Girl Rising
- A Advocate
- F Funder
- I Implementer
- N Network
Description
Girl Rising is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to change the way the world values girls and invests in their potential. Driven by decades of research demonstrating that educating girls is the single most effective way to address our world’s most pressing issues including health, poverty, peace and stability, and climate change, Girl Rising creates original media and creative campaigns about the universal benefits of educating girls. Working with local partners, Girl Rising reaches youth and their communities through customized curricula designed to build skills and confidence and address powerful social norms that hold girls back. Girl Rising proudly collaborates with many organizations, companies, influencers, teachers, students and grass-roots activists under the banner of girls' equality.
Primary Functions
- Awareness Raising/Advocacy
- Capacity building/Technical assistance
- Program/Project Implementation
Secondary Functions
- Funding
- Networking/Convening
Geographic Scope
- Global / regional
Areas of work Back to Top
Education topics addressed
Attainment
- Primary to secondary transition
- Secondary completion
Other
- Other
Other skills
- Financial literacy
- Life skills/sexuality education
- Rights/empowerment education
- Social and emotional learning
Quality
- Curricula/lesson plans
- School quality
- School-related gender-based violence
- Teacher training
Skills
- Civics education
Cross-cutting topics addressed
- Adolescent pregnancy/childbearing
- Climate change
- Empowerment
- Gender equality
- Social and gender norms and beliefs
- Violence (at home, in relationships)
Funders and partners Back to Top
Current girls’ education funders
Current girls' education partners
Locations and contact information Back to Top
Website
Headquarters location(s)
- New York, New York, United States of America
Office location(s)
- India
- United States of America
Contacts
- Jill Miller
- Chief Program & Admin Officer
- jill@girlrising.org
- Girl Rising
Locations of current girls’ education work
Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs
- Argentina
- Guatemala
- India
- Indonesia
- Kenya
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Thailand
- United States of America
- Viet Nam