CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Girls Inc. of New York City delivers life-transforming programs that inspire girl-identifying youth to be strong, smart, and bold. Through leadership development, mentoring, education, and advocacy, they prepare girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers to advance to a more equitable world.
IGNITE is a national non-partisan movement of young women, ready and eager to become the next generation of civic, political, and community leaders. They are the largest, most diverse civic/political leadership organization in the nation mobilizing young women via sustained community-based education, training, and support, to prepare them to step into leadership roles.
PowHer New York is an inclusive statewide network of 100+ gender and racial justice organizations committed to securing economic equality for all New York women. Their mission is to achieve women’s economic equity and well-being.
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.
Women Creating Change is an inclusive community that partners with underserved women to develop and strengthen the skills and resources needed to effectively advocate for New York’s diverse communities.