Native Youth Sexual Health Network (NYSHN)
An organization by and for Indigenous youth that works across issues of sexual and reproductive health, rights and justice throughout the United States and Canada.
Be Her Resource: A Toolkit About School Resource Officers and Girls of Color
This toolkit is based on first-of-their-kind focus groups and interviews conducted by the Center on Poverty and the National Black Women’s Justice Institute with school resource officers (SROs) and girls of color. It offers strategies and guidance to improve interactions between school-based police and girls of color and decrease the disproportionate use of exclusionary school discipline against girls of color. The research was focused on the South, an area often overlooked in related research.
Amelia Bloomer Project
A project of the Feminist Task Force, a part of the American Library Association, members compile annual lists of recommended feminist books for youth (since 2002).
Brave, Active & Resourceful Females in Picture Books
A bibliography of resources for beginning and young readers.
The Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC)
Recommended books for girls and boys. Especially helpful for finding multicultural resources.
Girls’ Education
Girls’ education and promoting gender equality is part of a broader, holistic effort by the World Bank Group. It includes ensuring that girls do not suffer disproportionately in poor and vulnerable households, and advancing skills and job opportunities for adolescent girls and young women.
I AM THAT GIRL
I AM THAT GIRL is a 501(c)3 organization helping girls to transform self-doubt in to self-love by providing a safe space to connect and have honest conversations about things that matter. Every day, girls are bombarded with messages that attack what she is NOT and we work every day to help her love who SHE IS; to see that in herself and inspire that in others.
White House Report: Women and Girls of Color: Addressing Challenges and Expanding Opportunity
A White House Council on Women and Girls report that highlights work the Obama Administration has done to reduce barriers to success for everyone including women and girls of color.
Where the Girls Are: The Facts About Gender Equity in Education
Presents a comprehensive look at the educational achievement of girls during the past 35 years, paying special attention to the relationship between girls’ and boys’ progress.
UNGEI AT 10: A Journey to Gender Equality in Education
Documents the United Nations Girls’ Education Initiative’s activities over the last 10 years and its value-added function in advancing the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as they relate to gender, education, poverty reduction and the Education for All goals.