Dear Friends, I just returned from an amazing experience at the Keds’ Brave Life Summit, re-inspired to seize the opportunity of the back-to-school season. The Summit included an amazing lineup of speakers, including GLI co-founder Rachel Simmons, Fusion host Alicia Menendez, Tony winner Sarah Jones, and our own GLI educator, Maxine Lyle. All of these women shared personal stories with …

Dear Friends, Thank you for your incredible support! Together you donated $65,000, enough to bring a record 58 girls to our three-week Summer Program. Because of you, the Girls Leadership Institute community is stronger, more diverse, and more inclusive than ever before. I can’t imagine a better foundation for the future of leadership.To catch a glimpse of the summer …

Dear Friends, Summer is here, and girls are  out of school. In Denver, our Day Camps are already in full swing, with more to follow in Boulder, Berkeley, and Palo Alto. In one week, our overnight camp kicks off at Mount Holyoke College. If you’ve been thinking of supporting our scholarship fund, this is the …

Dear Friends, Happy Mothers’ Day month! We have a special place in our hearts for the incredible moms in our community. Girls Leadership Institute (GLI) moms are our dynamic, daily faces of leadership; they bring our programs to their schools and communities, raise funds for us to provide scholarships and build capacity, and, most importantly, work hard …

Dear Friends, I want you to meet Amani. When she signed up for our spring break day camp three years ago, we were immediately taken with her quiet wisdom and passion for self-improvement.The feeling was clearly mutual: Amani fell in love with the freedom to be yourself that the Girls Leadership Institute community creates. By eighth grade, Amani set her sights on our three-week …

Dear Friends, Imagine a teacher who is unprepared to guide female students through relationship challenges, a parent whose daughter comes home in tears after being ignored by her friends all day, or a volunteer coach who is trying to build community with his team of third-grade girls. What if these teachers, parents, and coaches had …

Dear Friends, We are big fans of Valentine’s Day. At Girls Leadership Institute (GLI), Valentine’s Day is a winter reminder of Love Notes, a Summer Program and Day Camp tradition dating back 13 years! Every day throughout the Summer Program and Day Camp, each participant writes notes to the other girls describing something she admires …

Dear Friends, Happy New Year! Thank you for the incredible outpouring of support for GLI in our year-end campaign. We experienced a record number of contributions, including more donations from program alumni than ever before, for a total of $40,000! This support will help us develop new programs, bring our current programs into new communities, …

Dear Friend, Thank you for being part of Girls Leadership Institute’s community this year. As we look forward to 2014, we are thrilled to serve 10,000 participants, launch our research and content-sharing initiatives, and provide even more fully-funded programs for girls. We have planned 2014 with you in mind, because in order to reach our …

Dear Friend, Imagine what it’s like to be a girl in 2013. Girls are consuming more than ten hours of media every day and receiving a consistent message: the thinner, prettier, and sexier you are, the more attractive and liked you’ll be. At a time when girls have access to more forms of media than …