Host, Dia Parker is joined by artist Whitney Bentley of Pamoja Keepsakes (
) Pamoja Keepsakes offers custom digital illustrations and portraits, subscription box design, label design, logo design, instruction card design and more. For the personal artwork that I make for fun, I sell on my website and vending at pop-up events around the city. Some of these items include stickers, magnets, keychains, apparel, tote bags, and art prints. Pamoja means "togetherness" in Swahili. We've got t-shirts for our annual
#awresiliency
campaign available now- shipping included. Grab a few for the whole family.
Join us as we celebrate youth leadership, women uplifting women and local entrepreneurship! But most importantly, join us in celebrating you! Individual supporters like you bridge the gaps of funding delays between grant cycles and mismatched disbursement schedules. "Resilience in action= Resiliency" Won’t you be a symbol of resilience? Donate at least $25 to this special campaign you'll receive a limited t-shirt available in blue or white and sizes small-xxxlarge
Join our #AWResiliency Campaign
We launched a podcast in Dec. 2022 to continue celebrating our #AWResiliency Campaign. Listen to it: Beyond Resilience
About #AWResiliency
The dictionary defines resilience as -
“1.the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.
2.the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity."nylon is excellent in wearability and resilience"
We’ve chosen to step away from our traditional color scheme to evoke the power of resilience as we work in collaboration with local Atlanta artists to create one of a kind memorabilia for this summer long campaign! The colors of the campaign will include red to represent the bloodshed by our ancestors who we inherited resilience from. As well as gold to invite power into our hearts as we continue to express resiliency.
Let’s celebrate one year of youth leadership! Celebrate with us one year of young women uplifting young women! Celebrate local entrepreneurship with us as well! As part of this campaign we want to uplift women owned businesses and feature them on all our social media. Form for businesses: https://forms.gle/De4J6FfR5Gd27hUo7
But most importantly we want to hear from you! Due to the pandemic we’re currently unable to gather in person with you, but we haven’t forgotten about you! Form for volunteering: https://forms.gle/dpsobvnCM1wTQYR79
Please join us by using the hashtag #resiliency or #awresiliency ( we want to highlight the acts of being resilience so the hashtag won’t just be #resilience but resiliency.)
Without your support our business would have closed its doors in the midst of the school shut down but we’re still here. Meeting with our young ladies every week so that we can be a symbol of resilience in their lives.
Won’t you be a symbol of resilience for young women in Dekalb County, GA?
Keep scrolling to learn more about how you can join our campaign!
Athena’s Warehouse Presents, “Beyond Resilience” the podcast.
"Beyond Resilience" where we deep dive into the lives of women, non-binary, transgender, and gender nonconforming people in the Metro and Greater Atlanta area who exemplify resiliency by bouncing back and becoming greater- as they leap Beyond Resilience. Our goal is to provide the community of warriors supporting Athena's Warehouse with more information about our work. This podcast is our way of engaging with men who desire to be ally's in our work. We also want this podcast to provide personal & professional support to women who have “aged out” of our high school based program. About Athena's Warehouse: Our “Discover Your Inner” program brings students across various age groups, grades, and ethnicities together in a collaborative, healing space. Students work together to solve social issues through volunteering, advocacy and civic engagement initiatives.
“Beyond Resilience” Sponsorship Form
60-100% of podcast episode sponsorships go directly towards ongoing programming like meals for workshops, micro-scholarships to cover college fees, and therapy. Here’s a sample invoice of how funds were used for March 30th’s episode.
Spread the Word
You can nominate a business for us to feature by sharing this google form. Also please share our posts on Facebook and forward our emails to a friend who might be interested in hearing about us. If each one of us invited one new person to like the Athena’s Warehouse Facebook page, our network would reach the hundred thousands overnight!
Take a photo wearing red or gold and tag us on Instagram
Tag @athenaswarehouse on Instagram of Facebook and use hashtag #awresiliency to show us your resilience in action