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Mark your calenders!!!
24th Annual Celebration Luncheon
March 27, 2012
Ritz-Carlton,
Sarasota
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Check out the new and
improved Girls Inc. website!!! Thank you to The Community Foundation of Sarasota County "Boost" Grant which funded the revised site. Watch current episodes of Girl TV right on the homepage!
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Thank you to the generous donor who saw a need and helped us fullfill it!
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Career Thursdays
This summer Girls Inc. invited a series of professional women to introduce our girls a wide array of professions they might like to learn about and consider.
Each speaker shares
with a different MicroSociety business about how they became interested in their profession, what skills and education were needed to be employed in the field, and what likes and dislikes they had about their work. Thank you to our wonderful women who represent strong, smart and bold everyday!
Veronica Brady
Raymell Grimes
Barbara Kiracofe
Dawn Buff
Commissioner Nora Patterson
Carissa Dobyns
Pam Hindman
Caroline Zucker
Margaret Callihan
Gwen MacKenzie
Teri Hansen
Jaymie Klauber
Molly Jackson
Sally Schule
Olivia Thomas
Alexandra Quarles |
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"If you empower adolescent girls who are the mother of every child yet to be born - if they have more resources, better health, more empowerment, more of a role in their communities, decision making, they can delay marriage and become better educated - they have so much more to offer their sons, their daughters in that next generation." Jennifer Buffett
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Girls Inc.
Wish List
Services:
Van repair and maintenance
Car detailing and cleaning for vans
Landscaping service
Items:
Working laptops computers (at least Windows XP)
Flash drives
Digital cameras
blank DVDs
Gift Cards
(Publix, Target, WalMart, Home Depot and Lowes)
Office Supplies
School Supplies
Basic arts & crafts supplies (glue & glue
sticks, markers, crayons, clay, watercolor paint, construction paper)
Electric pencil sharpeners
Dry erase markers
Disposable food-service items (plates,ziplock bags cups, plastic ware)
Sports equipment in good condition (balls, jump ropes, hula hoops)
Small prizes for girls
Used jewelry with beads |
Watch Girl TV every Saturday morning on WWSB ABC 7 from 7:30-8:00am. Over 25,000 households watch our girls each Saturday!
To find out how you can become a sponsor of Girl TV call Kay at 366-6646 x 207. |
Girls TV Sponsorships - A Great Opportunity
We've got Neilson ratings!! Girls Inc TV Show, which airs each Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m on ABC-7, reaches 25,000
house holds of 18-34 year old women. Sponsorship opportunities are available. If you want to promote your product or organization - or simply support our talented TV girls. For additional information, contact Kay Mathers at kay@girlsincsrq.org or 941-366-6646, ext. 207
Supporters make Girls Inc. Great! |
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Girls Inc. Girls Head to New York!
Girls from Girls Inc. of Sarasota County are heading to New York City to participate in Girls Inc. Corporate Camp for Entrepreneurs.
Gabrielle Holt, Jennifer Fulkert, Meghan Gaitens, PJ Lewis and Fia Nicolos worked weekends and nights with volunteers Roxanne Joffe and Flori Roberts to create a new product idea to develop. Each person on the team takes on a role - CEO, Finances, Marketing, Sales, and Product Development. Then the team develops the business plan. Through this process the girls experience the business planning process. This camp provides girls with many tools to teach them about professional development in business and stimulate their thinking about entrepreneurial opportunities that exist for women.
During the Corporate Camp in New York, the girls will meet with women business leaders and entrepreneurs. The particpants of the Camp are strong, smart and bold teams of girls selected from Girls Inc. affiliates in the U.S. and Canada. Sam's Club is the sponsor of the camp. |
Oh the Places We Go!!!
The girls have had an busy and varied summer...here are just some of the cool places Girls Inc. girls get to enjoy!
- Mother/Daughter cooking class at the Hyatt courtesy of the Hyatt and All Faith's Food Bank
- Whole Foods Cooking Class
- Ritz-Carlton Spa
 - Culinary School at Keiser University
- Main Street Block party with Simply Spoiled, Lotus, Stitch Boutique, Picobello and Main Street Traders
- Lemur Conservation Research Facility
- Big Cat Habitat
- Ritz-Carlton Culinary visit
- Silvertooth Judicial Center
- Coast Guard
- Players Theater
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Girls Making the Rounds
Summer was off to a great start for 25 North Port girls that participated in our 5th annual Making Rounds Healthcare Career Camps. Girls spent a week connecting their personal skills with career choices. Girls interviewed women (and a few men) working in the health field, including an EMT, paramedic, dietician, phlebotomist, pharmacist, respiratory therapist, radiology technologist, surgical technologist, histologist, physicians and registered nurses in many specialties. Girls also identified their own personal interests, strengths and skills, and matched them to the over 300 options available in the healthcare industry. Englewood Community Hospital took the girls behind the scenes through many of the departments. At Sarasota  Memorial Hospital, girls were able to work hands-on with the patient simulators. North Port Fire Department explained the equipment used by EMTs and paramedics when responding to a call. While at the Florida Blood Centers, girls learned how the blood center has helped many children and teens their community and how donating blood can improve the health of the men in their lives. Participant comments included "I had a great experience" and "I have a big interest in health careers I didn't know about before." Our special thanks to Gulfcoast South AHEC for once again sponsoring this year's camps. |
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Donors for 5/20/11-6/29/11
$100 - $249
Ann Spinner Allen
Audrey & Bill Coleman
Carol Fisher
Colleen Tobin
E. Lee Byron
Erin Worthington
Erin & Ben Jones
Jack & Marilyn Wolff
Judith Bell
LaShawn Houston Frost
Laura & Stewart Lawrence
Nicole Penland & Andrew Creed
Robin Fernandez
Sheila & Roger Pies
Terri Vitale
Tricia Dickerson
Veronica & Jay Brady
Artistic Pools of Sarasota, Inc.
Office Depot Foundation
$250 - $999
Susan Brennan
Ann McGough
Barbara Somma
Caryn & Stephen Patterson
Ellen & Jeffrey Steinwachs
Kristen & Jeffreys Nichols
Tammy Lloyd
Virginia Nixon
Supplemental Instructional Services, Inc.
$1,000 - $9,999
Adlers Acres LLC
Barbara & Andrew Cervasio
Richard Barone
Community Foundation of Sarasota County
Livingston, Patterson, Strickland & Siegel, P.A.
London Bay Homes
Sarasota Gulf Gate Rotary Club
$10,000+
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| Want to Get Involved in Girls Inc.?
Summer is here and we need your help. We always need reading helpers, mentors and classroom assistants. Sports and field trips helpers are greatly needed also!Contact Kay Mathers at 366-6646 x207 for more information. |
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