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Cool Girls is dedicated to the self-empowerment of girls in low-income neighborhoods. We provide the path of potential success by showing them how to make positive choices. These tools allow the girls we serve to achieve academic success, break the cycle of teen pregnancy and poverty and the ability to overcome the barriers of racism and sexism. Our program allows girls to gain confidence in her and provides herself with a broader view of the world. We offer the tools to help our girls live healthy and productive lives through academic support, health and life skills development, mentoring relationships, and field trips. Cool Girls, Inc. is able to give low-income girls a chance to become a successful educated woman. Founded in 1989, Cool Girls started as a small girls? club in the East Lake Meadows housing development, a community with a notorious reputation for violence. The girls involved named their new club ?The Cool Girls of East Lake? and Cool Girls was born. The agency?s philosophy of working closely with girls living in low-income areas to identify their needs and provide programs to address those needs was also established during this time. The work of Cool Girls is unique and effective. It is our vision to create a learning environment where girls are empowered to succeed in academic, social and professional arenas. By taking a comprehensive approach to developing girls we understand that each of our program components are necessary and interrelated to the others. Our Multi-level model for reaching girls in need will be implemented in 11 school sites in DeKalb and Fulton Counties, reaching over 500 girls from low-income communities during the 2005-2006 school year.

Edu-GIRLS seeks to address the unique challenges to delivering education to girls created by social and gender bias in poverty affected households. In such households, with both parents trying to earn a living, girls are often held back from school to take care of the household or look after younger siblings or even to add to the meager family income through menial work. Edu-GIRLS approach customizes delivery methods to achieve success in such a setting, where few resources are devoted to the girl child.We do not stop at increased primary enrollment. We do not stop at achieving high rates of high school completion. We extend ourselves to ensure that girls have acquired skills for good jobs.We go all the way to financial independence.

To break the cycle of poverty by providing girls with continuous social, emotional and academic support.

Empower and support youth through empowerment programs for all youth and supporting basic needs for youth facing poverty.

Alliance for Girls is the largest regional alliance of girls' organizations in the country. We represent 100+ organizations that collectively support 300,000 girls and young women across the San Francisco Bay Area. Our mission is to mobilize girls' champions to address barriers facing girls, create conditions for their success, and advance systemic change to achieve equity.

Girls Going Global empowers girls to be global citizens by providing the tools, mentorship, and educational experiences, to make their mark on the world.

Girls Rock Athens is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering girls and women of all backgrounds and abilities through music education, creation, and performance. We provide leadership opportunities, build self-esteem, and provide girls with a safe place to express themselves.

The Girls Justice League seeks to change the directional so that girls are directly impacting the systems that hold such enormous power over their futures. All too often, girls, young women and those who identify as female, particularly girls of color and those from low income communities, find the direction of their lives impacted and dictated by myriad systems and institutions, including juvenile justice, public education, workforce development, public health and human services, and child welfare. The Girls Justice League is a collective of young women and their allies working to build and reinforce a culture where girls are fully empowered and where gender, race, and other disparities are identified and confronted in the systems that affect their futures.

Global Girls mission is to equip girls of color with skills that nurture their individual growth and inspire them to use their talents for positive change in their communities and throughout the world. We provide a safe space where participants learn performance, communication and social/emotional skills. Our curriculum is grounded in positive youth development best practices stemming from research in child and adolescent development. The overwhelming consensus is that youth need the following key assets to thrive and become healthy productive adults: 1. Safe environment 2. Supportive environment 3. Interaction 4. Engagement 5. Youth-centered policies and practices 6. High expectations The lessons helps youth develop critical thinking skills as they investigate their issues and seek solutions. Each program participant acquires dance, acting and story crafting skills while also reinforcing essential habits such as resiliency, empathy, self-discipline and grit. The result is socially conscious, youth-driven theatre that gives voice to participant's issues and concerns.