Girls Inc. Partners

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Each year since 2000, Girls Inc. partners with the Annie E. Casey Foundation to offer the Family Strengthening Awards. Girls Inc. recognizes and shares outstanding programs and strategies delivered by our affiliate organizations that strengthen girls’ families. Girls Inc. believes that when we supply families of girls with such assistance, we help build supportive home environments for girls. Strong and encouraging home environments are one of the many factors that can help to inspire girls to be strong, smart, and bold.

Through the Family Strengthening Awards program, Girls Inc. honors selected Girls Inc. organizations by announcing their work at special events, conferences, and through webinars. Winners currently receive a $10,000 award in recognition of their important family strengthening work, as well as materials to help them publicize their award-winning work locally. The awards program spreads best practices in family strengthening throughout the entire Girls Inc. network by enabling other Girls Inc. organizations to learn from the award recipients.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is committed to helping children and families living in challenging communities do better. The Foundation believes that children do well when families do well, and that families do better when they live in supportive communities. Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.

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Cheryl B. Engelhardt

Cheryl B. Engelhardt is a New York-based award winning songwriter and recording artist. A lifelong pianist, she left her first career in marine biology to create music. Cheryl is donating a portion of proceeds from her new power-pop single, “Nothing To Change," to Girls Inc. The song is available for download at digital stores including iTunes and Amazon.com.

To learn more about Cheryl and “Nothing To Change,” please visit: www.cbemusic.com.

EILEEN FISHER

Girls Inc. is honored to partner with EILEEN FISHER in an inaugural partnership to launch the Girls Inc. Outlet Store on eBay.

Eileen Fisher is a true exemplar of the Girls Inc. mission. Throughout her career she has distinguished herself as one of the top women in her field—a leader whose achievements have been the result of innovation, high standards, and a passionate commitment to developing great clothing and great people. Eileen and her company have set a new standard for socially conscious entrepreneurship through a deep respect for the individual, a belief in the power of collaboration and teamwork, and a commitment to the greater good.

“The voices of women are critical in making the world a better place. Girls Inc. teaches girls how to find their voices, and more importantly, develop the confidence to speak up. I am proud to support this wonderful organization and its vital mission,” says Eileen.

Girls Inc. has benefited from personal contributions from Eileen as well as support from the EILEEN FISHER company and foundation. Eileen was initially drawn to the Girls Inc. mission when she contributed a letter to What I Know Now: Letters to My Younger Self, an anthology edited by Ellyn Spragins that also featured a letter from Girls Inc. president and CEO Joyce Roché. Eileen then participated as a speaker at a Girls Inc. panel discussion event celebrating the book’s release in 2006. Recently, EILEEN FISHER boutiques in Bloomingdale’s nationwide donated 10 percent of one day’s gross sales to Girls Inc.

Visit the Girls Inc. Outlet Store on eBay, featuring EILEEN FISHER merchandise at a significant discount.

Business Wire

An in-kind donation from Business Wire, the global market leader in commercial news distribution, is helping to celebrate girls’ voices by assisting with the promotion of the Girls Inc. Dear World public education campaign. By offering complimentary distribution of the campaign announcement and video across its network, Business Wire has introduced a worldwide audience to Girls Inc. and the messages girls have about growing up in today’s world.

Business Wire is the leading source for press releases, photos, multimedia, and regulatory filings from companies and groups throughout the world.

View the news release and multimedia gallery.

Experience Girls Inc. Dear World.

The Motorola Foundation

Funding from the Motorola Foundation will support several all-girl FIRST Lego League teams from Girls Inc. organizations for the third consecutive year. Girls ages 9-14 will form teams to learn engineering concepts, research and solve real-world problems, and design and build autonomous robots. Motorola’s support will allow participating teams to purchase hardware, software, team uniforms, and the required robotics kits, and to attend FIRST events.

The Motorola Foundation is the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola. Through strategic grants, forging strong community partnerships, fostering innovation, and engaging stakeholders, the Motorola Foundation focuses its funding on education, especially innovation, science, technology, engineering, and math programming.

High IntenCity

High IntenCity Corp., a leading accessories manufacturer, has introduced i CARE, a specialty jewelry line for tweens and teens to raise proceeds and awareness for Girls Inc. High IntenCity will donate 10 percent of the proceeds received from the line to the organization. The collection is available nationwide in more than 100 specialty stores nationwide, plus select Nordstrom locations.

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