Help Build A Sister's Keeper Foundation

Dear Community Member,

In the fall of 2009 my sister, Shanita Brown, was brutally murdered. For years, that sentence has been so difficult to form, because it simply hurts. For years, I have worked to rebuild my life and find meaning in the chaos. My life, has been full of that– chaos, growing up, my father was in and out of prison and mother struggled with addiction. This led to my siblings and I being split up, sent to live in different homes. I was exposed to a system that was broken. 

                                                                            Our youth deserve your support.

Many children go unnoticed, unattended and left to face a world unprepared. So many chaotic things can happen, and it simply isn’t right. In my adulthood, I sought counseling and guidance to make sense of all that has happened to me. I began a career in human services building pathways to success for children with origin stories like my own. One thing I learned, is that healing happens through avenues of hope and access to positive opportunities. 

                                                 We need your help to create these needed opportunities.

I founded A Sister’s Keeper Foundation (ASK) in honor of my sister, Shanita Brown- in honor of all of those children that need support and need someone to look out for them, to keep hope and opportunity alive. After a decade of serving as a youth advocate, mentor, and counselor to at-risk youth, low-income families and children within the foster care dependency system, I realized that Florida needed more youth-focused support and so I worked with community stakeholders to develop a scaffolding of supportive services, including counseling, mentorship and workforce development that enable youth to find their voice as community leaders.

                           Donate now to help us bring more training and supportive services to Tampa youth.
                                                                          $50 covers 4 hygiene kits for our participants.
                           $100 can provide 5 participants with meals. and school supplies, and a set of clothes.
        $250 covers a month of psycho-education and therapeutic services for a participant and their family.
                              $500 helps us pursue partnerships with community providers and strengthen our 
                                                                      Trainings, Workshops, Certificates, and Licences.

ASK’s programming is in its developing stages, and as such, we need your support. Keeping our doors open for a year costs $150,000. The seed funding we are raising now will help us keep the lights on as we build our resources. We’re pursuing all avenues of support, including corporate and foundation grants, but it all starts at home. Change happens on the home base, and that is why I'm asking you, to donate.

                                             Every dollar counts. Tell your friends, coworkers, neighbors.
                                                   Let’s do our part to build a brighter future for Tampa.

With Gratitude and Hope,
Natasha Brown
Founder, A Sister’s Keeper

PS. Visit our brand new website to learn more about our work: www.asisterskeeper.org

To learn more about my sister's case please visit: https://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2009/11/burned_body_identified_as_miss.html or visit:https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2018/01/04/family-pleads-for-tips-in-case-of-woman-murdered-burned-in-dumpster/