Atlanta, Georgia – Lady Scouts of Higher Atlanta (GSGATL) introduced that the group raised almost half 1,000,000 {dollars} at its inaugural Evening of a Million Goals gala, held on the Delta Flight Museum on March 30. The funds raised will be certain that all women, no matter their financial background, can get pleasure from all facets of this system, from attending camp to exploring profession paths and incomes management and abilities badges, all whereas making lifelong mates.
The council additionally acknowledged three recipients of its Dare to Dream, Trailblazer and Altering the World awards. Honorees included, respectively, Atlanta Dream President and Chief Working Officer Morgan Shaw Parker, Atlanta Workplace Managing Director at Accenture Chloe Barzey, and Yglesias Hollins, Director of Neighborhood Improvement at The Coca-Cola Firm.
The three ladies share greater than extremely profitable skilled lives. They every grew up within the group and credit score it with driving profession ambitions and civic accountability.
- Yglesias Hollins is the drive connecting Communities in Colleges Atlanta and Lady Scouts to serve greater than 400 center faculty women, fully backed, since program inception in the course of the pandemic.
- Chloe Barzey, the primary Black girl to steer the Atlanta Accenture workplace, acquired a Lady Scout scholarship masking her troop and membership prices, opening her eyes to prospects she mentioned she didn’t see rising up in Harlem, NY.
- Morgan Shaw Parker leads the Atlanta Dream WNBA workforce. She is a lifelong Lady Scout advocate and in addition earned her Gold Award, the best achievement in Lady Scouting.
“There must be a platform that may meet a younger woman the place she is at a really younger age and …educate her the abilities, the resilience, the arrogance to be the perfect person who she may be. There’s nobody higher, no group higher than the Lady Scouts, and I’m dwelling proof of that,” mentioned Parker.
At a time when nationwide funding for ladies’s and women’ organizations hovers at an all-time low of beneath 2% of whole philanthropic giving*, Lady Scouts stays dedicated to offering its award-winning management growth program to all women, no matter their monetary standing. In the present day, Lady Scouts are discovered in all places women are discovered, from personal colleges to Title 1 colleges, group facilities to homes of worship, and throughout all the financial spectrum.
“Greater than ever, women want our assist to assist develop their voices and pursue their goals,” mentioned Jai Ferrell, CEO of Lady Scouts of Higher Atlanta and former Atlanta Lady Scout. “When one woman is left behind, that’s one woman too many.”
*Girls’s Philanthropy Institute, Indiana College Lilly Household Faculty of Philanthropy and DataLake Nonprofit Analysis. (2024). Girls & Women Index. www.womenandgirlsindex.org
