Dear Friends, Are you as excited for summer as we are? Most of us here in the GLI offices are finishing up our summer camp planning, getting our summer hair cuts and packing our bags for two months on the east coast. Before the campers arrive we have an action-packed week of staff training for …
Dear Friends, Camps are blossoming all over! This week we are running a Day Camp for the students of The Young Women’s Leadership School in Brooklyn, then our first Summer Day Camp is breaking ground in Boulder, CO, followed by our flagship three-week overnight camp at Smith College (seven spots left!). Read below to learn …
Dear Friends, We are officially in spring mode. For some people this means taxes and crocuses, at GLI this means getting obsessed with Spring Break Day Camps. We are currently refining new workshops and putting the polishing touches on our scavenger hunts. We have three new characters to meet this year — the Drama Queen, …
Dear Friends, January rocked. We got to see 60 girls at our winter reunion, 134 girls signed up for summer camp, and 225 new families took part in our Real Parents, Real Daughters workshop series! When we weren’t teaching or working on new programs we were taking in some amazing new resources for supporting the …
Dear Friends, Drum roll, please….we have some major news about Summer Camp 2011! Read on for the exciting details. In the next month, we’ll invite all alumnae to return during a special registration period, followed by a welcome to new families to join us. Make sure that you’re in the loop for camp registration. Have …
Dear Friends, This month exceeded our wildest expectations: Shannon sang along with her ukelele in our pilot kindergarten and first grade program, Rachel piloted our workshops for college women at Smith College, and we moved into new offices to accommodate our expanding family. Does it get any better than that? Our office is now in …
Dear Friends, September rocked. Just to toot our own horn: we started running programs in two new markets (Colorado and New York), kicked off Rachel’s book tour with over 1500 people laughing at her jokes, AND added our new Community page to our website. It feels great to be back in the swing of the …
Dear Friends, What an August! We’re basking in the memories of so many amazing moments: hiking a Mesa at sunset, belting Journey songs in canoes during the pouring rain, applying face paint and writing chants for the end-of-camp water fight and bravely sharing honest feelings with roommates. It wasn’t easy to say goodbye to our …
Dear Friends, June is the time of year when we become singularly focused with one thing: summer camp. Summer camp is obsession-worthy—these are the precious moments of a girl’s life when she finds herself without family and friends and must ask: who am I really? How do I build real friendships? What do I like …
Dear Friends, April was a bi-coastal, jet-setting, action-packed month for GLI! We started in Brooklyn with our first free Day Camp. Even three days of torrential rain and asbestos removal couldn’t dampen the GLI spirit. Then as Julia Loonin flew west to run our after-school program in California, Simone Marean flew east to run our …
