Girls Leadership Day is designed to offer high-school aged girls with much needed insight on education and career opportunities. This daylong event, through career roundtable discussions, a networking lunch and interest-based workshop, invites girls to think broadly about their future. The discussions and workshops are led by women volunteers, each of them, in telling stories of personal and professional successes and challenges, inspire girls to dream and offer helpful hints in how to negotiate those inevitable bumps in the road.
For the 2007 Girls Leadership Day on March 24th, nearly 70 girls from throughout the City and 14 professional women from wide range of fields, including government, media, medicine, nonprofit, science, law and business, came together to share ideas and learn from each other. The women mentored girls on how to define and achieve their personal and professional goals, and girls in turn energized the women with their spunk and ideas for the future.
Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project, a current NYWF® grantee partner, facilitated a financial literacy and justice workshop to help girls understand and prepare for financial security.
The New York Women’s Foundation® is committed to empowering young women to take charge of their own lives and is continuing to strategize on how to further engage young women in conversations about their future and their place in the community.
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