Our Mission: Blessons for Women provides free mentorship, educational workshops and wellness clinics for all women, in addition to scholarships to disadvantaged, low-income women who are 25 years or older and who have had their higher education interrupted due to challenging life lessons such as; cancer, mental health conditions, physical or emotional abuse, sex trafficking or who are first generation female immigrants.
Our Vision: Advancing women economically through skilled trades.
"When you're able to view painful lessons as blessings, they become blessons. Instead of getting back, GIVE back." - Founder, Blessons for Women
Funded by donations with an intent to provide scholarships to women 25 years of age or older who are need of resources in completing their education and advancing their career in skilled trades. Blessons Scholarships for Women Awards can help them fund their tuition expenses through community colleges, trade schools, vocational and tech programs. Assistance is also available for CE courses to maintain an active license or certification. Life gets in the way for a number of women. Challenging life lessons often places a hold on advancing professionally due to limited resources. Obtaining a skilled trade certificate, license or entering a program in order to advance economically, can be cost-prohibitive to do so.
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Join our charity team at the 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday, Oct 13th.
We have filled all our 2024 charity race entries! Please click the link below to be placed on the wait list for our 2025 charity team.
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Join us at the 2024 Bank of America Chicago Marathon at Aid Station 09!! Support our charity in receiving a donation for providing volunteers to pass out water and Gatorade to runners.
Advancing Women Advances the World
Scholarships towards skilled trade programs.
Women Thriving Through Skilled Trades
Why Women?
Our Values: We believe that:
Women need to be treated with dignity, respect and honesty,
Women deserve to be happy and healthy,
Women should be empowered and self-sufficient,
Women should explore and develop their spiritual side,
Women deserve to learn and work together to develop their SOCIAL, SPIRITUAL and ECONOMIC POTENTIAL.
Intercultural exchanges, break down stereotypes, expand horizons and raise consciousness,
If you educate a Woman you educate a Family,
Community is essential to personal growth and in fostering women as agents of change.
Financial Assistance Towards Continuing Education including Certifications, CE Courses and Licensing.
Blessons Scholarships for Women Program
We support women who are in need of financial support towards their continuing education and training in order to improve their economic status.
Blessons Scholarships for Women applications are accepted until the 25th of each month in 2024 starting January 1st. There will be 12 scholarship opportunities up to $1,000, one for each month (Jan. - Dec. 2024).
We encourage accredited Trade, Vocational & Tech School/Program female students to apply.
Blessons mission is meant for women who have a vision to succeed in spite of obstacles. The most important aspect for many women is their family. This is especially true if they happen to be older women. For ladies who have taken time to raise a family either before they entered college or sometime after they did, returning to school to better themselves and their job prospects can become expensive in a hurry.
One of the main reasons why many non-traditional female students cannot finish is due to experiencing challenging life lessons including financial hardship. Many skilled trade jobs require continued education courses to maintain an active license and certificate in their fields. Scholarships and financial aid assistance for returning students and working skilled trade professionals are in need and not many exist.
Learn the skills that will advance you economically.
PRITTY KITTY DESIGNS, INC. IS APPROVED BY THE ILLINOIS BARBER, COSMETOLOGY, ESTHETICS, AND NAIL TECHNOLOGY BOARD TO SPONSOR CONTINUING EDUCATION TOWARD LICENSE RENEWAL WITHIN THE ILLINOIS LICENSING LAW
Scholarship Award Recipient Testimonials
HANNAH OLLER, SOCIAL WORKER & YOGA INSTRUCTOR
LaShaundra Barnes, Business Administration Program
Tatiana Lukac, Nursing Program
Ashley Gates - Business Administration Program
Anea Johnson, Integrative Studies Program
SHI BAI, Massage Therapy Program
yAQIN SHEN, Massage Therapy Program
Cindy Schuman, Welding Program
Free Professional Development Workshops & Wellness Clinics
From personal branding tips to mock interviews to learning self-defense tactics!
Free Mentorship For Women by Women: "What's Your BS?" - A Women's Blessons Story
Blessons Women’s Circles
FREE SUPPORT: Our Women Only circles provide therapeutic group support, coping skills examination, relaxation techniques practice, self-exploration, exposure to different perspectives, opportunity to practice social skills, empowerment and inspiration.
Mental Health Program for Women
A safe space where women who care about meaningful connections and self-love gather to support, inspire, and learn from each other’s Blessons.
Join the "What's Your BS?" online community!
Do you have an empowering story to share? Our free mentorship program is a safe community of women who empower each other by sharing their stories of blessings that were inspired from challenging life lessons as an additional resource of mentorship for women, by women. They do so, both personally and collectively, with the assistance of gifted educators and mentors, and a powerful network of their peers.
Blessons is dedicated to empower women of all ages through monthly personal and professional development workshop, provided for FREE. We value the importance of building self-confidence in a woman and providing them with resources in order to guide them in discovering and fulfilling true potential through several diverse events within our Community Engagement Program.
We believe that education sets in motion a virtuous spiral: girls and women gain greater knowledge, skills, self-confidence and capabilities, improving their own life prospects—and, in turn, an educated woman provides better nutrition, health care, and education for her family. Education enables a woman to take greater control of her life and gain inclusion in decision-making processes, which unleashes her potential to contribute socially and economically to her family’s and community’s well being.
Blessons free programs including our mentorship, workshop and scholarship programs are provided to empower all women including those women who have suffered from challenging lessons including sex crimes and physical and emotional abuse. There are many groups of women who simply cannot handle having men participating in class/workshop with them. They may be victims of rape and abuse. ... (Exclusion) is not done to discriminate men, it is done to respect the women. Thank you for your understanding and respecting the women we provide our free services to.
We thank the following trade schools, tech/vocational programs, colleges and universities for their support in sharing our scholarships, volunteer and internship opportunities to their students.
