WriteGirl News
WriteGirl Named Top-Rated Nonprofit by Great Nonpofits
WriteGirl made the list of Top-Rated Nonprofits of 2015 by GreatNonprofits.org, an honor given to nonprofits that receive a high number of positive reviews by volunteers and those served.
Do you have great things to say about WriteGirl as well? Write a review at GreatNonprofits.org!
Newsletter: Inspire a girl!
For our 15th anniversary season, we're making it our goal to match every girl with her own mentor.
We have more than 40 girls on a waiting list for a mentor. This means we need to train more volunteers than ever before. Please help us spread the word!
Introducing Emotional Map of Los Angeles!
WRITEGIRL LAUNCHES 14TH ANTHOLOGY
Introducing 190 stories from teen girls and their WriteGirl mentors. Stories of discovery, courage and resilience. From Boyle Heights to Santa Monica, these stories weave together an Emotional Map of Los Angeles.
WriteGirl Launches Bold Ink Writers!
The WriteGirl team is so excited to announce our inaugural program for teen boys—Bold Ink Writers! We’re branching out our program to use creative writing as a vehicle for self expression to cultivate the voices of more young people and develop the communication skills they need to achieve academic and professional success.
Read more about the Bold Ink Writers program here. And help us spread the word on your networks!
WriteGirl Takes on San Diego
On Saturday, March 21, 2015, WriteGirl partnered with The LiveWell Project on a dynamic one-day event for at-risk teens in San Diego. WriteGirl donated journals and WriteGirl books for all the girls, but we also took WriteGirl on the road to help support San Diego teens.
February Newsletter
Art inspires poetry + an upcoming red carpet event! Our February Newsletter is out. Read on!
WriteGirls Open for "A Shift in Gravity"
On the evening of January 19th and 20th, several of our girls read their original poetry and shared their writing advice to a crowd at The Matrix theater.
USC's Neon Tommy Features WriteGirl for Promoting Creative Diversity
WriteGirl featured for increasing creative diversity in the Los Angeles area on University of Southern California's website Neon Tommy.
From Mentee to Atomic Scientist: Meet WriteGirl Alumni
WriteGirl has thousands of alumnae studying and working all over the world. We’d like to introduce you to a few.
What do you get a teenage girl for the holidays?
What does she want?
What does she need?
Despite what she tells you, it’s not a hot new pair of jeans or an even flatter cellphone.
Those things are great, but they will only last a few years at best.
We have a list of things that will help a girl for her entire life…
Happy Holidays from WriteGirl
We blew the roof off the Music Center at the WriteGirl Songwriting Workshop a couple of weeks ago. Every teen girl – all 70 of them – was paired for the day with a woman writer. Twenty singer/songwriters joined us, to help coach our girls in writing song lyrics and offer insights into their creative processes. We listened to songs and analyzed their structure. We danced. We wrote about things we are passionate about.
‘TIS THE SEASON OF THE #UNSELFIE
SO what is “Giving Tuesday” exactly, you ask?
It’s the day following Black Friday & Cyber Monday…where we take a step back, think about everything we’ve gotten out of the holiday season and all of our moments of gratitude, and give a bit back to the universe in return.
We’re joining this movement to raise funds for WriteGirl…to expand our programs and make WriteGirl’s reach more vast & deep than ever, ensuring bright & bold futures
Departures Magazine Honors WriteGirl at Philanthropy Honors in New York
WriteGirl was honored at the Departures Magazine Philanthropy Honors gala on Oct. 7 in New York City, with keynote speaker Kevin Spacey and host Norah O'Donnell of *CBS This Morning*. Longtime WriteGirl supporter Margaret Hyde accepted the award for WriteGirl and spoke of WriteGirl’s 13-year history of empowering teen girls through creativity!
WriteGirl Exec. Dir. Keren Taylor featured in "The Visionary"
The new book The Visionary features WriteGirl Founder and Exec. Dir. Keren Taylor as one of 18 visionaries making an impact! Keren shares her vision to change the world by empowering girls through writing.
"We did the math one afternoon: our 150 volunteers give around 2,000 hours of their time every month. That is our way of bending time, of giving girls a new way to experience their high school years—a sort of parallel universe to school where they can express their ideas freely, ask questions of any kind and grow more confident in sharing their words out loud." – Keren Taylor
Click here to read more about Keren's vision for the future!
The 51 Percent: Conversations with Creative Women features WriteGirl Exec. Dir. Keren Taylor
Never underestimate the power of a girl and her pen. It's that philosophy that propelled Keren Taylor to start WriteGirl, a non-profit literacy program for underserved 13-18 year old girls in the L.A. area. Since its inception in 2001, it has helped hundreds of teens find their voices/calling and in 2013, Michelle Obama presented Keren and WriteGirl with the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award, the highest honor given to such endeavors. And just this year, Keren was selected a CNN Hero for her creative efforts to help young people. She is truly an inspiration.
WriteGirl could receive $100,000 to help build the LA of our dreams!
UPDATE: Voting has ended. We finished in the top 10 this year! Thank you to all who voted!
Vote for WriteGirl and we could receive $100,000 to provide teen girls with a safe, creative space to write. Voting ends Sept. 16! Let’s build the Los Angeles of our dreams!
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NEWSLETTER: Vote, Volunteer & Get Inspired with WriteGirl!
VOTE for WriteGirlAnyone/anywhere can vote to help WriteGirl!
VOLUNTEER with WriteGirl Are you a woman writer in Los Angeles? WriteGirl is seeking women writers for our 14th year of creative writing workshops and mentoring for teen girls.
Get inspired with super-creative writing prompts from WriteGirl teen writers!
Donate to the WriteGirl GET INSPIRED campaign to receive writing prompts from our teen girls, award-winning WriteGirl anthologies, and more!
UPDATE: The GET INSPIRED campaign has ended. Thank you to all who donated!
Edutopia features WriteGirl for boosting academic successAugust 26, 2014
Edutopia features WriteGirl for improving confidence and inspiring academic success
"Because of WriteGirl, I can write. It might sound silly -- because obviously this is WriteGirl -- but it's never been silly to me. Growing up with dyslexia meant that my writing was always less eloquent and less readable than everyone else's. I grew up not trusting my writing, not trusting my words, and, eventually, not even trusting my own voice. Society taught me my voice was unimportant because I was a girl and my learning disability taught me to silence that voice completely. It wasn't until I joined WriteGirl that someone taught me to speak up." – Emily, Grade 12
WriteGirl Featured on "Images & Voices of Hope"
IVOH Article: How GlobalGirl Media, WriteGirl & The Op-Ed Project are helping women strengthen their voices, writing.
News of women being silenced domestically and abroad isn’t new. Nor is the lack of accuracy when it comes to how women are portrayed in stories about rape, race, poverty, and immigration – if they’re covered at all.
Determined to change the rules of the game, organizations such as GlobalGirl Media, WriteGirl and The Op-Ed Project are arming young girls and women with the tools they need to make their voices heard.