🎉 Celebrate Root Co-Founder Angela Berkfield’s Birthday and Legacy with us! A FUNdraiser supporting The Black Youth Scholarship Fund!
All are welcome to mingle, dance 💃🏾 and celebrate our dear Angela with us!
Come share a meal 🍽️ (bring a dish if you can!), enjoy the grill, dance to good music 🎶, and connect with community 🤝🏾. Learn about The Black Youth Scholarship and how you can contribute to its continued impact.
When: Saturday June 21st, 5pm–8pm
Where: Kiwanis Shelter at Living Memorial Park (Memorial Park Upper Loop Trail, West Brattleboro)
Learn more about The Black Youth Scholarship Fund at therootsjc.org/black-youth-scholarship
About the event
The Angela Berkfield Birthday Party and Black Youth Scholarship FUNdraiser Kickoff is to bring awareness and support for The Black Youth Scholarship Fund, (which will begin in 2026) while celebrating the birthday of our late Angela Berkfield. Angela’s Birthday is June 27, she would have been 48 years old.
The plans are to have an annual event to raise funds for the next year’s round of scholarships. Any money collected will go to the scholarship fund and planning of next year’s event. Since this is a kick off this year’s event will look different.
Next year the plans are to have the scholarships given out at this event. We plan to have live music, and possibly catered food with a ticketed event, with no one turned away.
What to expect this year
Event will happen rain or shine
There will be a car to bring folks up the hill if needed
This is a potluck event
The Root will provide grillable foods, drinks and dessert
We will have the large speaker and be playing some of Angela’s favorite tunes
Folks will eat, mingle and dance
The Youth will present about The Scholarship
Folks will be asked to get involved and sign up for committees if desired
Folks will be asked to donate what they can
Memorial Park and its pool will be open from 1-6:30pm that day. Come swim and then join us for the celebration.