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Girls, Inc
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Who We Are
Girls Inc. is the pre-eminent girls' leadership organization equipping girls to reach their full potential. For nearly 160 years,
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Our professionally trained staff and volunteers provide mentorship, safo spaces, and programming that address the unique challenges girls face and are proven to help girls succeed.
We cultivate physically and emotionally safe environments , Whore pris aro encouraged to taxo rises, learn trom experiencos, and grow. Girls build the knowledge, skills, and confdence to overcome the social and systemic barriers that threaten their wily to buccane.
What Girls Face
Girls are the leaders our future needs. Yet every day. girls encounter social and systemic barriers that threaten their ability to succeed, such as poverty, bies, health challenges and trauma. For girls in low-income communities and girls of color
*Wnio experience ovon greater inequides » the costscies are more significant. They disproportionately lack access to safe and supportivo schools, sports and ext acurrodiar acchmes, conee and career preparation, and economic opportunities.
We must prepare every girl to discover her strengths, find her power, and create change in her own life and the world around her.
What We Do
Whether after chool or during the school day, in person or and interactive leadership development to equip girls with the knowledge and skills to reach their full potential and the support
The combination of long-lasting mentoring relationships, a pro-girl environment, and evidence-based programming prepares girls noann, coucated, and indeponoon. inormod oy gins and thou families, Girls Inc. also advocates for legislation and policies to increase opportunities and rights for all girls.
Pro-girl, Affirming Environment
Physically and emotionally safe environments encourage girls to Trained staff and volunteers build mentoring relationships, serve an rolo models and provide continual care and guidance to girls
Girls Inc. Increases Opportunities For Girls While Making Society More Equitable For All Girls.
Prog amming addresses all aspects of a girl's life and has proven effective in developing the girl to be hesithy physically and mentally, educated through acadernic enrichment and support, and independent through life skills.
Policy And Advocacy
Girls Inc. works with girls to advocate for equity and social justice, as their most poworful selves and to be resilient leaders in their communities and beyond.
We advocate especially for the needs of girls from low-income communities and those who may face discrimination because of their gender, race, religion, ethnicity, immigration status, disability.
Our Impact
Girls Inc. changes the trajectory of girl lives and prepares them for life-long success.
According to the Girls Inc. 2022 Strone, Smart, and Bold Outcomes Survey, those participating in Girls Inc, programming are more likeiy to enage in healthru activitics lice exorcise and sports, achiovo higher standardized literacy, languago arts and mathematics test ecores; to see themeelves as leaders with the skills and capabilities to influence and improve their communities, and develop trusted relationships with their mentors.
77% of girls received As or B's in languago arts, and 69% of girls received As ce B'e in math.
81% of teen girls said they con make a positive difference in their communities.
The Future We See
We believe girle are capable and powerful now, and when they reach their full potential, they can do even more-they can change the world. The to demand positive changes for themselves. As leaders and advocates, theywill reshape their relationships and workplaces and advance equity and justice for all, even those in the most underserved communities, achieving the Girls Inc, vision of powerful girle in an equitable society.
Get Involved
Far too few giris have access to the life-changing Girls Inc. experience. Girls in the communities we serve, girls of color and girts from low-income families, disproportionately lack access to safe and supportive schools, sports and extracurricular
Your investment brings Girls inc. to more of the communities that need us most.
Your gift helps us provide girls with a vital foundation to create a better future for themselves and become role models in their families and communities.
Your support and influence helps advance policies that promote equity and open opportunities for all women and girls.
For more information contact: Email Communications visit girtsinc.org. To give, please go to girisinc.org/donate