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About us
Launch Girls is a nonprofit dedicated to equipping adolescent girls with the skills, information, and support required to enter and thrive in the world of work. We are a team of gender experts who specialize in using entrepreneurship education to create economic empowerment programming for adolescent girls.
Launch Girls is a registered 501c3 non-profit in the United States and registered Section 8 Company in India with 80G and 12A certificates. We are a global team with members who live and work around the world in India, Kenya, and the U.S.
Launch Girls is a knowledge partner that collaborates with local organizations across South Asia and Africa that are working closely with adolescent girls ages 14-24. We focus on building the capacity of our partners and provide comprehensive tools including curriculum, training, and facilitator's guides to successfully deliver programming.
Launch Girls works with organizations from around the world that are dedicated to supporting and empowering adolescent girls and young women, even if they are co-ed. We work with two different types of partners: Institutional and Network partners.
Institutional partners are national or international nonprofits, government institutions, and/or school systems that serve a minimum of 10,000 girls ages 14-24 from underserved communities. They need a holistic intervention to support the girls they work with and are looking for a partner to help them transform and enhance their ecosystem.
Network partners are community-based organizations, nonprofits, and/or schools that need Girl Boss programming, have dedicated facilitators for programming, and are able to cover all implementation costs. These organizations have access to the internet and technology and are digitally proficient to undertake online and virtual training.
While both girls and boys benefit from developing 21st-century professional skills, girls often lack the same access, freedom, and encouragement during adolescence. Launch Girls recognizes that girls must develop their own agency and be prepared to navigate economies that may not be designed for their success. By applying a girl lens to professional skills, knowledge, and support, Launch Girls aims to empower girls to overcome these obstacles and achieve equal representation, fair pay, and opportunities for advancement. While boys are welcome to participate in our programs, our focus remains on meeting the needs of underserved and overlooked adolescent girls.
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Program and Impact
Girl Boss is a portfolio of programs created by Launch Girls that prepare girls for the world of work whether it's through entrepreneurship or employment. Different Girl Boss programs focus on different aspects of this preparation, but all programs enable girls to develop critical 21st-century professional skills, personal agency, and support networks. Check out our Girl Boss programs for more information.
Institutional partners: Programming will be customized and co-created with the partner based on a needs assessment that Launch Girls conducts prior to starting the intervention.
Network partners: During onboarding and training, Launch Girls will provide different ways to locally contextualize the curriculum and adapt how the program can be implemented to fit into different schedules. Ultimately, local customization will be at the partner's discretion.
Each Girl Boss program helps girls develop Girl Boss Mindsets and Skills, 7 core entrepreneurial and work-readiness skills, which have been specifically identified to equip adolescent girls to take charge of their futures and successfully transition from school to work. These skills and mindsets are Confidence & Self-belief, Effective Communication, Strategic Thinking, Change Readiness, Digital & Information Literacy, Financial Literacy, Collaboration & Support Networks.
In addition to skill development and mindset shifts, all girls leave the program with a portfolio of work and a personal or business pitch. Portfolio contents change based on the program, but most contain a business or future plan, budget, business or personal brand, and identified support network.
Launch Girls focuses on equipping girls with the necessary skills, knowledge, and support to succeed in life after education. While we do not directly provide employment opportunities or job placement services, we partner with complementary organizations to support direct market linkages, ensuring girls have access to employment opportunities beyond our core programming.
Partner Operations &
Logistics
Launch Girls provides everything a partner needs to successfully implement Girl Boss programs, including curriculum, online training, program management tools, and impact assessment. Visit our Partner page for a full list of what Launch Girls provides partners.
Partners must provide someone to manage the program and be a point of contact for Launch Girls and facilitators, a safe space and time to meet, printing participant and facilitator handbooks, and any additional implementation expenses (example: snacks for participants). Program implementation is successful when there is someone to manage the program, and facilitators do not manage more than 30 participants in a cohort. Visit our Partner page for a complete list of what partners must provide to successfully implement Girl Boss programming.
Mentor - As mentors, GBAs help girls identify their strengths and areas of growth and guide their professional and personal development.
Facilitator - GBAs guide girls as they discover knowledge independently and help them learn and grow as a group. They moderate discussions, ask meaningful questions for reflection, and encourage girls to participate. With the participants, they create a safe space for everyone to speak, share their thoughts, and feel like an important part of the team.
Role Model - Whether GBAs realize it or not, they inspire the girls, and they look up to them. They lead by example because they are Girl Bosses, too, and show the girls what it's like to be one.
Coordinator - GBAs ensure the participation and engagement of the girls in the program and relay information with sufficient clarity about the activities and the learning objectives in each session.
Our age range indicates the ages and developmental stages where our programs are most effective. After extensive piloting and research, we discovered that our programming has greater success with older adolescent girls and young women. We strongly recommend not implementing Girl Boss for girls younger than 14 years old.
Yes! While we provide the curriculum in English, we have many partners who conduct Girl Boss in a hybrid of English and local languages, and some partners who choose to fully translate the curriculum. We are working on translations of different programs, and when they are complete, we will make them available to partners.
For Network partners, there is no minimum enrollment. You can conduct Girl Boss programming for any number of girls. Though, we have found that 30:1 or less is an ideal participant to facilitator ratio. With Institutional partners, we begin pilots with at least 1,000 participants.
Launch Girls has a private Facebook community for girls to connect with each other to build relationships and businesses across borders. We have created a WhatsApp group for partner and GBA support where the Launch Girls and peer support are provided.
Apply to become a Launch Girls partner! Click the "Collaborate" button at the top of the website and fill out the form. Once you are approved, you can begin whenever you want.
Financials
No, Launch Girls is a knowledge partner and does not provide funding to implement the program.
Most of our programs are implemented weekly but can be customized by partners. Expenses that partners might need to account for are:
Facilitator salary: time spent preparing for and implementing the program
Printing
Facilitator guides and participant planners, booklets or worksheets
Posters and flyers to advertise Girl Boss
Any expenses tied to providing a safe space to meet weekly
Optional expenses
Snacks
Notebooks and pens
Cake for graduation and graduation decorations
Launch Girls currently does not provide any seed funding directly to participants to start businesses.