Boarding Schools for Girls

Conference Promotes Financial Awareness, Entrepreneurship Among Girls

About 100 teen girls from schools in and around New York City are learning about finance and entrepreneurship this week at a conference sponsored by Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. An Oct. 12 press release provided the following details about the "Girls Going Places Entrepreneurship Conference":

During the event, New York women business leaders will mentor girls ages 12 through 18 about entrepreneurship, using the conference as a platform for inspiring and encouraging teen girls to pursue their own entrepreneurial endeavors -- from starting non-profits or authoring books to launching new products or managing a business. ...

During the interactive conference, local business women will guide the girls through various activities such as "Hot Company," an entrepreneurial board game that introduces girls to the advantages and challenges of owning one's own business.

They will also team up for an exercise called "Product-in-a-Box," in which they will have the opportunity to design a product and present a marketing plan. The mentors will share their experiences as successful women in business.

Speakers scheduled to attend the conference include Michelle Paige Paterson (wife of NY Gov. David Paterson), Jennifer Raab (President of Hunter College of CUNY), and Howard Elias (Chairman & CEO of Wealth Advisory Group).

According to the Guardian Life website, within the next 12 months "Girls Going Places" conferences are scheduled for West Palm, Jacksonville, and Ft. Myers, Fla.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Minneapolis, Minn.; and Union NY.

Labels: finance, conference, business

Posted By: Aspen/CRC 0 Comments

In her Sept. 29 article on the website Tonic.com, Katherine Gustafson reported that attendees at the recently completed annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative had made a number of commitments that could significantly improve the lives of women and girls.

The following were three of the commitments that Gustafson cited:

• Pharmaceutical giants Merck and Qiagen have launched a new project to prevent cervical cancer by providing at least 1.5 million girls and 1.5 million women access to HPV vaccines and HPV DNA tests.
• Sustainable Health Enterprises will make sure one million girls and women in Africa get access to cheap, environmentally friendly sanitary pads and education on health and hygiene by 2012.
• Plan USA and partners are taking on a three-year project to train 140 adolescent Ghanaian girls in journalism and media production to help them speak out against gender discrimination.

Labels: international, conference, HPV

Posted By: Aspen/CRC 0 Comments

An Oct. 8 conference in Springfield, Massachusetts is designed to address the range of issues facing at-risk girls and the professionals who work with them. A Sept. 8 article in the Massachusetts newspaper The Republican provided the following details:

Educators, social workers, service providers and anyone who interacts with at-risk girls are invited to the fifth annual "Through Her Eyes: The Experience of Girls and the Juvenile Justice System" conference.

The event, with a theme this year of "Empowering Girls Through Social Change," focuses on how to best meet the needs of female juvenile offenders in Western Massachusetts.

Ja'Net Smith, interim program director for the Terri Thomas Girls Program, a detention, stabilization and short-term treatment program for girls, said the juvenile justice system has primarily focused on males.

"The way it's approached is through a male model," Smith said. "We feel it's important to focus on best practices with girls. The people that work with girls day in and day out. I don't think they often have venues like this where they can network with each other and hear from experts regarding the work they do."

Registration fees for the conference, which will be held in Springfield's MassMutual Center, are $120 (general admission) or $100 (students). For more about the conference visit www.throughhereyes.org.

Labels: at-risk youth, conference, juvenile offenders

Posted By: Aspen/CRC 0 Comments