Empowering Girls for Success:

Summer Camps & Programming Can Boost The Academic Year

Summer camps aren't just about making memories! Camp experiences can help shape the future for girls - fostering ease in being themselves and fearlessly taking on challenges.

Grants from the Women's Foundation of Boston to organizations like GirlStart and Girl Scouts of Central & Western Massachusetts have helped make summer programming possible for many girls in Massachusetts.

These camp experiences, including those with STEM-based programming, encourage young girls to broaden horizons, boost resilience and unleash their creativity, leading them to success in the future.

Learn more about how our grantee partners create summer experiences for girls in our latest blog!

World Youth Skills Day 2023

In 2014, the UN declared July 15th as World Youth Skills Day, with the objective to “celebrate the strategic importance of equipping young people with skills for employment, decent work, and entrepreneurship.”

The 2023 theme was "skilling teachers, trainers and youth for a transformative future." Much of the work done by WFBoston's grantee partners is focused on skilling Boston's women to prepare them for the workforce to enable them to build a more sustainable future. With focuses on STEM, financial literacy and other critical skills, we are creating a world where no one is left behind!

Read more from the UN on this important day here and learn more about how some of our grantee partners are skilling women below!

Grantee Partner Highlight: Girlstart

Girlstart is a national female-led nonprofit organization offering year-round out of school STEM programming for free to girls in grades 4-8. These STEM experiences are designed to accelerate academic progress in girls furthest from opportunity by providing meaningful exposure to STEM through after-school programs and summer camps.

Through a one-year grant in 2021 and a three-year grant in 2022, the Women's Foundation of Boston has enabled Girlstart to expand their presence in Greater Boston and the Gateway Cities with free after-school STEM programming and weeklong engineering and technology-intensive summer camps for 4-5th grade girls in low-income situations.

Read more here

Women's Foundation of Boston in the Community

The Women's Foundation of Boston was recently selected as a charity of choice for the DraftKings Gather on the Green charity golf outing!

The event raised money for charities chosen by the company's three Business Resource Groups (BRGs) and WFBoston was thrilled to be selected by DraftKings Women's BRG. We appreciate you!

CALLING ALL RUNNERS!

It's our 3rd year as an official charity partner of the Boston 10K for Women and we're excited for this fun, inspirational run along the Charles River.

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