newsletters
  • Give a Gift of ESSENCE
  • Magazine Tablet Edition
FOLLOW US
MORE ON ESSENCE
  • Home
  • Love
  • Celebrity
  • Beauty
  • Hair
  • Fashion
  • ESSENCE festival

ESSENCE.com is part of ESSENCE Communications, Inc.

Essence may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.

©2023 ESSENCE Communications Inc. All Rights Reserved. | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Essence.com Advertising Terms

Get The ESSENCE Newsletter and
Special Offers delivered to your inbox

By clicking Sign Up, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Get The ESSENCE Magazine
by subscribing below
subscribe now