GIRLS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC
All Kinds Of Powerful
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
There are 25 million K-12th grade girls in the United States. If you combine the efforts of all national girl-serving organizations, we are only reaching about three million, or about 12% of girls. That means 22 million girls in the US aren’t being reached. Girls Leadership’s bold goal is to close that gap. Girls Leadership is collaborating with other organizations to elevate the girl-serving field, deepen our knowledge, and broaden our reach so that every single one of those 25 million girls has the awareness, skills and confidence to live as everyday leaders.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Girls’ Programs
Our girls programs provide opportunities for girls to meet other girls, have fun, get creative., and exercise the power of their voice. We currently offer direct service programs to girls’ in grades 5-8 and 9-12. These programs include:
Power Labs -: Partnerships with schools where girls and Girls Leadership staff co-design curriculum, activities, and pedagogical approaches that center the needs of the most marginalized girls. What we learn from the girls is turned into lesson plans, curriculum, and training for all the teachers addressing social and emotional learning in the school.
Empower Club - A welcoming community where girls can have fun, learn leadership skills, and connect with peers across the country to exercise the power of their voice.
Girl Advisory Board - Girls use skills, leadership ability, and empowered minds acquired from Girls Leadership to inspire the next generation of Girls Leadership participan
Professional Development Trainings
Our professional development trainings provide spaces and opportunities for K-12 and youth service professionals to connect and collaborate in learning. Our learning opportunities are hands-on, and equip educators and program staff with tools, resources, and practices that they can bring directly into their work. Topics this past year included:
How to Create Brave Spaces That Center Gender and Racial Equity
Power Collaborative: Social and Emotional Learning Strategies
Circle Up + Reset: Support for Teachers and Youth Development Professionals
Bringing Gender and Racial Equity to Social-Emotional Learning
Collective Belonging - Social-Emotional Learning Strategies for Gender and Racial Equity
Social-Emotional Learning Check-Ins for in-person and distance learning
Why and How to Center Gender and Racial Equity in Social-Emotional Learning
Trauma-Informed Practice and Healing-Centered Engagement
Family-Based Program
Offerings are for girls in grades K–12 and their parents or caregivers. They bring together our signature games, essential social-emotional skills, and a brave space to build community.
Girl & Grown-Up Workshops - Our workshops give girls and their parents a brave space to laugh and have fun together while learning about friendships, feelings, apologies, and healthy approaches to conflict.
Parent & Caregiver Webinars - This talk addresses the new challenges our girls are facing and offers a reflection on how to lay the foundation for wellness, voice, and influence.
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Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
1) Girls Leadership works not only with girls, but also with their primary influencers – parents, teachers, and caregivers – to create sustainable impact. Studies show parents and teachers to be the most powerful teachers for girls all the way through high school.
2) We put social and emotional learning (SEL) at the foundation of all our leadership development.
3) We see girls’ real-life, every-day relationships with friends and family as the primary opportunity we have to teach girls the leadership skills that will serve them over a life-time: self-advocacy, negotiation, compromise, personal responsibility and conflict as an opportunity for change.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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GIRLS LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC
Board of directorsas of 08/23/2022
Wendi Williams
Emily Pillars
No Affiliation
Term: 2019 - 2022
Regina Manzana-Sawhney
Karina Cabrera-Bell
Accenture
Resa Caivano
Kaiser
Darolyn Davis
D&A Communications
Pat Gillette
Orrick
Aditi Goel
P16 Partners
Renae Griffin
GCM Grosvenor
Maria Kiskis
Julie Keshmiry
Intel
Coni Frezzo
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
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