Alliance for Girls

🎉 We are excited to share Alliance for Girls’ new strategic plan! It charts the course 🧭 of our collective future to facilitate generative change with and for girls and gender-expansive youth of color and the organizations that serve them. ✨ By implementing this strategic plan, AFG aims to create an imagined community where girls and gender-expansive youth, especially those of color, are valued, respected, and safe, through youth-led research, storytelling, and collective advocacy. In the coming years, we’ll focus on 4️⃣ core strategies: 🔎 YOUTH RESEARCH HUB: Expanding and strengthening AFG's research capacity is at the heart of AFG’s next chapter. With youth as the expert researchers, we’ll continue to reimagine research to facilitate, validate, and elevate girls' and gender-expansive youth of color’s experiences and stories as truth. 🫱🏽🫲🏿 COMMUNITY BUILDING: We’ll center relationship-building, connection, and care throughout AFG practices, engaging our members through our network, ongoing learning opportunities, speaking engagements, events, as well as in our research and power-building work. ✊🏽 DATA-DRIVEN SYSTEMS CHANGE: We build power with communities to catalyze data-driven systems change advocacy by centering the lived experiences and policy recommendations made by girls and gender-expansive youth of color and the organizations that serve them. 🫶🏽 WALKING THE TALK: We are investing in and supporting AFG‘s internal culture through improved processes, structures, and development that align with our values and organizational integrity. We are also thrilled to welcome Evaluation Studio’s all-women-of-color research team, which is now integrated and part of AFG, to lead our fee-based consulting and technical assistance for participatory research and transformational evaluation. Huge thank you to the AFG staff, board members, organizational members, youth, and champions, who generously contributed their time and knowledge to our truly collaborative strategic planning process. Join us in creating a world where every girl or gender-expansive youth of color is valued, honored, safe, and cared for. 🔗 View our strategic plan, meet our new team, and learn more about work: https://lnkd.in/enCmNxpd

🎉 We are excited to share Alliance for Girls’ new strategic plan! It charts the course 🧭 of our collective future to facilitate generative change with and for girls and gender-expansive youth of color and the organizations that serve them. ✨ By implementing this strategic plan, AFG aims to create an imagined community where girls and gender-expansive youth, especially those of color, are valued, respected, and safe, through youth-led research, storytelling, and collective advocacy. In the coming years, we’ll focus on 4️⃣ core strategies: 🔎 YOUTH RESEARCH HUB: Expanding and strengthening AFG's research capacity is at the heart of AFG’s next chapter. With youth as the expert researchers, we’ll continue to reimagine research to facilitate, validate, and elevate girls' and gender-expansive youth of color’s experiences and stories as truth. 🫱🏽🫲🏿 COMMUNITY BUILDING: We’ll center relationship-building, connection, and care throughout AFG practices, engaging our members through our network, ongoing learning opportunities, speaking engagements, events, as well as in our research and power-building work. ✊🏽 DATA-DRIVEN SYSTEMS CHANGE: We build power with communities to catalyze data-driven systems change advocacy by centering the lived experiences and policy recommendations made by girls and gender-expansive youth of color and the organizations that serve them. 🫶🏽 WALKING THE TALK: We are investing in and supporting AFG‘s internal culture through improved processes, structures, and development that align with our values and organizational integrity. We are also thrilled to welcome Evaluation Studio’s all-women-of-color research team, which is now integrated and part of AFG, to lead our fee-based consulting and technical assistance for participatory research and transformational evaluation. Huge thank you to the AFG staff, board members, organizational members, youth, and champions, who generously contributed their time and knowledge to our truly collaborative strategic planning process. Join us in creating a world where every girl or gender-expansive youth of color is valued, honored, safe, and cared for. 🔗 View our strategic plan and learn more about work: https://lnkd.in/enCmNxpd

Over the last three months, AFG and BART hosted intergenerational and interactive Community Learning Exchanges. These workshops convened girls and gender-expansive youth, leaders from girl-serving organizations, and community members who ride BART to reimagine how BART evaluates issues of safety, specifically when it comes to sexual harassment and gender-based violence. To further expand our learning, AFG and BART invite leaders and youth to a community meeting. Reimagining Safety on BART: Building a Youth-Informed Evaluation Tuesday, April 23, 2024 5:00pm to 7:30pm Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline St, Berkeley We’ll share what we learned in the community learning exchanges, particularly from and with girls and gender-expansive youth of color, and discuss as a broader community how safety should be assessed and upheld across BART’s system. Together we will dream, reimagine and learn from one another, and develop a vision for the safety and accountability of girls and gender-expansive youth on BART. We welcome all transit advocates and community leaders, particularly from organizations and groups that serve girls and gender-expansive youth across the Bay Area, organizations that serve them. But most importantly, we want you to encourage your youth to attend. Dinner and childcare provided! Limited spots available. 📍 Register: https://lnkd.in/evtbFxMk - #endgenderbasedviolence #notonemoregirl #sfbart

📢 ICYMI! A big thank you to Mineta Transportation Institute for inviting AFG's Co-Executive Director, Chantal Hildebrand, to discuss rider harassment on public transit. 🚍 🚊 Together with our members and BART we turned our research into action – and created Phase 1 the Not One More Girl (NOMG) initiative. This first-of-its-kind campaign is a community-driven initiative centering girls and gender-expansive youth to reimagine safety for riders on BART. It reflects the voices and needs of the community, especially the voices of girls and gender-expansive youth of color.  Our groundbreaking work is not done. AFG has begun work on the first youth-informed evaluation framework. It will support BART in assessing the prevalence and impact of sexual harassment and assault on its trains and platforms and the impact of BART’s current interventions. 📌 Here’s a list of additional resources from the “Putting the Brakes on Rider Harassment: Research Tools, Community Partnerships, and Data-Driven Solutions” conversation: https://bit.ly/3HNTBU3.

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🕯️As we look to light the path for gender-equity in the next decade, we remain committed to our belief that diverse leadership is the key to effective leadership. Through our adoption of a new co-Executive Director model under the guidance of Chantal Hildebrand and Linda Lu, we have brought together the AFG and Evaluation Studio teams to work towards a shared vision. Building upon the strong foundation laid by our former Executive Director, Emma, and the AFG team, we are charting a new course for our future. Stay tuned for the exciting results from our strategic planning process in early 2024! If you’re looking for a way to make a difference, consider supporting our work with an end-of-the-year donation. 🫶🏽 🫱🏿🫲🏾 Meet Chantal + Linda: https://bit.ly/3vfi7tX 🔦 Read our Lighting the Path for Gender Equity message: https://bit.ly/3vfi7tX 🫶🏽 Donate at https://lnkd.in/gtaDQu6y

The work of AFG and our members in Los Angeles County is truly inspiring. Together, we shed light on the challenges and opportunities that girls and gender-expansive youth face in their communities. We look forward to continuing our collaborative efforts next year to develop data-driven policy recommendations that focus on addressing these challenges and creating a brighter future for girls and gender-expansive youth in South & Southeast LA. If you're looking for a way to make a difference, consider supporting our work with an end-of-the-year donation. 🔦 Read our Lighting the Path for Gender Equity message: https://bit.ly/3vfi7tX 🫶🏽 Donate at https://lnkd.in/eSPy-5g9

AFG and our members’ work in 2023 serve as beautiful reminders of hope for the future, like the stars 🌟that peek through dark clouds in the night sky. 🌕 This year, AFG, our member organizations, and collaborating partners celebrated some exciting legislative wins in 2023. In each piece of legislation we supported, our girl-centered research was uplifted to highlight the need for policy change, and our local advocacy inspired state policy on public safety. Join us in bringing as much light into the world as we can in 2024 and beyond by donating today. 🔦 Read our Lighting the Path for Gender Equity message: https://bit.ly/3vfi7tX 🫶🏽 Donate at https://lnkd.in/gtaDQu6y

Wishing a joyous Kwanzaa to all who celebrate. 🕯️❤️🖤💚 Although the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C. has celebrated Kwanzaa before, this is the first year that it’s having an actual display. The display will be in Heritage Hall and include a kinara candle holder, a mkeka mat and a Kwanzaa playlist. 🙌🏾 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eMxZJPka One of the great things about Kwanzaa is the chance to be expressive and creative. Find Adinkra symbols coloring pages, a reading list about African-American history, a family activity that relates to each day's principle, and children's Kwanzaa videos: https://lnkd.in/g28Shwbt