“We believe adolescent girls are the most powerful catalysts for change on the planet,” wrote UN Foundation President & CEO Kathy Calvin and Nike Foundation President & CEO Maria Eitel in a piece that appeared on the Guardian website this week.

Drum roll please … Meet Melissa Hillebrenner, the new director of Girl Up! We recently caught up with our awesome new director, who weighed in on the importance of empowering adolescent girls, her passion for Girl Up, and her favorite girl power song! Oh, and did we mention she is headed to Guatemala next week to see one of our Girl Up programs for the first time?

Want to develop the skills you need to drive change for girls everywhere? We’re excited to bring our second annual Girl Up Leadership Summit to Washington, D.C. from June 10-12, and you're invited!

When I was in school, the two biggest continents in the world rarely registered in the curriculum. My children know so much more than I knew, and I am sure they will do amazing things with the knowledge they're gaining now.

In February, the Miami Country Day School Girl Up club ran an awareness assembly for over 300 guests. First, homerooms watched a few clips about Malala and discussed the meaning of perseverance in relation to this hero.

Wilson High School Girl Up club members Kelsey Baez and Rebecca Ruvalcaba discuss their club's joint fundraiser with Threads of Hope.

As our first official fundraiser, the Miami Country Day School Girl Up Club made and sold bracelets and necklaces.

This week, Miami Country Day Girl Up Club school held our first annual “Bake-Off.”

Yeshi-Alem was forced to marry when she was 10 years. Now at 18, she's been married nearly half her life to her husband Moges, who is believed to be 28.

Before I came to the program I was alone at home, no one to teach me and care for me.  I had no means to leave my house. But in the center I became friends with the other girls and my mentors.

We recently caught up with Denise Dunning, Director, and Emily Teitsworth, Program Coordinator, of the AGALI team. These awesome women weighed in on what American girls can do to help their counterparts in developing nations and what their favorite girl power song is at the moment!

Beyoncé has achieved great success for herself as a singer, actress, and businesswoman, and she has also dedicated herself to making the world a better place. Here's why she's our Fab Female this Friday.

My dad was a Kabila soldier. He was killed in a mission. One night in 2003, after my dad had passed, the rebels attacked our house. They arrested my mom, beat her, and took her to jail where we couldn't see her.

This week Girl Up Director Gina Reiss-Wilchins is attending the Global Philanthropy Forum. This conference aims to build a community of donors and social investors who committed to international causes. Check out her question to Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, about child marriage!

As the holiday season approaches, all of us here at Girl Up are realizing how many great things we have in our lives. So in celebration of the American holiday Thanksgiving, we’ve all come up with a list of things we’re thankful for.

As the holiday season approaches, all of us here at Girl Up are realizing how many great things we have in our lives. So in celebration of the American holiday Thanksgiving, we’ve all come up with a list of things we’re thankful for.

As the holiday season approaches, all of us here at Girl Up are realizing how many great things we have in our lives. So in celebration of the American holiday Thanksgiving, we’ve all come up with a list of things we’re thankful for.

As the holiday season approaches, all of us here at Girl Up are realizing how many great things we have in our lives. So in celebration of the American holiday Thanksgiving, we’ve all come up with a list of what we’re thankful for.

Bring out the cake and ice cream for the birthday girls! This Friday September 30, Girl Up is turning one. But we can’t blow out the candles alone.

By the time the doors opened to kick off our Unite for Girls Tour in New York, brought to you by our partner Clean and Clear, there was so much excitement in the air!

We are so excited to have a new class of Teen Advisors join us this fall. Very soon you will get to meet them! In the meantime, we asked each of them the question: “Why is education important to you?” 

Education, starting with girls, is the first step to unleashing the wealth and power of women to transform our lives.

Here's an easy way to help girls in developing countries have greater access to education, using the one thing most of us check daily: Facebook.

Some of us go to summer camp for sports and some of us go for dance, but on July 19th, Girl Up went to camp to celebrate being a girl.

Hi! Our names are Leslie, Olivia, Rumya, Antonia and Eileen. At our school, we have an extra hour every week called “X-Period” that we dedicate to doing various community service projects. It’s our way to give back to the community, the world and it helps kids get into helping others in need.