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The mission of Rwanda Girls Initiative is to educate and empower girls of Rwanda to reach their highest potential.

Girls Inc. Limestone provides life-skills group education and mentoring programs for girls, and is at the heart of girls' lives and the forefront of the girls' rights movement. With programs that are grounded in research and tested in the field, our organization celebrates and empowers girls and young women, and advocates for an equitable world. The compelling voices and perspectives of girls and women are woven throughout our work. Our ongoing programs include: ~ School Group Program - serving 700 girls and young women annually ~ Summer Day Camp Program ~ serving 100 girls annually ~ After School Program - serving 50 girls annually ~ Skills Link Employment Readiness Program - Serving 50 young women annually ~ Money Smart Moms Program - serving 100 young women annually ~ Ongoing support and information exchange for all girls and young women in our community

Foundation for Girls is on a mission to engage, educate and empower 2500 disadvantaged girls by 2020, in the greater Charlotte community. We work with disadvantaged girls who are survivors of human trafficking, foster care inequities, drug abuse, and homelessness. We focus on Nurturing the Leader in Every Girl! Through our uniquely designed hands-on out-of-school skills workshops and training, we have already engaged and supported more than 350 girls over the last two years and 250 girls in 2016. We empower girls to be strong, confident and independent. We believe that when we engage, educate, and empower a girl she becomes a catalyst for positive change that benefits her and everyone around her.

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.

Black Girls Can is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization empowering black girls and women owning, leading, creating, innovating, and inspiring in their communities and at large.   Black Girls Can helps foster the next generation of black girls and women into entrepreneurship, STEAM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics) and civic engagement by offering free hands-on educational programs, workshops, and events.

VOW for Girls is a growing global movement that partners with wedding professionals and leading wedding brands to join together to end the international child marriage crisis. 100% of the funds we raise are invested in effective but underfunded local efforts in communities around the world that advance girls’ rights by providing education, job training, and vital life skills, so girls can own their futures. VOW for Girls was inspired by love and won’t stop until every girl has the chance to live a life she loves.

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.

To support girls as they design their futures for successful womanhood.

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.

Mocha Girls Read mission is to enhance Black women’s personal reading experience by reading quality work written by a wide range of authors on various topics and across all genres. Mocha Girls Read will support literary events in person and onlineMocha Girls Read will provide an open forum for black women to exchange ideas and opinions by fellowshipping with other Black women who love to read in person and online. As well as networking with other book clubs, book bloggers, publishers, and literary organizationsMocha Girls Read will sponsor hosted online and in person, events to expose black women to literature. Mocha Girls Read will maintain a comprehensive website that will feature books, book bloggers and other book clubs.

Girls Action Foundation is a national charitable organization. We deliver innovative youth programs and activate a national network of over 230 partnering organizations that empower girls and young women to create positive change in their communities. Our work impacts more than 60,000 girls and young women from coast to coast. We reach remote, marginalized and urban communities, including those in the North.