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| Get With Generation Know* Girls For A Change (GFC) is proud to enter our fourth year partnering with U by Kotex® to empower girls to advance their vaginal wellness education and create social change in their communities through a program called Generation Know*. Generation Know* will be the first generation of girls with a real understanding of vaginal wellness, the first generation comfortable asking questions and gaining and spreading knowledge – and we need your help to get this movement going! Read more about our partnership by clicking here and visit the U by Kotex® website for ways you and the girls in your life can get involved. |
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| Micro-Documentary Watch out bullies! Middle school aged girls learn to mobilize into action teams to take on tough issues. Girls for a Change focuses on helping young women find their voice and courage to make positive changes in their communities. |
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| Star Volunteer - 1000 hearts for 1000 minds Fariha Naveed is a Girls For a Change superstar! She has been volunteering with Girls for a Change for 2 semester-long sessions now and has been one of the program’s biggest advocates. Fariha volunteers at Fisher Middle School in San Jose, where she dedicates an hour and a half once a week for 14 weeks to help empower girls’ voices and show that they can change things in their community. Her students absolutely adore her and her warm personality provides a trusting space for them to share what they want to change about their community.Girls for a Change has been absolutely blessed by having Fariha as a volunteer. She not only does the weekly girl meetings but she has also been a major advocate for the program and 1000 Hearts for 1000 Minds at her employer, Brocade, bringing in several others to volunteer with Girls for a Change. On top of all of that, Fariha is helping Girls for a Change with its new program in Afghanistan. Girls for a Change is so lucky to have her!  |
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| #NotBuyingIt Over the past year Girls for A Change has partnered with Jennifer Siebel Newsom in creating and leading the social action component of her award winning documentary Miss Representation. As part of the Social Action Rep. program, we created a campaign called "Not Buying It," which encourages people to use the Twitter hashtag #NotBuyingIt to call out sexist and degrading representations of women in the media, especially in commercials and print advertisements. Respected independent news organization Mother Jones has picked up the story and reports on the popularity of #NotBuyingIt during this year's Super Bowl. Click here to read the story.  |
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 GFC Partners with SurveyMonkey Contribute! Girls For A Change is excited to announce our partnership with SurveyMonkey Contribute! Sign up to be a panel member on Contribute, and you will receive surveys from SurveyMonkey customers who need your opinion. For every survey you take, SurveyMonkey will donate $0.50 to Girls For A Change, and you’ll get a chance to win $100 in an instant win game. Here is the link to sign up. |
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GFC Launches GFC Let's Go to Help You Bring GFC to Your Town! Thanks to funding from the Kwan-Eustace Family Foundation, GFC has launched new products to help anyone bring positive change to their community! Click here to learn more! |
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Coaches Still Needed for Spring 2012 – Can You Make Time for Change? We're serving more girls than ever and we need YOU to help us reach them. Training for new coaches is January 14-15 in Silicon Valley and early February for Richmond, VA. We welcome women ages 20 plus to come and apply to be a coach today! Click on this link for more info. |
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Shop for Good this Holiday Season! Make change for a girl in your world! This year, shop and support Girls For A Change – we have some wonderful retail partners who are sharing their profits with our programs: kay-dee-h Handbags 2% of all sales go to GFC! MeSheeky Nico Skirt Purchase the Nico Skirt and 10% goes to GFC! |
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MISS REPRESENTATION: Become a Social Action Rep Powered by GIRLS FOR A CHANGE On October 20th, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) premiered Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s film Miss Representation. Girls for A Change has been a dedicated partner with Jennifer in promoting the film’s strong message about the misrepresentation of women in the media, which in turn leads to the under representation of women in positions of power and influence. Click here to find a local screening near you or even set one up yourself! |
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 Welcome To Our New Website! Please look around and email us if you see stuff that doesn't look right or doesn't work. We would love your help! |
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 GFC Alumnae, Please fill out our survey! Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to hearing from you! Click Here to take the GFC Alumna Survey! |
Girls For A Change is excited to be partnering with GroundSpark on a new, cutting edge film and educational campaign about teens, gender and sexuality: Straightlaced–How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up. From girls confronting media messages about culture and body image to boys who are sexually active just to prove they aren’t gay, Straightlaced shares young people’s brave and intimate stories about the toll that deeply held stereotypes and rigid gender policing have on all our lives.
