Organization and Program: Asian Pacific American Women's Leadership Institute, Emerging Leaders Program
Type: ethnic-specific
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Address/Phone: Avon Foundation
Funding:
Provides skills and training to younger Asian American and Pacific Islander women to enhance their talents and skills personally and professionally.

Organization name: Cool Girls, Inc., Cool Biz
Type: 1-week program
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Address/Phone: 100 Edgewood Ave., Ste. 1000 Atlanta, GA 30303, 404.420.4364
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Designed to teach about business concepts and empower young girls to be entrepreneurs. Cool Biz provides the girls with hands-on experience utilizing the business skills learned during the program. The combination of academics and hands-on experience helps to cultivate the idea that girls and women can successfully own and operate a business.

Organization and Program: Chicago Women In Trades, Aspiring Tradeswomen
Type:
Ages: high school
Address/Phone: 1649 W. Adams, Ste 400, Chicago, IL 60612, 312-942-1444
Funding:
A program that develops leadership and advocacy skills and a peer support system for high school-aged young women enrolled in vocational classes, to promote their continued interest in and entry into high-wage nontraditional jobs.

Organization and Program: Girls at Work, Inc.
Type: Workshops
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Address/Phone:
Funding: Girls Inc of NH, Women’s Fund of NH, Providian Financial, Home Depot, Sidore Foundation
Offers workshops to teach women and girls woodworking skills

Organization and Program: Girls at Work (GAW)
Type: school partnership
Ages: 7th-8th, 9th
Address/Phone:
Funding: Chicago Women in Trades (CWIT)
CWIT partners with Chicago public schools at model for the state. The GAW increases girls’ awareness of high-wage, high-skill careers in construction, manufacturing, and transportation field through hands-on and career awareness activities. GAW also serves the school through staff development activities and distribution of their two educational projects: Tradeswomen of Tomorrow: an educators guide, and Resource Binder for Nontraditional Career Awareness for Girls.

Organization and Program: Girls Inc., Career and Life Planning program
Type:
Ages: 6-18
Address/Phone: Dallas, TX
Funding: Dallas Women’s Foundation
To support the, connecting girls to ideas, resources, and concrete plans for higher education and careers, including non-traditional careers for women. The program enables girls to become economically independent, self-reliant, and contributing members of their families and communities.

Organization and Program: Girls Inc.-New Hampshire, Material Girls
Type: 6-week summer program
Ages: 12-15
Address/Phone:
Funding:
Brings together a group of 12 girls each summer to design and construct a building project that is of value to their community. Designed to emphasize the importance of math and science, the linkage between success in school and success in a career, the sense of empowerment that comes through the acquisition of concrete skills, and building confidence through accomplishments.

Organization and Program: Girls Will Be Girls,
Type:
Ages: 6th grade
Address/Phone: Knoxville
Funding: Iowa Women’s Foundation
To help 6th grade girls develop decision–making and social skills in a positive and supportive climate. This program provides opportunities for girls to explore career options, connect with an adult outside of their own family, and build cohesiveness within the group. The girls meet weekly to listen to presentations and discuss various topics.

Organization name: North Miami Beach Senior High School, GEMS
Type: in-school, entrepreneurial
Ages: high school
Address/Phone:
Funding: Women’s Fund of Miami – Dade County
To expand this mentoring, enrichment and tutorial club for at-risk girls by integrating an entrepreneurship component. Girls will be taught business skills as they start horticultural and jewelry businesses that will also help to finance the rest of their club activities. Participation in all activities is contingent upon satisfactory academic performance.
Funding Partner: Deborah Hoffman

Organization and Program: Reach for Tomorrow
Type: mentoring
Ages: 6th grade
Address/Phone: Havre, Montana
Funding: Girls Can! and local foundations
Girls are connected to local career women specially trained to serve as mentors. Twice a month, during bike rides or over sandwiches, the girls talked with their mentors about life aspirations and worked to develop the skills and determination to achieve them. Students also attended monthly workshops and participated in Expanding Your Horizons, a career exploration conference. Girls also keep journals.

Organization and Program: Young Women Exploring Nontraditional Careers
Type: pre-apprenticeship
Ages: high school
Address/Phone: Los Angeles, California
Funding: Girls Can! grant
Collaboration between trades groups, such as Tradeswomen’s Task Force of the LA Unified School District’s Commission for Sex Equity, and school faculty, to create the YWENC. Involved girls in studying women’s labor history, working hands-on with tools, being mentored by successful tradeswomen, and engaging in apprenticeships with journey-level tradespeople. Also sought to improve girls’ math, science and engineering skills. Project teachers, counselors, and tradeswomen created curriculum materials on nontraditional careers for grades 1-12.