GOAL PARTNERS WITH RAYTHEON AGAIN TO PRESENT GIRL'S LEADERSHIP SUMMIT

Nonprofit Organization Returns to Boston to Host Second Annual Corporate Summit

ATLANTA, GA (April 29, 2008) – GOAL, a nonprofit organization that provides experiential programs that build self-esteem and self-awareness in adolescent girls, is once again partnering with Raytheon Company to present the second annual Girls’ Leadership Summit – Inspiring Girls to Lead. The summit will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2008 and will bring together 70 middle school girls from the greater Boston area to discover their leadership potential.

GOAL will train Raytheon staff members to serve as volunteer facilitators, who will in turn lead the summit’s four workshops. The summit will introduce girls to women leaders and provide fun and engaging experiential activities that will explore the concept of leadership and encourage girls to realize their unique leadership potential. The workshops are: 

• Your Colorful Style - Girls identify the qualities of leadership and then choose which “style” is their natural tendency. Girls analyze their individual style and, along with team members, create a skit that demonstrates leadership style strengths and challenges.
• Instant Messaging: Redefining Girlhood - Girls analyze the messages of pop culture, identifying negative imagery in songs, magazines and television. Girls respond by creating a message-board, rewriting and thereby reclaiming the images associated with girlhood. In order to identify themselves as leaders, girls must first reject the associations disempowering them.  
• Fill’Er Up – Girls participate in an active game of odds. Using colorful chips, based on poor or positive decision making, participants either add or remove chips from their “stock.” Girls then discuss how the decisions they make can affect their self-esteem.   
• Everyday Sheroes - Girls will share “real-life” profiles of girl and women leaders, “everyday heroes” who achieved success by harnessing their inherent qualities to make a positive impact on the lives of others. Girls will then create an artistic piece identifying and listing the girls and women in their own lives who serve as positive role models.

About GOAL

GOAL's mission is to promote self-esteem, self-awareness and respect for individual differences in girls and young women, resulting in an enhanced capacity for leadership. GOAL provides girl-centered programs, training and expertise to organizational partners serving girls in early adolescence in all communities. For more information, visit www.goalonline.org or call (404) 214-1876.

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