Melanated Pearl IncorporationEDUCATE - UPLIFT - EMPOWER
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Executive Summary 2025 and Beyond
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Melanated PEARL Inc aims to improve the critical services provided to women and families. To achieve this goal, the organization will consolidate existing initiatives and restructure its Human Services to include an Education Innovation and Improvement strategy committed to enhancing the educational experiences of students negatively impacted by trauma associated with homelessness.
Background Melanated PEARL Inc is a nonprofit organization in Clayton County, Georgia, dedicated to educating, empowering and uplifting women and families of color. As part of this mission, the organization has provided critical support to homeless women and families in the area for the past five years. The organization offered services and programs to address the immediate needs of people experiencing homelessness and housing instability, including emergency rental assistance, transitional housing, job training and placement, mental health and substance abuse counseling, and financial literacy workshops. Melanated PEARL Inc also provides resources for basic needs such as food, clothing, and hygiene. |
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Next Steps
In 2025, Melanated PEARL Inc can better serve the vulnerable population in Clayton County by consolidating existing initiatives and restructuring services to expand our Human Services to include an Education Innovation and Improvement strategies. This restructuring aims to provide a more comprehensive and holistic support system to help students and families transition from housing instability, prevent child abuse, and address chronic absenteeism as they move towards self-sufficiency. With the support of our community, public and private funders, and our Board, Melanated PEARL Inc can pivot to providing an elevated level of critical services to families and work towards implementing a community where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
In 2025, Melanated PEARL Inc can better serve the vulnerable population in Clayton County by consolidating existing initiatives and restructuring services to expand our Human Services to include an Education Innovation and Improvement strategies. This restructuring aims to provide a more comprehensive and holistic support system to help students and families transition from housing instability, prevent child abuse, and address chronic absenteeism as they move towards self-sufficiency. With the support of our community, public and private funders, and our Board, Melanated PEARL Inc can pivot to providing an elevated level of critical services to families and work towards implementing a community where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
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Why MelanatedPearl?Because, it is time to repair our communities by caring for the women who take care of them! Throughout our history, we’ve grown accustomed to thinking and talking about the interests of the Black community almost exclusively in terms of the challenges faced by Black men; our brothers, our fathers and our sons. We have conversations about African-American men and boys without anyone ever pausing to understand and provide solutions for what is happening to the women and girls around them. |
Mission Statement
Our mission is to educate, uplift, and empower our clients by providing programming, access, resources, and funding opportunities.
The programs and content we produce help uplift our communities by capturing the needs and stories of our target audiences and then connecting them to meaningful programming; we educate and grow our community by sharing resources and implementing initiatives that make women of color feel confident and accomplished; and we empower our clients by providing captivating and relatable stories, that model and celebrate their journey as they learn to take control of their personal, professional, and financial future.
PEARL is an acronym meaning Passionate Engaged Activists, Resisting Limitations and the organization intend to speak to their target audiences' passions, engage them, give them a call to action and show them how to resist the idea that they are limited in any way.
Melanated PEARLs are Passionate Engaged Activist Resisting Limits
Our mission is to educate, uplift, and empower our clients by providing programming, access, resources, and funding opportunities.
The programs and content we produce help uplift our communities by capturing the needs and stories of our target audiences and then connecting them to meaningful programming; we educate and grow our community by sharing resources and implementing initiatives that make women of color feel confident and accomplished; and we empower our clients by providing captivating and relatable stories, that model and celebrate their journey as they learn to take control of their personal, professional, and financial future.
PEARL is an acronym meaning Passionate Engaged Activists, Resisting Limitations and the organization intend to speak to their target audiences' passions, engage them, give them a call to action and show them how to resist the idea that they are limited in any way.
Melanated PEARLs are Passionate Engaged Activist Resisting Limits
- Melanin-Inspired
- Equity-focused
- Legacy-builders
- Action-seekers
- Neighborly-networkers
- Admiring-observers
- Talent-sharers
- Educational-advocates
- Dedicated-developers
- Secure Housing & Basic Needs
- Close the Skills and Funding Gap
- Build Wealth and Economic Stability
- Manage Health and Wellness
Educate | Uplift | Empower
Passionate Engaged Activists, Resisting Limitations
Melanated Pearl making food deliveries. June 2021
There is this assumption that the conversation about Black women and girls is happening at a nonprofit somewhere, in some community, or at some other organization. It turns out, that just hasn’t happen and or isn't happening enough. We get into the habit of deferring conversation about women and girls into perpetuity.
UNTIL NOW!
Many of the circumstances that we’ve come to accept as justifying an exclusive focus on men and boys are in fact directly related to the social-economic challenges facing their mothers and those, in turn , are directly related to some of the challenges facing girls. We have an opportunity to break the cycle of by assisting women through purposeful programs that improve ones quality of life.
UNTIL NOW!
Many of the circumstances that we’ve come to accept as justifying an exclusive focus on men and boys are in fact directly related to the social-economic challenges facing their mothers and those, in turn , are directly related to some of the challenges facing girls. We have an opportunity to break the cycle of by assisting women through purposeful programs that improve ones quality of life.
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Meet our Founder, Crystal PerryCrystal Perry is a wife, mom, educational leader with 20 plus years of experience, and founder of the non-profit, Melanated PEARL Corporation. By nature I am pretty intense. I am loud. I am a women of color. I am a mother. I am a wife. I am an advocate for children. I speak with confidence and have a tone of voice that I've been told can be intimidating during a first encounter. I was raised in the Georgia South by both parents during a time when drugs and alcohol were strategically placed in communities of color. I’ve experienced the pressures of being a first generation college student, while being a teen mother of multiple children (twins) with various learning difficulties and medical needs. I've experienced racism, sexism, discrimination, self doubt, academic pitfalls and business failures and learned an immense amount from it. Those experiences were preparing and developing me as I transitioned into a P.E.A.R.L. - Passionate Engaged Activist Resisting Limitations |
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Are you a PEARL?Melanated Pearl Corporation honors the Black female experience, acknowledging that those girls born with visible melanin have to overcome a specific set of challenges, barriers, and hurdles unlike any other female group. Pearl symbolizes the beauty and value of women in general to take in oppression, abuse, denial, pain, deception, poverty (the list is endless) and turn it into something strong, resilient, priceless, beautiful... |