Girls Empowerment Network
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Girls Empowerment Network Celebrate the New Year and party your own way, while helping GENaustin build girls of influence!

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GENaustin brings its third annual “Gala in a Box” to you on April 9, 2010! Everyone loves a surprise and GENaustin’s Gala in a Box promises just that! A Gala in a Box sponsorship ensures that you receive multiple Gala boxes filled to the brim with fun and fancy treats! ...
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Girls Empowerment Network Help us enter a New Year as we challenge cyberbullying, violence and body image pressure that young women face in adolescence of 21st -century .

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Company Matching Gift Programs, Workplace Giving, Gift of Stock, In-kind donations from Amazon Wishlist or Volunteering your time.
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Girls Empowerment Network Happy New Year to all our FB Fans.

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Girls Empowerment Network Spread the Cheer by clicking here!

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We have made it made easy to build strong girls, make a gift of $25 a month to support a teen girl in any one of GENaustin’s programs—clubgen afterschool, campGEN summer, and the Girls Now year-round workshops.
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Girls Empowerment Network Spread the Cheer...help a girl find her inner greatness.

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Girls Empowerment Network On behalf of girls we reach every year, a holiday thank you & warm wishes for 2010 from GENaustin.

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Girls Empowerment Network The gender gap in computer science may have been widened by Star Trek,
a new study suggests — but it could be bridged with a less geeky image.

www.sciencenews.org
Surroundings can ‘communicate a sense of belonging’ or ‘exclusion’
Carolyn
Carolyn
what's wrong with being geeky?!
December 20, 2009 at 4:04pm
Lora Alaniz
Lora Alaniz
I don't think strong adult women find geeky an issue, but the article suggest that because of the media's portral of the field, girls find it less appealing and we should consider "nonstereotypical depictions of computer science, in the media and in classrooms" to help gain teen girls attention. Seems like a doable effort to me.
December 22, 2009 at 10:44am
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Author and educator, Rachel Simmons examines the challenges that face young women as they surf the waves of 21st -century adolescence. Will these girls stride confidently through newly opened doors or ...
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Girls Empowerment Network Have an old boat, RV, or truck taking up holiday parking space?

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Donate your car to GENaustin and help them succeed in its mission to foster healthy self-esteem in girls.
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For years, kids who were the victims of bullying and teasing at school or on the playground could find refuge at home. But in the age of new technology, bullying has become a 24-hour problem, with harassers able to taunt and tease their peers through e-mail, text messages and social networks.
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Girls Empowerment Network Click and Give to GENaustin this Holiday Season.

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We have some great ways to give this holiday season. Nothing is too small to keep GENaustin's programs going.
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Girls Empowerment Network Help GENaustin unplug cyber bullies this holiday.

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At GENaustin we believe that your financial contribution should go straight to helping teen girls. That is why we focus on maximizing the impact of the donation you have entrusted with us, and minimizing the administrative costs.
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Girls Empowerment Network New statistics on Sexting: Interviews find some teens think sexting is no big deal; others say lives ruined.

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Nearly one-sixth of teens who own cell phones have received nude or nearly nude images via text message from someone they know, according to a new survey on "sexting" from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
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Girls Empowerment Network Listen to Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies reports on GENaustin's efforts to unplug cyber bullies.

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Bullies have come a long way from beating someone up for their milk money. Schoolyard bullies have been around as long as there have been schoolyards. But with new social media technologies comes new ways for bullies to inflict misery.
Lora Alaniz
Lora Alaniz
Great story.
December 18, 2009 at 6:35am
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Girls Empowerment Network Watch an Excerpt of the New PBS Special documentary “A Girl’s Life!” that follows four teen girls as they face cyberbullying, violence and body image pressure. Airs on December 30 at 8:00. Check your local station for listings.