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GFC National Tour - Thousands of Girls Trained as Change Agents!
In September and October 2008, GFC embarked on its first ever National Tour, presented by The Sephora Project. The National Tour was the catalyst for our nationwide expansion and the start of 100 Girl Action Teams throughout the United States!
The National Tour included Change Your World Trainings and Girl Action Zones at Sephora Stores nationwide. Check out some results below!
Change Your World Trainings - 2-hour trainings for girls in middle school or high school that teach what social change is and how to take action in your community!
- More than 2,300 girls were trained at 25 schools! Each girl received a Girl Action Kit detailing how she can create change in her neighborhood, city or school. Check out the social change webs girls created about the community issues they want to change
- We traveled more than 6,500 miles reaching girls in 11 cities
- Following the trainings, hundreds of girls have joined our Girl Action Network
- GFC Girl Action Teams will start at more than 70% of the schools where we offered Change Your World Trainings. This number is still growing!
- GFC will expand to Richmond, VA where 8-10 new Girl Action Teams will start in January 2009
Girl Action Zones - held at Sephora Stores throughout the country, these information sessions introduced girls to GFC and invited them to identify their passions and join our Girl Action Network
- Community members told us what they want to change and what they are passionate about. Check out the videos here!
- Hundreds of community members were invited to join the GFC Girl Action Network and encouraged to take a stand for change in their community
- GFC Staff brought Girl Action Zones to 10 Sephora stores in 10 cities throughout the U.S.
Interested in learning more? Contact carrie@girlsforachange.org
Want to start a GFC Girl Action Team where you live? Check out our website here
A big thank you to The Sephora Project and our National Tour Partners for their support! Check them out here.
The GFC National Tour
We kicked off our nationwide expansion in fall 2008 with the GFC National Tour presented by The Sephora Project.
The tour empowered thousands of girls across the country and launch a new Girls For A Change site in Richmond, VA. This year we will both double the number of GFC community sites and the number of girls we reach.
Our four-week tour started in the San Francisco Bay Area and ended in New York City—stopping at more than 25 schools and organizations along the way! The tour is the catalyst to launch 100 new Girl Action Teams nationwide. Click here to learn more about the tour, which includes Change Your World Trainings in five cities, Girl Action Zones in 10 cities along the way, and our powerful new Change Your World Action Kit and Training that will be free to girls nationwide.
GFC Action Network
Also launching this fall is the new GFC Action Network. Thousands of girls and women who participate in the National Tour will stay connected—and thousands will more will join them online—to create and share their GFC social change projects and resources. On the GFC Action Network, existing and new Girl Action Teams can work together to complete their projects and 1,000s more can download the Change Your World Action Kit to create change in their own way and join this revolutionary movement. CHECK IT OUT!
Sephora Partnership
Though GFC's national partnership with The Sephora Project, GFC will reach 1 million girls through in-store events, online Change Your World Action Kits and our 7 Ways to Change Your World pamphlet in every Sephora store. See the latest information about The Sephora Project launch events here.
National Partners
We couldn't empower girls and women without the support of our national partners. Learn more about them here.
Nationwide Girl Action Teams
GFC will launch 100 high-impact Girl Action Teams across the country engaging 1,000 girls and 200 women coaches in identifying, designing and implementing girl-led solutions to pressing issues they face in their communities.
Tour Blog!
Get the latest updates on the tour here!
By Whitney Smith, GFC CEO
The Girl Action Zones on the National Tour are proving to be a huge
sucess. Girl Action Zones are interactive gatherings where girls and
women learn about social change and the power they have to create it.
Girls and women will discover their inner social change agent and their
inner beauty at participating SEPHORA stores throughout the country.
These 3 hour events inside the Sephora stores will include
opportunities to discover what social change means, brainstorm what
issues are important to women and girls and learn about ways GFC can
support girls and women in creating change. GFC representatives will be
on hand to guide girls and women through this process. There will also
be an opportunity to sign up for GFC’s Action Network and be part of a
network of women and girls throughout the world who are working on
change projects. In addition, girls and women will have the chance to
share what they are passionate about and how they want to address the
issue they want to change by creating photo and video diaries that will
be posted online on GFC’s Action Network.
The first GAZ was held at the Sephora store on Powell Street in San Francisco. Tonight and tomorrow there will be a GAZ at the Sephora store in the Beverly Center in Los Angeles.
Completion Ceremonies 2009!
Each year, we celebrate the girls, women and community supporters that make GFC possible. Our annual Completion Ceremonies feature keynote speakers, "IT Girl" Awards, and video presentations of Girl Action Team projects as well as testimonials from Coaches about their GFC experiences.
Completion Ceremonies for the 2008-09 program year are being held in April and May. Check out the links below to learn more about the ceremonies:
Empower Hours!
Join us for an intimate gathering to learn about Girls For A Change. Hear from powerful young women about how GFC impacted their lives and how they are transforming your world. Meet and mingle with other passionate professionals and GFC alumni and coaches. Invite a friend, share your ideas for empowering this next generation of leaders and find out how to become a part of our mission.
Check out our upcoming Empower Hours in:
Phoenix
Spring Into Action
This dynamic and energizing day for Girl Action Teams includes guest speakers, performers and workshops for girls and GFC Coaches. Girls will take workshops on skills they need for creating social change including networking, budgeting, organizing and working with elected officials. Teams also have time to work on their project plan as they are preparing to implement a social change project in their community.
Check out information about the 2007-08 events from February 2008:
Phoenix
5th Annual Girl Summit
More than 1,400 and 350 women attended the 5th Annual Girl Summit hosted by GFC at the San Jose Convention Center on October 30, 2007! Throughout the day, they were inspired by speakers and performers, social change workshops, and (most importantly) each other. Check out the media coverage by CBS, The San Jose Mercury News and others.
The Summit was supported by many generous sponsors and presented by
We can't wait to see you all next year! Check out our photo album here:
Change The World Breakfast
1,000s of teen girls are changing our world and you can join them through Girls For A Change! This fall, you're invited to gather with more than 400 Bay Area professionals for an inspiring breakfast program where you can meet some of the amazing local teen girls who are transforming their communities--and your world--each year through GFC.
THIS EVENT OCCURED IN 2007
Please join GFC at our:
CHANGE THE WORLD Breakfast
Tuesday, October 30
7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m.
San Jose Convention Center (map)
Get involved today: Help spread the word: We are looking for table hosts to help us fill the room for this special event. As a table host, you'll invite 10 of your friends, family members or colleagues to join you for the breakfast. (There are no tickets or cost associated with attending this event or sponsorship requirements associated with being a table host.).
You're invited to the Girl Summit: Directly following our Change The World Breakfast is GFC's annual Girl Summit attended by more than 1,000 teen girls and 500 adults. All breakfast guests are invited to attend Opening Ceremonies and to be part of this inspiring and empowering day for girls and women!
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