Help BWC Expand What Community Wellness Can Make Possible.
BWC is raising $25,000 to expand community programming, support entrepreneurs and practitioners, build staff capacity, and keep this Black woman-owned creative wellness space operating in Bed-Stuy.
"This is not just a wellness space. It is proof that Black women deserve rooms built around our rest, creativity, leadership, and joy."Paris Alexandra, Founder
This campaign supports BWC directly while we build toward our nonprofit arm. Contributions are not currently tax-deductible.
Help expand programming, support entrepreneurs, and keep BWC moving.
Give + Receive an Experience
Choose a set contribution level and receive a BWC experience as our thank-you.
See Contribution LevelsUnderstand the Full Impact
See the campaign goals, timeline, community impact, and how the $25K will be put to work.
Explore the Impact PlanYour support helps BWC expand programming, create opportunities for entrepreneurs and practitioners, build the staff capacity needed to grow, and keep the space operating.
Give today. Support the work and receive an experience.
Choose a contribution level below to support BWC and receive the listed experience as our thank-you. Every payment helps expand programming, support entrepreneurs, and strengthen the space.
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Join Us for an Experience
Join us at one of our curated events as our guest.
Private 1:1 Wellness Experience
Enjoy a 60-minute wellness experience designed to restore and recharge.
Wellness With Your Besties
Gather up to 15 of your besties for a private 60-minute wellness session.
Create Your Own Wellness Experience
Work with us to design a personalized wellness experience just for you and your group.
Community Gathering Rental
Host your next community gathering in our beautiful space at 704 Dekalb Avenue.
The BWC Retreat Experience
Enjoy a curated half-day retreat, up to four hours, designed for your group.
Custom Multi-Day Wellness Experience
Partner with BWC to create a larger custom wellness experience, on-site or on location, designed across multiple days. A legacy gift that anchors the next chapter of this work.
After payment, our team will follow up by email to coordinate your experience. Experiences are subject to scheduling availability.
What the $25K Will Build.
This campaign gives BWC the support needed to expand programming, support entrepreneurs, build staff capacity, and keep the space operational.
$8KProgrammingExpand Community Programming
More BWC-led wellness, creative, and community experiences, including Dear Black Women and accessible programming rooted in rest, creativity, and connection.
$6KEntrepreneursSupport Entrepreneurs + The BWC Collective
Paid opportunities, programming, and resources for entrepreneurs, practitioners, facilitators, and creatives to grow their work through BWC.
$6KStaff SupportProgramming + Staff Support
Administrative and programming support for events, communications, partnerships, scheduling, and the day-to-day work required to grow.
$5KSpace OperationsKeep the Space Open + Operational
Rent, utilities, insurance, supplies, maintenance, and the physical infrastructure that makes all programming and community work possible.
NYC is losing the spaces that hold us.
Rising rents and operating costs are closing independent community spaces across the city. When a space like this disappears, a neighborhood loses more than square footage. It loses programming, relationships, trust, and belonging that took years to build.
A creative wellness home.
- A multicultural home base where entrepreneurs and practitioners build their businesses, grow their brands, and root their community
- Programming that centers Black women and welcomes everyone who gathers around them
- Space for the people the wellness and creative industries have historically overlooked: the unseen, the unheard, the underrepresented
- A gathering place for diverse events, activations, and experiences across cultures and generations
- A future nonprofit arm for access and scholarships
Your gift builds capacity.
- Funds more community-centered wellness and creative programming
- Creates opportunities for entrepreneurs, practitioners, and facilitators
- Supports admin and programming capacity behind the scenes
- Keeps the physical space operational so the work can continue
Rare spaces are worth protecting.
BWC opened in 2023, built on more than a decade of community work in Brooklyn. In that short time it has become what most spaces never manage to be: a room that reflects people back to themselves. Black, Brown, and multicultural. Plus-size and every size. Artists, educators, founders, students, parents, and people still figuring it out.
This is a room people describe as "where I found my people." That is what you are protecting, and this campaign makes sure it keeps growing instead of just surviving, while laying the groundwork for a nonprofit arm that expands access through scholarships and community programming.
Paris Alexandra navigated teen homelessness and 16 schools before yoga, poetry, and community changed her life. She became Nike's first global plus-size yoga athlete, and on Juneteenth 2023 she opened BWC: a permanent home for everyone the wellness world overlooked. Your gift keeps that home open.
What your support builds
Every dollar connects to something real.
Signature Event
Dear Black Women
Expanded wellness and creative programming for Black women to rest, reflect, connect, and be held.
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Immersive Programming
Retreats and Experiences
More collective-led classes, workshops, retreats, and experiences facilitated by BWC practitioners, creatives, and wellness leaders.
Explore Retreats
Community Infrastructure
The Space Itself
704 Dekalb Avenue is the infrastructure behind the work. Your support helps keep the space staffed, scheduled, maintained, and open.
See the SpaceBWC deserves more than survival. It deserves capacity.
Your contribution helps BWC expand programming, support entrepreneurs and practitioners, build the staff capacity needed to grow, and keep this rare space open for the community.
The Brooklyn Wellness Club · 704 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216
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