Girl's Best Friend Foundation

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Girl's Best Friend Foundation

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Out of School/ Summer	Mentoring	Tutoring	Counseling/ Therapy	School-based	Clinic/ Provider-based	Service/ Vocational learning	Parent or family component	Other
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Educational/ Cognitive	Social/ Emotional	Life Skills	Physical Health	Behavior Problems	Reproductive	Citizenship	Mental Health
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Contact information:
900 North Franklin
Suite 210
Chicago, IL 60610

Website: girlsbestfriend.org/

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Mission/Goals: To promote and protect the human rights of girls in Illinois by advancing and sustaining policies and programs that ensure girls' self-determination, power, and well-being. Support those who challenge the status quo by offering alternatives to the societal messages that girls receive.

Source(s): www.guidestar.com; www.girlsbestfriend.org

Helps fund 110 organizations

Ages 8-21

Type of Evaluation: Non-experimental.

Summary of Available Evaluation Information: The Girl's Best Friend Foundation is listed here for its work supporting the evaluation of local programs in Chicago. GBF provides all of their grantees with training and funding to evaluate their own programs. Evaluations are non-experimental, and usually consist of monitoring outcomes. They emphasize primarily qualitative assessments that include surveys and questionnaires, video and community mapping of resources and assets as well as program participation, social change, and ethnography in local communities.

"Since its creation in 1994, Girl's Best Friend has channeled over $3 million to more than 100 Illinois organizations that provide positive programs that build on girls' strengths, empower them to make decisions for themselves, and give them a safe space to grow. GBF provides an additional 10 percent in grant monies over the awarded grant amount; this extra funding is earmarked for evaluation. GBF then offers every grantee workshops on evaluation methods."

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