Black Women for Wellness

What it reported doing in 2024

In 2024 bww continued to host and participate in an assortment of in person and virtual events and gatherings to promote and participate in supporting the upliftment of the lives, voices, experiences, health status and wellbeing of black women and girls. Bww staff engaged and worked with community members and volunteers, community health professionals, health care practitioners, cbos and civic leaders to create awareness, build power and advocate for systems change. Through these efforts, more than 100,000 people were reached through events, programming, and community outreach and engagement. We have consistently engaged with more than 290,000 followers on social media and 272,000 views on the bww website. Our civic engagement team which covered 85+ community events and the team included, community health outreach workers, canvassers, text and phone bankers focused on engaging community members throughout the year, sharing information to promote voter education and participation to increase the electoral and political power of black women during and between elections, providing educational information and registration resources to residents about caleitc tax credit, educating community about maternal infant health care laws and services, maternal transportation resources, increasing support for the phase out of the neighborhood oil drilling, water equity and holding polluters accountable. We also launched a men's empowerment campaign in which we engaged more than 22,000 men, while significantly working to increase bww's supporter network. From these strategies and various program events we were able to reach more than 640k people. Through the work of our communications team we were able to ensure that our internet quilt keeps pace with the cyber world through www.bwwla.org, many social media platforms (facebook, instagram, x, linked in & alignable) and communicates with our community via a weekly electronic newsletter. Our combined communications surpassed 500k people via data and analytics from google and social media. We also posted over 30 billboards posted statewide and digital projections throughout los angeles, reaching over 21 million impressions, while being featured in the press 67 times.sisters in control reproductive justice(scrj) program continues to support policy, utilizes programs, works with advisory councils, commissions and boards to secure reproductive justice for women and girls. This program launched the fierce aunties campaign, empowering 50+ aunties to be rj advocates.bww continued to serve on several coalitions, roundtables, alliances, task forces such as the african american infant & maternal mortality community action team of south los angeles/south bay in los angeles county that works community based organizations and rj activists. We hosted more than 10 events such as birthing tours, film festivals, walks, birth worker career fair and wellness events for more than 880 health care practitioners, mih advocates, community leaders, pregnant women and mothers to continue to build capacity to shift cultural narratives surrounding black maternal and infant health. These efforts included the dissemination of the (centering black moms report).through this work we also served 2,650 black birthing people and their families throughout la county. Black women for wellness organized programs throughout los angeles county in celebration of black momma's week, breastfeeding month, mother's day, reproductive justice and rights, community health and domestic violence with program services and resources highlighting birthing people's rights. Through the stockton office, we were able to continue our efforts of uplifting the centering black mothers report in California, while hosting 4 events and participating on panels, speaking at seminars and conferences as well as conducting outreach at more than 30 events which included health fairs, diabetes prevention, community walks and celebrations to educate communities about

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 53%; rating input score 53
• Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
• Fundraising efficiency: $114.08 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 30%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.59; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 20.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 23.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 32.8% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings