Here We Grow!

Welcome to “Here We Grow,” the fundraising campaign for Helping Girls Navigate Adolescence, a Downers Grove-based non-profit organization aimed at educating and empowering girls and their parents. “Here We Grow” seeks to raise funds to support our 10th Anniversary Strategic Plan and launch us into our next exciting decade while focusing on:
  • Expansion of girl empowerment and parent education programs to meet the growing demands in our community. (HGNA’s quality, high value programs often need to be subsidized.)
  • Publishing and licensing our banner “Chick Chat” program so that it can be shared with more communities while creating a future revenue stream for HGNA.
  • Building sustainability into the organization including board development; volunteer recruitment; securing office, storage and program space; and creating an impactful marketing plan.
It’s been 10 years since a small group of Downers Grove women launched HGNA to provide girls and their parents with tools to navigate adolescence with confidence, kindness and resilience. Since that time our organization has served thousands of girls and parents by creating the hugely popular Chick Chat program for fourth- through sixth-graders, offering the CORE program to ease girls’ adjustment to middle school, creating HGNA Dads to provide fathers with support and insights into the challenges faced by their adolescent daughters, and by regularly sponsoring nationally recognized speakers who offer exceptional continuing education to parents and professionals.

Yet, the myriad challenges facing girls have only intensified over the past decade. During that time, we’ve seen the advent of the “selfie culture” of shallow perfection, the proliferation of social media platforms that allow for constant interaction, and spiraling academic stresses that have pushed too many young women to the breaking point.

It can be a toxic brew for girls who are trying to find their place in a world that seems to expect them to be perfect in every way. But it’s a challenge that HGNA has every intention of meeting as it looks forward to developing programs and events to reach even more girls in the years ahead.

To fulfill that vision, we launched “Here We Grow,” HGNA’s most significant fundraising effort to date. Our goal is to raise $20,000 by December 31 in order to enable us to grow our programs and organization, and expand our service to the community.

Won’t you please help us continue our work on behalf of the girls of our community? All donors’ names will appear on a six-foot banner stand that will be at all of our events, reflecting their level of giving.

Sponsorship levels include:
$1500 and above: Blossom Level
$1000 to $1499: Petal Level
$500 to $999: Leaf Level
$250 to $499: Stem Level
$100 to $249: Seed Level
$99 and below: Root Level

Thank you!

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