JoinUs! Sexual Health Education and Sport for Development This webinar will bring activists, nonprofits, policymakers, and researchers from around the world together to discuss how they use sports for development to increase reproductive justice. We will hold space for a discussion of best practices and brainstorming of next steps around program...
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Sports tackling gender-based violence
Sports tackling gender-based violence Eeva Mäkinen, Communications Manager, November 2020 Girls in the communities in which we work are faced not only with serious everyday poverty and restricted access to education, but forced to deal with gender-based violence on a daily basis. The denial of access to the personal, social and...
Upcoming Events: Gender and Sexual Diversity in Sports
Roundtable: Structures for Queer-Trans in Sports When: Thursday, 12 November, 2020, 7 p.m (CET) Language: German Organizer: Seitenwechsel Trans Inter Anti-Discrimination Working Group (TrIAD) What: Structures for Queer-Trans in Sports addresses gender and sexual discrimination in sports. Through sharing experiences and research about transgender and intersexuality in sports, it calls for structural changes to bring...
How To Measure and Assess Your Organization’s Impact?
Assessing your organizations? program impact is necessary to ensure feedback is used and the organization changes with the community. Making sure your program is going to plan, tracking the outcomes of your program, and taking the results into further action to improve your program are the necessary steps to take...
Arsema’s Tips: Maintaining Your Health While Social Distancing and Quarantining
Girls in the Lead loves to encourage girls to participate in sports to build leadership, community, and confidence- but what about maintaining exercise without mentors to help guide you? As someone who did not regularly workout before an international pandemic confined us to our homes, the concept of remaining active...
A How to Guide: Program Planning for Nonprofits
Designing a program can be fun, but also can be a daunting task. Having clear steps and objectives helps create a program that is impactful and beneficial to the community. This blog post is next in our series of breaking down some of the language utilized in our Modules so...
NGO Governance: The Need for Board of Directors/Trustees
Establishing and managing a successful organization, nonprofit or social enterprise requires a good foundational board structure with clear responsibilities. This blog post is next in our series of breaking down some of the language utilized in our Modules so you can have a clear understanding of the importance of board...
Let’s Talk About Gender
Becoming mainstream and incorporating gender focused language and programs into your communities can be difficult if your organization doesn't understand some of the key parts that go into planning. This post and others in its series are dedicated to breakdown some of the terms Girls in the Lead Modules use,...
Dismantling Systemic Racism and Prejudice – Say Their Names!
The Girls in the Lead team are saddened by the killing of black men and women, this time by the Minneapolis Police Department in the murder of George Floyd. We stand with the victims of racism, police brutality, and an unjust system, and stand against blatant and systemic racism. We...
On Female Athleticism with Arsema
My name is Arsema and I am excited to be joining Girls In The Lead?s team. A little background about myself; I was born and raised in Minnesota but am currently attending school in St. Louis. Growing up, I absolutely loved playing sports with my siblings and looked at it...