The fourth annual AmeriCorps Week, taking place May 8-15, 2010,.provides the perfect opportunity for Girls Inc. to shine a spotlight and show appreciation for AmeriCorps members who go above and beyond their call of service to ensure that our girls grow strong, smart, and bold. Read more »
Give a “high-five” for girls rights with a $5.00 donation to Girls Inc. in support of Girls Rights Month, May 1-31. Your $5.00 will help underserved girls to build academic, career, and life skills that will expand their sense of what is possible.
Alameda County nominates Gap Inc. for the California Governor and First Lady's Medals for Service Award Nomination
Gap Inc. is a trailblazer in the field of corporate social responsibility. Through a variety of initiatives, Gap Inc. successfully leverages the time and talents of more than 134,000 employees, who are engaged as community leaders, organizing company-sponsored service events and acting as ambassadors for the company’s work in the community. Through the efforts of these community leaders and the commitment of all their employees, Gap Inc. Read more »
It is with great excitement that we announce Girls Incorporated is one of four youth education organizations selected to participate in the Sam’s Club Giving Made Simple campaign. This consumer voting initiative invites Sam’s Club Members to show their support for the country’s most respected nonprofit organizations focused on education and small Read more »
What is cyberbullying? "Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or teen repeatedly posts hurtful and disparaging remarks using the Internet, or mobile phones to publicly or privately cause that person grief, including: • Sending mean, vulgar, or threatening messages or images • Posting sensitive, private information about another person • Pretending to be someone else in order to make that person look bad Read more »
At a surface level, of course we’re excited about Kathryn Bigelow’s wins for Best Director and Best Picture at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday. After 81 years, more than 400 total nominees and only three other nominations for women, finally seeing a woman at the podium was the highlight of the three hour show. Read more »
The ING-Girls Inc. Investment Challenge, a cutting-edge nationwide program that gives girls practical, hands-on investing experience while allowing them to keep gains in the form of college scholarships, is nominated for The Financial Times-Justmeans Social Innovation Award for Most Strategic Philanthropy Program. The annual awards present a forum for organizations to highlight their latest concepts and practical applications to advance social needs and better business. Read more »
Last week, New York University Integrated Technology Program professor Clay Shirky published a blog rant that was picked up and discussed throughout the internet. Shirky, a male professor in a male-dominated academic program, lamented that women are “…bad at behaving like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks…self-promoting narcissists, anti-social obsessives, or pompous blowhards.” His fear was that although his program contains roughly equal nu Read more »
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