Girls for Gender Equity is an award-winning non profit based in Brooklyn, New York founded by Joanne Smith after an 8 year old girl in her community was raped. For Smith, it became clear that the most vulnerable girls and women of color needed to be advocated for gender, race, class, and sexual oppression. GGE seeks to mobilize girls and women under the Title IX of the Education amendment (No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or active to receiving Federal financial assistance)(Title IX could be highlighted and definition could come up if clicked on for those who don’t know what it is) and is committed to systemic change in all of the support networks that shape the development and achievement of girls and women, namely physical, psychological, social, and economical development. GGE believes in the optimal development of girls, women; and ultimately the entire community. The three core programs follow: Youth Organizing that mobilizes youth and adults towards creating sustained change in their communities through educational campaigns, research and direct action.

A few of GGE’s Community Organizing

•  Sisters in Strength (SIS), (this could be clicked on and the definition could come

up) a 2-year organization program for 15 young women of color entering

sophomore or junior year of high school that organizes community outreach of  gender-based violence while confronting the layers of individual andinstitutional discrimination that threaten the safe of girls and women.

•  The Coalition for Gender Equity in Schools (CGES) collaborates with youth,

educators parents, activists, and policy makers to raise awareness about the

impact of sexual harassment in NYC schools and seeks change in gender equality

in the education for youth in NYC.

•  Participatory Action Research (PAR), education method that allows members

of a community to do research on problems that exist in their community. This

process seeks action and change.

http://www.ggenyc.org/2014/11/day-of- the-girl- nakisha-lewis- discuss-gender-equality-on- bric/

Mattie Love