Our Mission:
Rob’s Barbershop Community Foundation provides comprehensive management for donors who support projects that make grooming services accessible to targeted populations with barriers to regular hygienic care.
AS OF YEAR-END 2023…
Number of projects performed to date: 49
Number of individuals served: 17,698
Number of haircuts performed: 23,174
Number of hairstyles performed: 4,024
Number of other grooming services performed: 4,983
Number of individuals able to attend their job interviews with a neat and clean appearance: 4,178
Number of individuals able to attend their new place of employment with a neat and clean appearance: 3,544
Number of individuals able to attend school with a neat and clean appearance: 8,281
OPERATING PROJECTS SINCE MARCH 2000!
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2024 PROJECTS
ARUNDEL GROOMING PROJECT
RBCF installed a full-service barber/beauty salon onsite at Arundel High School in Odenton, Maryland. The onsite shop will make no-charge grooming services accessible to students with barriers to regular hair care.
Project underwriters:
Enterprise Holdings Foundation
Walmart Foundation
Wegmans Crofton
T.I.M.E. GROOMING PROJECT
Five locations
RBCF installed three full-service single-station and two portable barber/beauty salon onsite at the T.I.M.E. Organization located in Baltimore and Glen Burnie. T.I.M.E. is an outpatient mental health clinic that provides supportive housing for adults and adolescents. The full-service barber/beauty salon will provide no-charge hair care to the 21% (or 923) of their clients who need access to regular grooming services.
Project Underwriter
Abell Foundation
CAMPUS HAIR PROJECT
RBCF works directly with students on college campuses who seek to make grooming services accessible to their classmates who lack access to regular hair care. We support college students with apprenticeships, opportunities, financial support, supplies, and technical assistance concerning safety and compliance. We are currently working with students on the campus of the Universities of Maryland and New Haven, and Bowie State University.
Project Underwriters:
Wal Mart Foundation
Jeffery McCroy
Gregory Darisaw
PROTECTIVE HAIR PROJET
RBCF partners with the Belo Consulting Group to increase the knowledge of targeted groups concerning Maryland’s version of the C.R.O.W.N Act. Under House Bill (HB) 1444/Senate Bill (SB) 531, Maryland employers are prohibited from discriminating against individuals based on “certain traits associated with race, including hair texture and certain hairstyles.
Project Underwriter:
Enterprise Holdings Foundation
Diane Bell McCoy
Pet Grooming Support Project
RBCF supports activities that make grooming support services accessible to target pet populations with barriers to regular hair care. Serval zip codes in the Baltimore metropolitan area do not have pet grooming salons in their neighborhoods. Therefore, RBCF seeks to provide supplies, equipment, and personnel to local pet shelters, programs, and grooming training sessions for citizens in low-income communities.
Barber Internship Project
RBCF is partnering with Kendricks Barbershop to remove barriers for Anne Arundel County Public School (AACPS) students seeking to enter the barbering profession. Currently, 34 AACPS students must still be selected to enter their barbering vocational program. Therefore, RBCF & Kendricks will provide waiting list students with the necessary training hours to qualify for their State Board of Barbers examination.
Helen J. Serini Foundation
Adam Matos
Virginia Diaz
Joann Price
United Way of Central Maryland
Louise Dejesu
A Wallace
Travis Lieb
Anthony Cornish
Janet Allen
Larry Stewart
David Gentry
Troy Green
Stanley Cates
RBCF COHORT PROJECT
This project was created in 2022 when RBCF assessed that grooming-related outreach from barber and beauty salons in Maryland fell 33% below the nation’s average. Therefore, in 2024, RBCF will also focus on expanding the public reach and scaling effective strategies for nine grooming professionals and their respective businesses. Each cohort member will work closely with RBCF, learning the program outcome model and other capacity-building methods. Each will be operating their respective projects in 2024. See the list below for the names of each member!
Neijae Graham, Future Barber – “Worlds Youngest Female Barber”
Cole Parker, Apprentice Barber
Zyier Deas, Apprentice Barber – Zipp Cutz
Marquis Kendricks, Master Barber – Kendrick’s Barbershop
LaTonya Savage, Senior Cosmetologist – DiJ’s Hair, Skin & Nails
Aisha McCray, Master Barber – AM Cutz
Kenneth “Kenny” Snow, Master Barber – Grateful Handz Barbershop
Chantay Ambrose, Cosmetologist – Channy Creationz
LaMiya Kirby, Apprentice Hairstylist – Joyce Essentials Beauty Supply & Natural Hair Suite
If you want to support this project or donate directly to an individual listed, please use the donation button below. If applicable, list the individual you want to directly support on your PayPal memo line.
Thank you in advance for your support!
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