The Makings of You Foundation creates sacred spaces where women—particularly Black women—can uncover the healing within, release burdens, build resilience, and live with purpose and joy.

Our programs turn this mission into meaningful experiences:

Soul Therapy™ brings women together for healing-centered conversations, mindfulness, journaling, reflection, and connection.

Medicine Is Movement™ uses tennis, yoga, Pilates, walking, and other forms of movement to promote physical wellness, emotional well-being, community, and joy.

The Professor Derise Tolliver Scholarship honors a remarkable educator’s legacy by investing in a deserving woman’s educational journey.

Our annual Legacy in Bloom Gala Celebration brings these parts of our mission together. This signature gathering honors matriarchs, celebrates the women whose wisdom and sacrifices shaped us, and raises essential funds to sustain and expand our work.

Your donation will help us deliver quality programs, provide materials and wellness experiences, support our scholarship, welcome more women into healing-centered spaces, and produce the annual Legacy in Bloom celebration.

Whether you make a one-time gift, become a recurring donor, or share this campaign with others, you are helping build a community where Black women have the support and space to heal, move, connect, and thrive.

Please join us.

Together, we can transform intergenerational trauma into purpose, resilience, wellness, and joy.

Healing, Movement & Legacy: Helping Women Build Resilience and Live with Purpose and Joy

Supporting healing-centered programs for Black Women and our annual Legacy in Bloom Gala Celebration