Wearing BIG Hats

Wearing Big Hats  is a non profit organization developed by founder and executive director, Aziza Lisa with a mission to create solutions that will empower communities through education, philanthropy and community service. 

 

We offer programs in reading and literacy, film and media education, culinary culture, self care, home care, Parenting, and sewing.

 

We also have events that help to empower the community.  Our Vision Board Party offers motivation and direction in goal planning.  Our fall/winter Awards - Fashion gala is designed to recognize people and nonprofit organizations that are doing 'Big Things' or 'Wearing Big Hats' in the community by giving back.  This event as well as our spring/summer fashion show are also events that help us to celebrate our program participants and raise funds for our organization.

 

The idea for the name 'Wearing BIG Hats' was born out of a tea party that my daughter and I put together years ago for my Grandmother (who at the time was 98), may she rest in power. The ladies in our family were invited to Grandmother's house - for tea, food and wisdom, shared by the elders in the family.   Since we come from a line of Women who love hats and who wear many hats, with my Mother being the true 'Hat Diva'; owning too many hats to count and balancing more responsibilities than the average person, we asked everyone to wear a hat. 

 

The Women in our family have played a big role in instilling values, principals and shaping good character in those in our family, for us to stand on and grow from.  

I created the name 'Wearing Big Hats' as the name for the tea party that metaphorically encompassed what the tea party would represent.  

 

Since that tea party years ago, the name Wearing Big Hats stayed with me.  I began to envision an organization that represented (women and men) who are Wearing Big Hats in the community and making a difference in the lives of others.  The name of the gathering we had to honor the matriarchs in our family, had evolved years later in my mind.  The name's meaning and purpose began to grow into something much bigger for me.

 

I became driven on a mission.  My vision was to honor and help many others through a non profit organization that I would also name 'Wearing Big Hats'.  The WBH mission is not only to honor others giving back to the community, but also to offer programs that build and strengthen those in the community, giving them skills, education and love to empower them and motivate them to do great things.  We look forward to growing in this mission to become as innovative and creative as possible to reach, teach and uplift many lives.

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