Ready to celebrate the power and joy of play?

This August, Girls Leadership is celebrating the power of play. Last year, our community rallied around girls and tapped into the spirit and power of play. This year, we're inviting you to play with us again with one simple question:

How can you add play to your day?

Join our Summer Play Campaign as we raise $65,000 to support girls and gender-expansive youth and the educators, coaches, and program staff who help them grow into leaders.

Here's what girls already know:

Play isn't the opposite of leadership. It's where leadership is built.

Through play girls build confidence, strengthen relationships, practice resilience and discover their voice. When girls play they are free to take risks, make mistakes, explore, and experience the trust, connection and belonging that make leadership possible.

And this doesn’t start with girls alone, but also, with the adults who surround them. When educators, coaches, and youth serving professionals make room for play, they model curiosity, courage, and learning. As a result, girls learn they belong, their ideas matter, and leadership can display collaboration, creativity, and confidence.

This summer, we're embracing play as our superpower! Play is how we spark joy, strengthen communities, and remind girls they belong.

Your gift to the Summer Play Campaign makes play possible:

$50 trains a family service provider to facilitate family support programming, helping families play and practice leadership together.
$100 provides tools and resources for a sports coach to bring more play into practice, cultivating a sense of belonging for every girl on their team.
$250 supports professional development for one teacher to attend Girls Leadership's signature multi-day training, gaining skills to bring the power of play into their classroom and build communities of belonging.
$500 provides two stipends for girls to participate in our youth-led work — playing, leading, and shaping the programs built for them — removing barriers to access and affirming that their lived experience and time are valuable.

Any donation at any level is a commitment to a world where girls can use their voice and lead.

And this year, we're inviting our entire community to experience the power of play alongside us.

Make your gift today and you will receive the Summer Play Bucket List! Once you donate, download the bucket list and find simple ways to play with your friends, your family, your community.

When you play from the bucket list, you're joining girls everywhere in practicing the very things this campaign is about: joy, connection, and leadership. Together, we can ensure every girl has the opportunity to lead with joy.

Want to become a play ambassador? Email jazmine@girlsleadership.org.

Summer Play Campaign

Add Play to Your Day!

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