Exciting Announcement Ive Joined The Board Of Shes The First

I could not be prouder than to share that I’ve joined the Board of Directors for She’s The First. You have read about She’s The First here on The Causemopolitan a few times – most recently about my “sweet sixteen x2″ birthday campaign to raise money for girls in Guatemala with bi-coastal birthday parties in New York and Los Angeles.

I was passionately looking for an organization I really believed in and where I felt my skills could be best utilized. I have quite a few organizations that I’m really passionate about – and a lot of those all of you know about read about here – but it’s been so thrilling to really focus on She’s The First and this gigantic year of acceleration for the team.

I want to give a huge thank you to so many of my friends, family, readers and supporters for supporting my birthday campaign and also for supporting She’s the First last year. Together we raised $5,000!

Because of all of our efforts together, 15 students in Solola, Guatemala are sponsored in 2012, through a She’sThe First partner organization Starfish One by One. 15!!! That’s incredible. Go to shesthefirst.org to see year-round updates on how the girls are doing–including video footage from a volunteer trip to Guatemala this spring.

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So what’s next? Our 2012 goals include:

DOUBLING the number of girls we’re sponsoring annually, to more than 300

Increasing our She’s the First*{Campus} chapters from 21 to 50, training 500+ high school and college students to act as young global leaders

Piloting an after-school program with the Young Women’s Leadership Schools in NYC, reaching 1,000+ girls who will be first in their families to go to college

Forming new sponsorship program partnerships worldwide

Raising a budget to hire our first employee, capacity building

Hosting a bigger GIRLS WHO ROCK concert during Internet Week NY (May 18) to raise $50,000 for theShanti Bhavan school in India

If you’d like to get more involved on a personal level just let me know – would love to have you on board!