Girls get it done.

The following is a post sponsored by Yahoo! Every time someone clicks here to make Yahoo! their homepage, they’re showing their support for Girls For A Change.

I was selected for this opportunity by Clever Girls Collective, which endorses Blog With Integrity, as I do.
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Back in my acting days, I worked with a Chicago company that brought Shakespeare workshops into middle and high schools. I played Juliet for almost seven years- whoa.

We brought these workshops to private schools, public schools, and used grants to bring it to inner city schools. During my years with this company, I was constantly struck by the times we went into all girls schools. These girls were amazing. They were attentive, focused, worked well in teams, problem solved together, and it was truly wonderful to see. Basically, these girls just buckled down and got it done. Perhaps without the distraction of boys, these girls were really able to find their own voices and hear the voices of the other girls around them?

I don’t know.

But I do believe there is a sense of community that girls and women naturally long for, gravitate toward, and thrive in. I also believe that it is through these “communities” that great change can happen. There is a sense of empowerment that can come from working with, learning from, and lifting up other females. And the girls that learn this at an early age, are likely to become the women that are change agents in the world.

I love to see girls GET IT DONE.

I’d like to introduce you to an organization called Girls For A Change.

“Girls For A Change (GFC) is a national organization that empowers girls to create social change. We invite young women to design, lead, fund and implement social change projects that tackle issues girls face in their own neighborhoods. GFC empowers girls for personal and social transformation. The program inspires girls to have the voice, ability and problem solving capacity to speak up, be decision makers, create visionary change and realize their full potential.”

I encourage you to check out their website, and I also encourage you to help.

Lucky you, you can help without digging into your own pocket.

“How?”, you are so loudly asking me.

Simple- Yahoo! wants to help you help them. All you have to do is click here and make Yahoo! your homepage.

Yahoo! will donate $10 to Girls For A Change (GFC) for each person who clicks here to make Yahoo! their homepage by July 1…up to an amazing $10,000!

$10,000 people!

Do it.

Besides getting highly personalized content on your Yahoo! homepage, you will be helping a fantastic organization.

You must click this link for it to be tracked and the $10 donated. And it must be done by July 1st!

Go…

I’ll wait.

Come back and tell me when your done.