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GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA

aka Girls Inc. of Central Alabama   |   Birmingham, AL   |  www.girlsinccentral-al.org

Mission

Girls Inc. of Central Alabama inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold, providing girls throughout Central Alabama with life-changing experiences and solutions to the unique challenges girls face. The Girls Inc. Experience consists of people, an environment, and programming that, together, empower girls to succeed. Trained staff and volunteers build lasting, mentoring relationships in girls-only spaces that are physically and emotionally safe. Hands-on, research-based programs provide girls with the skills and knowledge to set goals, overcome obstacles, and improve academic performance. Informed by girls and their families, Girls Inc. also works with policymakers to advocate for legislation and initiatives that increase opportunities for girls.

Ruling year info

1971

President & CEO

Dr. Connie Hill

Main address

P.O. Box 130729

Birmingham, AL 35213 USA

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Formerly known as

Girls Club of Central Alabama

EIN

63-0328643

NTEE code info

Girls Clubs (O22)

IRS filing requirement

This organization is required to file an IRS Form 990 or 990-EZ.

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Communication

Programs and results

What we aim to solve

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Girls Inc. believes in powerful girls in an equitable society. We strive to provide resources, support, and opportunities for all participants through our centers and outreach efforts.

Our programs

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?

Center-based Programs

Girls Inc. offers after-school programming for girls in grades 1-8. Providing transportation from nearby schools, the program offers girls research-based programming including SMART (Science, Math, And other Relevant Technology), reading, life skills, economic literacy, and sports. Each summer, Girls Inc. provides a full-day camp experience at our Crestwood and Walker County locations. In addition to arts, sports, and field trips, our summer program includes educational enrichment in reading and math to prevent summer learning loss.

Population(s) Served
Women and girls
Children and youth

Community Impact Programs are available to the community through local schools and other youth-serving sites. Our trained educators provide age-appropriate classes designed to reduce risky behaviors, encourage positive life choices, and increase youth chances for success. We utilize research-based curricula, and some programs are available in Spanish. Program areas include: Health & Wellness, Life Skills Development, Job Readiness, Economic Literacy, Hispanic Initiative, and Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy.

Population(s) Served
Children and youth

Eureka! is a four-week science, technology, engineering and math camp hosted on the campus of UAB. This program includes adventure sports activities and personal development workshops. Rising 8th grade girls engage in a two-week hands-on session with an engineering professor and are exposed to other females with STEM careers. The girls visit college campuses, meet new friends, explore different career options, and are offered internship opportunities. The program continues throughout the school year.

Population(s) Served
Women and girls
Adolescents

Teen Leadership Program focuses on college preparation and career planning for high school students. Participants visit colleges, develop resumes, and learn leadership skills through community service. Local and national scholarships are available.

Population(s) Served
Women and girls
Adolescents

The Bold Futures Mentoring Project provides volunteer mentors for girls ages 9-14 residing in Birmingham and surrounding areas. The goal of the project is to help improve girls’ academic performance, school attendance, and increase girls’ competencies and skills to avoid or successfully handle harmful situations. It will also aim to teach girls positive decision-making skills about health, peer relationships, and overall life experiences. Girls participate in 2 hours of group mentoring weekly for a total of 48 hours. They also participate in 52 hours of programming facilitated by Girls Inc. staff. Key activities will include: setting and achieving goals, building healthy relationships, arts and crafts, science experiments, self-defense and personal safety, bullying and violence prevention, character-building, substance-abuse prevention, and other areas that present a need.

Population(s) Served
Women and girls
Children and youth

Girls Inc. Clubs are in-school Girls Inc. programming; they take place either during the school day as an elective class or immediately after school as a club. Girls Inc. Clubs are judge-free zone at schools where girls can gain confidence, make good friends, learn how to deal with others, build leadership and organization skills, and gain a sisterhood of support. This program takes place throughout the school year at various schools in Central Alabama.

Population(s) Served
Women and girls
Children and youth

Where we work

Affiliations & memberships

Girls Inc. 2023

Our results

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.

Number of girls served with holistic, high-impact experiences enabling them to grow up healthy, educated and independent.

This metric is no longer tracked.
Totals By Year
Population(s) Served

Women and girls, At-risk youth

Type of Metric

Output - describing our activities and reach

Direction of Success

Increasing

Context Notes

Girls Inc. creates trusting relationships through adult mentors/tutors with hands-on, minds-on experiences for girls that address their ability to grow up healthy, educated and independent.

Our Sustainable Development Goals

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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Goals & Strategy

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.

Charting impact

Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.

Today, girls continue to encounter significant obstacles to their well-being and success. 1 in 4 girls will not finish high school. 78% of girls are unhappy with their bodies by age 17. 3 in 10 girls will become pregnant before the age of 20. 1 in 5 girls will be a victim of childhood sexual abuse.

Girls Inc. meets these challenges by helping girls explore and celebrate their strengths, their voices, who they are today, and who they will become. Girls Inc. equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers and grow up healthy, educated, and independent. Girls build confidence and embrace positive decision-making to take charge of their health and well-being, and achieve academic, personal and career goals.

AS we embark on a new strategic direction, building from our current position of strength, our goals for the future include:
- Girls Inc. program framework will effectively deliver desired outcomes for girls
- Girls Inc. will have strong affiliates that are able to consistently deliver a high-quality Girls Inc. Experience.
- Girls Inc. will grow the number of low income girls served with the Girls Inc. program model.
- Girls Inc. will expand its impact by becoming a leading advocate for advancing the rights and opportunities for all girls.
- Girls Inc. will have the necessary resources, systems, and supports to be a data-driven and performance oriented network and external influencer.

Girls Inc. program framework will effectively deliver desired outcomes for girls: affiliates align behind a network-wide approach to reaching girls with an intensive, holistic approach that is distinctive to Girls Inc.

Girls Inc. will have strong affiliates that are able to consistently deliver a high-quality Girls Inc. Experience: affiliates align with common business practices and strategic goals to emphasize sustainability and risk mitigation, opening the way to innovative reach to new communities.

Girls Inc. will grow the number of low income girls served with the Girls Inc. program model: affiliates are recognized experts in their local areas, anchored into the fabric of the communities where they serve girls who most need the Girls Inc. Experience.

Girls Inc. will expand its impact by becoming a leading advocate for advancing the rights and opportunities for all girls: the network engages in advocacy at the national, state, and local levels, as appropriate, with a particular focus on the needs of girls from low-income communities and girls who face multiple, inter-sectional challenges such as those based on sex, race, ethnicity, immigration status, sexual orientation, and gender identity. We are committed to a "girls-centered" advocacy approach that prioritizes the lived experiences of girls in our network and lifts up their voices; we aim to empower girls with the tools necessary to be change agents in their communities and beyond.

Girls Inc. will have the necessary resources, systems, and supports to be a data-driven and performance oriented network and external influencer: The Girls Inc. Outcomes Measurement Strategy is designed to help us understand and showcase the measurable difference we make in the lives of the Girls Inc. girls. Gathering information about outcomes for girls will, over time, meet three important purposes for the Girls Inc. network:
- Mission accomplishment - how well are we working toward the Girls Inc. mission?
- Performance management - how well are we meeting our objectives?
- Evaluation - how do we know that we are having the impact we aspire to have?

Girls Inc. program framework will effectively deliver desired outcomes for girls: The program framework has been established and shared with all affiliates to drive planning.

Girls Inc. will have strong affiliates that are able to consistently deliver a high-quality Girls Inc. Experience: the business model has been established and shared with affiliates to bolster planning.

Girls Inc. will grow the number of low income girls served with the Girls Inc. program model: 17 affiliates have received more than $3M investment capital to expand; over the next three years 60 affiliates will receive more than $20M in investment capital.

Girls Inc. will expand its impact by becoming a leading advocate for advancing the rights and opportunities for all girls: the policy framework has been developed in conjunction with the Girls Advocacy Committee (girls) and Public Policy Committee (adults).

Girls Inc. will have the necessary resources, systems, and supports to be a data-driven and performance oriented network and external influencer: Girls Inc. has engaged an outside evaluator to conduct a quasi-experimental study of our aggregate outcomes data.

How we listen

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.

done We shared information about our current feedback practices.

  • How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?

    To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals

  • Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?

    We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us

  • What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?

    We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback

Financials

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Operations

The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.

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GIRLS INCORPORATED OF CENTRAL ALABAMA

Board of directors
as of 02/07/2024
SOURCE: Self-reported by organization
Board chair

Mrs. Rachel Lary

Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC

Term: 2024 - 2026

Elizabeth Crawford

Community Volunteer

Raquel Morgan Williams

Alabama Power Company

Tracy Bell

Iberia Wealth Advisors

Tania Terry

Honda Manufacturing of Alabama

Jennifer D. Berg

Discover Financial Servies

Julia Bernstein

Bradley

Rebecca Boohaker

Southern Research

Latia Coleman

Regions Financial Corporation

Jennifer DeLawrence

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama

Sierra Earle

Earle Law Firm

Marzette Fisher

Retired

Erika Hartman

Erika B. Hartman, DDS

Javan Patton

Jefferson County Circuit Court

Rod Reisner

McWane, Inc.

Russell Rutherford

Burr and Forman

Monique Shorts

City of Birmingham

Jess Smith

Regions Bank

Joni Wyatt

Kassouf

Tania Terry

Honda

Lance Parmer

SCA Health

Monica Stoudemire

Bridgeworth + Savant

Julie Ingram

Regions Bank

Andrea Haines

Crown Partners, Inc.

Daiquiri Steele

University of Alabama

Board leadership practices

SOURCE: Self-reported by organization

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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 ? Not applicable
  • 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? Not applicable

Organizational demographics

SOURCE: Self-reported; last updated 2/7/2024
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Leadership

The organization's leader identifies as:

Race & ethnicity
White/Caucasian/European
Gender identity
Female, Not transgender
Sexual orientation
Heterosexual or Straight

Race & ethnicity

Gender identity

Transgender Identity

Sexual orientation

Disability

Equity strategies

Last updated: 02/07/2024

GuideStar partnered with Equity in the Center - an organization that works to shift mindsets, practices, and systems to increase racial equity - to create this section. Learn more

Data
  • We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
  • We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
  • We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support.
  • We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
  • We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured.
  • We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
Policies and processes
  • We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
  • We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
  • We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
  • We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
  • We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.