For 28 Years Black Women for Wellness has been committed to promoting the health and wellbeing of Black Women and Girls! We do this through education and advocacy while empowering Black Women and girls to build personal, communal and political power within California by influencing public policy, organizing, and outreach.
BWW primarily serves communities located in Los Angeles County SPAs 6 and 8, including Leimert Park, South Los Angeles, Inglewood, Watts, Compton and Wilmington.
The environmental justice issue our community faces is over exposure to toxic chemicals in the built environment. BWW works with partner organizations to eliminate neighborhood oil drilling in LA City and LA County, by educating people about the impacts of toxic chemicals on individual and community health as well as highlighting the connections between over exposure to toxic chemicals and reproductive health & injustice.
In 2025-2026, BWW, Rising Communities(RC) and SCOPE will collaborate on a shared vision to empower a group of dedicated community leaders impacted by oil drilling and specifically the Inglewood Oil Fields(IOF) to actively shape the future of their neighborhoods by working on an equitable phase out, remediation, and redevelopment of the oil field. We will create a community-driven process that prioritizes environmental justice, public health, and equitable land use. We are seeking funding to support this important initiative.
During 2024 BWW led a comprehensive public health education campaign ‘Bad Neighbors’ in collaboration with Sunstone Strategies and the Waverly Foundation highlighting the health issues urban oil drilling causes for families in South LA which uplifted community’s desire to be engaged through a delegation.
Some campaign activities included the design and creation of a landing page, mirror decals, placemats, sticky notes, street posters, coffee sleeves, billboards, programmatic ads, KBLA radio ads, door-to-door canvassing, phone banking and text banking.
The Bad neighbors campaign, ‘No Drilling’ landing page received 6 million impressions, over 10 million with social media shares and 9000+ website visits. Through Billboards, Programmatic Ads, Radio Ads and digital ads we received approximately 5,256,590 impressions.
BWW distributed Mirror decals, placemats, street posters, and coffee sleeves to various small businesses and circulated 174,160 Street posters & coffee sleeves.
Through phone banking and door knocking we engaged 16,059 households. BWW received resident sign ons, media hits and community members expressing their happiness towards us uplifting their lived experience with toxic neighborhood oil drilling and our ongoing advocacy.
Black Women for Wellness seeks continued funding to strengthen our organizing against neighborhood drilling and to support impacted residents, while also amplifying our message and expanding opportunities to educate students across educational institutions.