Girl's Leadership

APPLY TO BE A 2017-2018 SPARKS GIRL LEADER TODAY!

Click HERE to apply! Applications are due September 21, 2018 at 10pm

This year, SPARKS will bring together various girls from all across Boston, who will work together on leadership and community service projects.

The program will meet one Saturday a month, and participants can expect to acquire leadership skills, build compassion, meet new people, and make a positive impact on her community, her peers, and the world around her. Awesome, right!?

And if it doesn’t get better than that, upon being selected and completing the program,  Girl Leaders will receive a $500 scholarship and have the chance to enter the 2018 IGNITE Change Contest!

The application is brief and the spots are limited.

Boston GLOW Girl Leaders are aged 14-18 and live in Boston, Cambridge, or Somerville. We use an inclusive definition of "women" and welcome trans women, genderqueer women, and people who identify as non-binary

Each year, we award educational scholarships prizes to ten finalists from our IGNITE Change Leadership Contest, and we go on to create a mentoring relationship between these girls and a member of our Organized Women network throughout the year.  Check out some pictures from past outings!

For anyone interested in working with our Girl Leaders, we recommend all volunteers attend some events with our Organized Women community first; our mentors are internally matched from our growing pool of Organized Women.

GAPP - Girls About Political Participatio

GAPP empowered high school aged girls to explore civic engagement and leadership through providing opportunities to meet, interview, and job shadow female elected officials from Boston, Massachusetts and across the globe.

25 GAPP Girl Leaders have had the opportunity to tour the State House, interview local women elected officials, and speak on panels of global women leaders from Ethiopia, South Korea, Ireland, Thailand, South Africa, China and more!

Applications to be a 2018 GAPP Girl Leader will be available in January!!

For more information, email leah@bostonglow.org

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On September 18th, 2014, eleven girls and twelve female politicians gathered in Nurses Hall in the historic Massachusetts State House for a day of personal interviews, the first Girls About Political Participation (GAPP) Interview Day.  It was an incredible event--right on time, the legislators came down the stairs from their seats to find the girl they were matched with, and they spent more than an hour sharing experiences, discussing how they overcame their doubts and obstacles, and explaining how and why they got into politics.  The girls took furious notes, asking more questions, bonding with their legislator as they sat in Nurses Hall, the very first place in the State House where the contributions of women were honored.

After the interviews, Representative Ruth Balser led the girls on a tour of the State House, and it was then, as they walked through the hallowed halls and envisioned the possibility of their futures there, that one of the girls pointed to a chair at the front of the House of Representatives and said,

"That's my seat."