MOTHER’S LOVE
DAUGHTER’S NEED
NATION’S STRENGTH
CENTERING BLACK SINGLE MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS IS ESSENTIAL
TO CHANGE THE TRAJECTORY OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND OUR NATION.
MISSION
BOND’s mission is to engage, mentor and develop Black single mothers to cultivate positive mother-daughter relationships, strengthen Black single-mother families,
and increase their economic mobility 2 generations at a time.
VISION
Every single mother and daughter across the nation will have the skills and resources needed to uplift herself, her family, and her community to a place of economic, educational, and socio-emotional health and success.
THEORY OF CHANGE
BOND is founded on the belief that families are the foundation of our nation, parents are the center of each family, and a mother is the heart of a single mother household. Women are the carriers of generations - when we work with two generations, mother and daughter, our impact grows exponentially.
BONDing experiences build each mother and daughter’s capacity to lead generations of women to come while ensuring every single mother household has access to the tools and supports to build strong positive mothers, daughters, and families.
LOCATIONS/SITES
Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women
Booker T. Washington Middle School
Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson Charter School
OUR HISTORY
BOND - Building Our Nation’s Daughters, Inc. was founded in 2015 after our founder, Ateira Griffin, realized a disconnect between black single mothers and daughters, the academic and social-emotional wellbeing of the daughters, and the lack of personal development support for single mothers while working as Dean of Students at The Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. This prompted her to research what supports would be helpful in cultivating positive bonds between single mothers and daughters while also providing two-generation experiences for black single mothers and daughters to learn together. In 2016, BOND received its first grant as a Warnock Foundation Social Innovation Award recipient. We held our first single mother-daughter brunch bringing the community together to share in their experiences and shape BOND’s programming.
Later that year we launched our first pilot in partnership with The Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. To date, we have mentored over 250 single moms in the Baltimore community and provided services for over 1000. In 2019, we were awarded the Echoing Green fellowship to further our work and most recently our CEO was awarded the Open Society Institute Community Fellowship in 2020.
In 2020 we expanded our school community partners to include three schools, Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women, Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson Charter School, and Booker T. Washington Middle School. We continue to support black single mothers and daughters in social-emotional, academic, and economic growth today.
BOND VALUES
Community & Collaboration
Our Joy
Healing & Vulnerability
Multi-generational Learning
Racial & Economic Justice
Black Women Liberation
Innovation
OUR IMPACT
Cultivating relationships and changing outcomes
with our single mothers and daughters since 2016.
BY THE NUMBERS
BOND TEAM
Our Team is the Center of the BOND Way!
ATEIRA GRIFFIN, CEO & FOUNDER
ALISA WILLIAMS, LEAD COUNSELOR
DANIELLE NEAL, SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER
BOND BOARD
SUKARI BROWN
SHAMOYIA GARDINER
KIMBERLY HUMPREY