Harrisburg University of Science and Technology | Transform Your Future
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology | Transform Your Future
Harrisburg University of Science and Technology | Transform Your Future
By Elisa Basnight Grateful and still inspired from my time spent last Thursday with volunteers and leaders from Girls Action Network (GAN) and The Links, Incorporated at the Cybersecurity Competition for middle and high school students hosted by Patriots Technology Training Center at Bowie State University. With only 16% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) … Read more
To make sure our GAN Modernization strategy is grounded in the reality of what the nextgen is looking for GAN conducted a national survey in 2024 focused on two key areas: Looking back do you wish you had more personalization and more technology as part of your career planning and exploration process in high school? GAN had a statistically significant sample size of 206, females, ages 18-29, income, $0-150,000. Overall, almost 80% responded more personalization and just slightly over 70% said more technology. Further, when asked Looking Back what kind of more personalized support in career planning and exploration activities does she want:
Introduction The recent Girls Who Build conference in Northwest Arkansas brought together remarkable young leaders, educators, professionals, and advocates dedicated to empowering the next generation of women in construction and building trades. Among the attendees were individuals who shared their inspiring journeys, highlighted the importance of imagination, vulnerability, and seizing opportunities in traditionally male-dominated industries. … Read more
Cambridge, Massachusetts. Yanina Budkin, a World Bank economist and & Roza Eftekhari, a renowned journalist, both of whom are 2007 Harvard Kennedy School of Government Mason Fellows, chose Girls Action Network, Inc. (GAN) as the focus of their best practice study on performance measurement as part of their class, The Strategic Management of Non Profits Organizations, which is taught by Professor Chris Stone. The purpose of the benchmark study is to provide GAN guidance in its efforts to understand how to implement performance measurement in the organization in order to drive growth in an orderly manner. The benchmarking study, which was completed in May 2007, provides a view of the state of performance measurement in six (6) diverse US and non-US nonprofit organizations: (1) Citizen Schools; (2) Girl Scouts of the United States of America; (3) Africare; (4) Women’s Bean Project; (5) The Way of the Heart: The Promotora Institute (WHPI); and (6) GEMS. In the end, the report concludes that for a new organization like GAN, the challenge is to implement, early on strong performance measurement, in order to drive growth in a proactive way.
