Girls’ Leadership
Girls Inc. of New York City delivers life-transforming programs that inspire girl-identifying youth to be strong, smart, and bold.
Girl Scouts of Greater New York’s mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Latinas On the Verge of Excellence (“L.O.V.E.”) empowers young women to identify their innate strength to fulfill their personal and professional goals through mentorship and health education targeted at mental, reproductive and physical health, as well as college and career readiness.
The Lower Eastside Girls Club connects young women and gender-expansive youth of color throughout New York City to healthy and successful futures through free, innovative year-round programming and mentoring.
The mission of the Sadie Nash Leadership Project is to strengthen, empower, and equip young women and youth of color as agents for change in their lives and in the world. They use popular education to build community, critical consciousness, and college and career readiness among participants. The Sadie Nash Leadership Project offers an array of inter-related programs that serve different needs, and reach young people in various circumstances and stages of their development.
Seeds of Fortune is the largest, non-profit EdTech platform dedicated to matching young women of color to education, finance and career opportunities to support them on their first steps toward economic security. Their three impact areas of focus are access to an affordable college education and economic information, scalable and accessible career opportunities, as well as access to social capital that leads to closing the gender and racial wealth and education gap.
South Asian Youth Action works toward educational equity by providing opportunities and resources to underserved New York City youth, ensuring they are empowered academically, emotionally, and socially to become engaged community members. The Young Women’s Leadership Program, is a gender-based, youth leadership program designed to provide a culturally-affirming third space for female-identifying and gender expansive youth from underserved communities in Queens.
The Student Leadership Network was founded in 1996 when The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem opened. At the time, it was the first public all-girls school to open in the United States in 30 years. Since their establishment, the Young Women's Leadership Schools (TYWLS) have stood at the forefront of advancing girls' education in New York City. The success of the New York City TYWLS have since inspired dozens of single-gender Young Women’s Leadership Network schools to open nationwide.
YWCA Brooklyn is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all. YWCA Brooklyn focuses its work primarily on the economic empowerment of women and girls of color whose opportunities for prosperity have been limited by systemic racism and gender bias.