“I attended a BGEN workshop and it was amazing! The training was so helpful as it restructured the design of or GSO to reach more girls in Boston. We are excited and confident to offer our new and improved curriculum that encourages female leadership in and out of the classroom!”
Our Programs and Initiatives
BGEN is happy to offer gender-specific and culturally relevant services like: immigrant and refugee support, healthcare and education, leadership training, girls’ leadership development. Beyond this, we support public policies that benefit the development of women and girls by creating awareness of current gender specific policy issues.
We marshal support to push through gender specific bills and prepare and present an annual "Girls Trend Report" to inform and raise city and state gender programming standards, ultimately uplifting Boston’s women and girls.
GIRLS’ LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
BGEN engages girls ages 17-21 within our community network, introducing them to gender-specific work by offering community services and internship opportunities, summer leadership training, local and international service projects exposure, and youth slots on our steering committee and network.
INCREASE NETWORK MEMBERSHIP
We develop relationships with more women and girl-serving organizations to continue field-building activities such as gender responsive curriculum development, defining common outcomes, presenting research and sharing best-practices. We hope to engage 8-10 more organizations
Delivering gender-specific training
Our gender-responsive training creates awareness on current issues and best practices for women and girl-serving providers. These trainings are offered monthly and include topics such as: gender responsive program design, girls adolescent development, cultural competence, salary negotiation, woman's health issues, immigrant girls trends, and advocacy for gender specific legislation and many others.
CALL TO ACTion
We value training and equipping GSOs to advocate for gender responsive policy through advocacy workshops and monthly "Calls to Action" events; where providers call and write legislators and encourage them to support gender-specific bills such as the Equal Pay, Girls, Female Anti-Genital Mutilation bills, etc.
research
We present annual research on women and girls by offering a "Girls Trend Report". This research is geared towards GSO leaders, service providers, donors and public officials. Research presentations will be first made to network members, to ensure that women and girl serving providers have opportunities to give feedback; and then to partners, donors and public officials to keep them abreast of the issues that impact public policy and gender-specific work.
funding
Although, funding for gender-responsive programming, provider technical assistance and advocacy work has been limited, BGEN is committed to working with local, regional and national funders to support capacity-building investments and explore opportunities for developing diverse funding streams.