Leslie Morris, Founder and CEO of Women of the Dream, was recently honored with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award during Simmons University’s 125th Anniversary Reunion Celebration. A proud member of the Class of 1975, Morris returned to her alma mater to...
Our 9th annual scholarship event, held on May 31st, was fun, inspiring, and always student-centered!
This special event highlighted the achievements of current and previous WOD scholarship recipients.
Women of the Dream held its annual STEM Conference for girls May 12th on the campus of Drexel University in Philadelphia! What a day! Close to 100 girls were exposed to careers in STEM in the areas of medicine, nursing, veterinary medicine, engineering, chemistry, web...
Women of the Dream is partnering with Campbell Soup Company to provide financial literacy classes to Women of the Dream participants. On January 24, 2023, Women of the Dream Life Skills participants traveled to Campbell Soup headquarters in Camden, NJ, for financial...
For the third year in a row, Women of the Dream provided a little over $1000 in cash to the girls in the Life Skills Program for holiday shopping for themselves and their families. This past holiday season, the girls were treated to a sit-down lunch followed by a...
Women of the Dream received $30,000 in grant funding from the Black Girls Freedom Fund! This highly competitive national grant aims to support work that advances the well-being of Black girls and their families, including work that centers and advances the power of...
The girls marching into the 2022 scholarship eventWomen of the Dream's school volunteers are rewarded for their hard work throughout the school year with cashLeslie Morris, Founder & CEO, Women of the Dream, address the audience at the 2022 scholarship eventParalee...
Women of the Dream continues to expose, nurture and empower our young girls. This past Sunday, July 11, the girls traveled to Stony Point, NY for the sixth annual picnic and pool party at the home of Tonya Love. Of all the activities we sponsor, the girls look forward to this one the most.
Leslie Morris, Founder/CEO, talks to Oprah Winfrey about Women Of The Dream during Oprah’s National Tour on February 8, 2020 In Brooklyn, NY.
Leslie Morris, Founder and CEO, receives Citizenship of the Year Award from the Nu Nu Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated at their Achievement Week Brunch on November 9th in Burlington, NJ.
WE DID IT! MATCH CHALLENGE ENDS! On behalf of the girls enrolled in Women of the Dream, thank you to our Anonymous donor who challenged WOD to dream bigger!
Women of the Dream girls attend the 2019 Scholarship and Awards Program at the KROC Center in Camden! Here the girls are sharing their affirmations.
Women of the Dream girls attend STEM conference for girls at Rowan University sponsored by partner organization National Coalition of 100 Black Women This year’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) Conference for Girls was thrilling and inspirational for the...
CNN's Symone Sanders was keynote speaker at Simmons University's Black Symposium in Boston. Eight Women of the Dream Girls traveled with Leslie Morris, Founder and CEO, and Katrina Squire, teacher, to the event in Boston.
Pictures from Women of the Dream’s 2018 scholarship and awards program at Campbell Soup Company in Camden, NJ. — in Camden, New Jersey.
The Boston 8 at Harvard Square on their first day in Boston. They took a tour of the famous Harvard University!
WOD Takes 42 Girls to Temple University for a Day of Empowerment Forty two girls representing four schools – Creative Arts Morgan Village Academy, Cream Family School, Veterans Family School, and Leap Academy, all in Camden, NJ – traveled to Philadelphia on Saturday,...
On MLK Birthday, January 16, 2017, 12 Women of the Dream girls from two of our partner schools - Cream Elementary School and Veterans Memorial Family School - traveled to Washington, D.C. to visit the MLK Monument and the new African-American Museum of History and...
Women of the Dream (WOD) sponsored its first Annual Scholarship Gala on June 9, 2017 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cherry Hill, NJ. Close to 150 people were in attendance, including 20 WOD middle-school girls representing four middle schools in Camden. WOD provided...
STEM 2017 was a great success! Over 100 girls from the Camden and Philadelphia areas attended the conference on May 5, 2017, on the campus of our partner, Drexel University in Philadelphia. Attendees engaged in hands-on activities involving technology and science;...
There was a time when young people - girls and boys - learned basic social and life skills in home economic classes at school. Unfortunately there has been a decline in home economics in public schools across the country. Through a partnership with TLC Charm School in...
On Wednesday, December 21st, Twenty-three WOD girls representing four schools in Camden, visited Campbell Soup for a holiday lunch, corporate workshop, and relaxation in the beautiful store and lounge of Campbell's. The girls began the day with pics in front of the...
Women of the Dream, in partnership with the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship in Philadelphia and with funding from the PNC Bank Foundation, hosted an entrepreneur training program for youth from July 11‐July 22, 2016.The objective of the program was to provide...
Close to 150 middle and high school girls, parents, and school officials attended our first Annual STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) conference on Friday, May 20th! Funded by PSEG Foundation and sponsored by WOD partners Drexel University, The National...
Close to 50 Women answered the call to Women’s of the Dream Informational Meeting for Prospective Mentors!Women of the Dream will launch a mentoring program for teen girls who reside in the City of Camden this fall. The mission of Women of the Dream’s mentoring...
The career workshop is an avenue through which our girls can explore their career interests and passions, what it takes to be successful in the workplace, and how to present for job interviews. This career workshop was held on February 3, 2016 at the headquarters of...
WOD teen girls Brianna, Tatyanna, Musique, and Shakeema attended the health and wellness event at Rutgers University-Camden on the evening of Feb 3, 2016. Hosted by the Camden Area Health Education Center, the girls were mesmerized by the message of keynote speaker...
WOD teen participants Maggie, Brianna, Tatyanna, and Alexis accompanied Leslie Morris, Founder/CEO, to Leslie’s alma mater, Simmons University in Boston, to participate in the Martin Luther King Breakfast held at Simmons University on January 21, 2016. It was an...
January 18, 2016 was a day of service in celebration of the birthday of Martin Luther King. Six WOD girls braved the cold to feed the homeless at the Rand Transportation Center in Camden. Engaging young people in community service is extremely empowering and...
Catalyst, Inc. interviewed Leslie Morris of Women of the Dream for National Mentoring Month. The interview covered such topics as the importance of mentoring, the inspiration behind WOD, and girls she has mentored through WOD. Click here to read the interview