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To ensure that the Girl Scout Leadership Experience is truly for every girl, we’re providing FREE programming to girls in underserved communities.
The Girl Scout Leadership Experience—rooted in STEM, the outdoors, entrepreneurship, and life skills—allows girls to seek out challenges, break down barriers, and become the next generation of strong female leaders poised with confidence.
We need your support to build a strong and inclusive female leadership pipeline, so all girls can make their own choices, take healthy risks, explore their curiosities, and become resilient leaders.
gsema.org/foreverygirl
gsema.org | 844-306-GSEM (4736) | @GirlScoutsEMass
Time-tested, research-backed leadership development
for EVERY
© MELISSA OSTROW - MELOPHOTO.NET
To ensure that the Girl Scout Leadership Experience is truly for every girl, we’re providing FREE programming to girls in underserved communities.
The Girl Scout Leadership Experience—rooted in STEM, the outdoors, entrepreneurship, and life skills—allows girls to seek out challenges, break down barriers, and become the next generation of strong female leaders poised with confidence.
We need your support to build a strong and inclusive female leadership pipeline, so all girls can make their own choices, take healthy risks, explore their curiosities, and become resilient leaders.
gsema.org/foreverygirl
gsema.org | 844-306-GSEM (4736) | @GirlScoutsEMass
Time-tested, research-backed leadership development
for EVERY
“This is my other safe place to be”
THE NEED We have identified 16 communities within eastern Massachusetts that demonstrate the most need, and partner with institutional sites such as community centers, schools, and low-income housing complexes to reach girls at risk in these areas. Trained, background-screened staff and volunteers facilitate the programs—and true to our beliefs, the girls lead the way.
Haverhill Lawrence
Framingham
Lynn
“My favorite thing about Girl Scouts is that I can learn something new every day,” says Ivy, a seventh grade girl from Lawrence who has been participating in Girl Scouts for four years.
In order to continue serving these girls, and to bring the positive impact of Girl Scouting to even more,
GSEMA must bridge the divide between funding and opportunity.
“We were engineers, and we also created our own business,” she adds, speaking of just the past few months. Whether learning about energy while constructing solar ovens, selling Girl Scout Cookies to fund adventures of their choice, or applying principles of aerodynamics as creators of their own roller coasters, Ivy loves building her skills with her Girl Scout friends.
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TODAY.
Lowell Malden Everett
girls currently receiving free Girl Scout programming
Salem Revere Chelsea Boston
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Methuen
$400 X 1,400
cost per year per girl for GSEMA
Quincy Brockton
Taunton
In Massachusetts, 16% of girls live in poverty. Girls of low socioeconomic-status face considerable challenges that affect their health, happiness, and achievement.
The opportunities for growth are abundant for these girls. Ivy recently made the high honor roll at school, and attributes this success to the goal-setting skills she developed in Girl Scouts.
“Girl Scouts will change your life so much,” she says. “It will give you self-confidence and motivation, inspiring you to be the best person you can be.”
New Bedford
In the United States, more girls are living in low-income households today than ten years ago.
“This is like my other home,” she says. “This is my other safe place to be, because first of all there are no boys, and second of all we don’t betray each other. We are sisters.”
They have less access to extracurricular activities that promote positive development, such as sports, volunteer, community, and leadership experiences, and have lower education outcomes over time.
These girls deserve to be Girl Scouts. Data provided by The State of Girls 2017, a report by Girl Scouts of the USA.
Girl Scouts works. 50% of female business leaders 73% of female U.S. Senators 80% of female tech leaders ... were Girl Scouts!
© MELISSA OSTROW - MELOPHOTO.NET
To ensure that the Girl Scout Leadership Experience is truly for every girl, we’re providing FREE programming to girls in underserved communities.
The Girl Scout Leadership Experience—rooted in STEM, the outdoors, entrepreneurship, and life skills—allows girls to seek out challenges, break down barriers, and become the next generation of strong female leaders poised with confidence.
We need your support to build a strong and inclusive female leadership pipeline, so all girls can make their own choices, take healthy risks, explore their curiosities, and become resilient leaders.
gsema.org/foreverygirl
gsema.org | 844-306-GSEM (4736) | @GirlScoutsEMass
Time-tested, research-backed leadership development
for EVERY