A Long, Long Time Ago
Name the book that inspired the founding of the organization in 1996.
Reviving Ophelia
This Social Work expert serving as our current board chair, first got involved at the agency when she was a master’s intern facilitating the program now called Girl Connect.
Dr. Eboni Lunsford Calbow
This team of highly engaged volunteers serve as the governing body of the organization. They carry responsibilities such as guiding the agency’s strategy and ensuring legal compliance and financial health.
Board of Directors
This newest acronym popping up around the agency means that our signature annual event is going to travel to school partners this year.
WAGOTR
Staff and VISTAs who plan to be away from the office more than this many consecutive days, are asked to send the staff@ email list a quick heads up before you take off.
Three
Which of these is not one of our retired programs or program names: Girl Talk, GENovators, 180 Program, Connectline, clubGEN, OriGENal Voice.
GENovators - that was a donor group!
Our board members all sit on various subcommittees to help lead agency initiatives. Name 2 currently active committees a board member sits on.
Executive Committee, Scale, Governance, Development, Mission, DEI, Policy, and Communications.
Name 3 currently employed staff people who originally started as a volunteer, intern, or VISTA member.
Iridia, Kayleigh, Chelsea, Courtney, Mallory, Adreayn, and Brittany
The acronym was retired formally by the agency in 2019, not that our friends in the community won’t stop using it!
GEN
This is the name of the application that you are asked to install on your work computer and use to scan monthly to protect against malware and other cyber threats.
Bitdefender
The Spark Change Project is where our current high school employees are engaged, but that is the second program in the agency’s history to employ teens leading activities with near-peers. What was the first?
clubGEN, now Girl Connect
This staff position is the only one who is technically a member of the Board of Directors.
The Executive Director position is an “ex officio” member.
Name 4 intern positions offered at Girls Empowerment Network.
Data and Operations, Direct Service, Pathfinder Leadership Summit, Policy and Advocacy, Project Management, Research and Evaluation, Spanish Linguistics/Direct Service Intern
This acronym is one we use frequently, but it comes to us from the federal government, along with special staff roles who work on capacity building projects. For points, name both the acronym and what it stands for.
VISTA, Volunteers In Service To America
It doesn't matter if you’re in the program department or not, if you attend one of our programs, you’ll have to break confidentiality if a girl discloses one or more of these 3 things to you.
Someone is hurting her, she is hurting herself/plans to hurt herself, or she is hurting/plans to hurt someone else.
The first two years that the We Are Girls Conference was held in Austin, it was led under this program name.
Girls Now
This document is something that the board secretary manages every meeting. It’s an accounting of what the content of the meeting was and it is required to be formally reviewed and approved at the next board meeting.
Over 1,000 people have personally recommended to me that this music icon should volunteer to be the keynote speaker at the We Are Girls Houston Conference.
Beyoncé
This initiative asks volunteers to write page-long letters aimed to inspire, encourage, uplift, and celebrate girls throughout our community. For points, name both the acronym and what it stands for.
RRML, Relatable Role Model Letters
Formally created in this year, our parental leave policy ensures that new parents, by birth or adoption, get paid leave.
2019
This middle school in South Austin is a frequent Girl Connect site. But before that, it was where the organization was housed prior to 2007 (when we moved to the Ann Richards campus.) Hint, for points, we’re looking for the school’s current name.
Lively Middle School
Our bylaws require at least 3 board members at any time. Within +/- 5 people, what is the maximum number of board members allowed?
Answer: 24, so any answer 19-29
Independent Sector, along with the Do Good Institute, announced in April 2021 that the latest value of a volunteer hour is what? (Within $1.50 to receive points)
$28.54
The Spark Change Project is a collaboration between Girls Empowerment Network and this phenomenal organization. For points, name both the acronym and what it stands for.
EAF, Excellence and Advancement Foundation
Per IRS guidelines, all employees who received at least HOW MUCH in compensation during any two preceding calendar years (whether or not consecutive) are eligible to participate in a simple IRA plan for the calendar year.
$5,000