Girls Inc. Partners

Annie E. Casey Foundation

Each year since 2000, Girls Inc. partners with the Annie E. Casey Foundation to offer the Family Strengthening Awards. Girls Inc. recognizes and shares outstanding programs and strategies delivered by our affiliate organizations that strengthen girls’ families. Girls Inc. believes that when we supply families of girls with such assistance, we help build supportive home environments for girls. Strong and encouraging home environments are one of the many factors that can help to inspire girls to be strong, smart, and bold.

Through the Family Strengthening Awards program, Girls Inc. honors selected Girls Inc. organizations by announcing their work at special events, conferences, and through webinars. Winners currently receive a $10,000 award in recognition of their important family strengthening work, as well as materials to help them publicize their award-winning work locally. The awards program spreads best practices in family strengthening throughout the entire Girls Inc. network by enabling other Girls Inc. organizations to learn from the award recipients.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is committed to helping children and families living in challenging communities do better. The Foundation believes that children do well when families do well, and that families do better when they live in supportive communities. Since 1948, the Annie E. Casey Foundation has worked to build better futures for disadvantaged children and their families in the United States. The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today's vulnerable children and families.

Read about the 2008 recipients:

• Girls Inc. of Bowling Green, Kentucky

• Girls Inc. of Holyoke, Massachusetts

• Girls Inc. of Pinellas, Florida

Read about the 2007 recipients:

• Girls Inc. of the Island City, California

• Girls Inc. of Carpinteria, California

• Girls Inc. of Sarasota County, Florida

Business Wire

An in-kind donation from Business Wire, the global market leader in commercial news distribution, is helping to celebrate girls’ voices by assisting with the promotion of the Girls Inc. Dear World public education campaign.  By offering complimentary distribution of the campaign announcement and video across its network, Business Wire has introduced a worldwide audience to Girls Inc. and the messages girls have about growing up in today’s world.

Business Wire is the leading source for press releases, photos, multimedia, and regulatory filings from companies and groups throughout the world.

View the news release and multimedia gallery.

Experience Girls Inc. Dear World.

The Motorola Foundation

Funding from the Motorola Foundation will support several all-girl FIRST Lego League teams from Girls Inc. organizations for the third consecutive year. Girls ages 9-14 will form teams to learn engineering concepts, research and solve real-world problems, and design and build autonomous robots.  Motorola’s support will allow participating teams to purchase hardware, software, team uniforms, and the required robotics kits, and to attend FIRST events.

The Motorola Foundation is the independent charitable and philanthropic arm of Motorola. Through strategic grants, forging strong community partnerships, fostering innovation, and engaging stakeholders, the Motorola Foundation focuses its funding on education, especially innovation, science, technology, engineering, and math programming.

High IntenCity

High IntenCity Corp., a leading accessories manufacturer, has introduced i CARE, a specialty jewelry line for tweens and teens to raise proceeds and awareness for Girls Inc. High IntenCity will donate 10 percent of the proceeds received from the line to the organization. The collection is available nationwide in more than 100 specialty stores nationwide, plus select Nordstrom locations.

Shop online for i CARE.