Jonelle Saunders, who served as a mentor with SWSG Pittsburgh when she was an undergraduate at Carnegie Mellon University, recently won the Jefferson Award Youth Service Challenge! The award recognized the “Supporting our Cause” service project she created for the SWSG curriculum. As an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, Saunders was recently interviewed about the project and her experience with Strong Women, Strong Girls. The...

The focus of Strong Women, Strong Girls is fostering mutual cycles of empowerment among women and girls of all ages. But after our days of formal education are long over, do we, as women, ever pause to recognize when we are actively being empowered? Do we acknowledge how many forms empowerment may come in – whether it is a connection made through a mentor, a word of encouragement from a coworker, or…the moment of inner peace...

After the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, you might be thinking, “Wow, I need a break!” If you’re a young girl with a female mentor, you’re in luck! “‘She Gives Me a Break from the World’: Formal Youth Mentoring Relationships Between Adolescent Girls and Adult Women” highlights benefits with which female-youth mentoring relationships provide girls: Real emotional support; Development of new skills and...

Strong Women, Strong Girls is gearing up for Spring Training! At the beginning of each semester, Strong Women, Strong Girls brings together all mentors and adult volunteers in each SWSG city for a training day that includes workshops led by SWSG staff and leaders and representatives from local organizations. Spring Training is the day when our whole SWSG community comes together to work on the skills that help us to carry out our mission of...

As a management consultant, I have had the amazing opportunity to work with many leaders. Over the years, I have been struck by the observation that there is not one specific leadership style to which leaders mold themselves to be the most effective or influential. Rather, each leader has developed a style built on their natural strengths to motivate, influence, and create sustainable change. This is my first year volunteering with Strong...