Black Lives Matter
BLACK LIVES MATTER. OUR CONFIRMATION TO THE YOUNG WOMEN WE SERVE.
For ten years, Project Glimmer has worked to bring resources, inspiration and empowerment to a community of young women in whom we believe passionately - teen girls and young women who have experienced poverty, homelessness, child abuse, and neglect.
Most of our girls and young women also suffer regularly from racism. The majority of the girls and young women we serve, now in all 50 states, are of color. Hate, harassment, and bias, conscious and unconscious, based on the color of their skin are part of their experience in America.
At Project Glimmer, we believe in and devote ourselves to these girls and young women because we believe they are the future of our country. We fight for individual confidence, equality, and empowerment. It is invaluable for her to hear from women of all races and all economic classes - “We believe in you.”
Project Glimmer remains committed to helping end racism in America. Let us make the values implicit in our first decade of work crystal clear:
Project Glimmer is outraged by the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and every other known and unknown person.
Project Glimmer stands with the Black community and in solidarity with the civil rights movement seeking racial justice. We want the systemic oppression and murder of Black people in America to end.
Project Glimmer condemns racism and hate, and we celebrate diversity and equality.
“Societies do not work unless everyone participates, there can be no justice—not racial, social nor gender—without all of us coming together to create lasting change.”
— SONJA HOEL PERKINS, FOUNDER, PROJECT GLIMMER
With conviction, commitment and compassion,
Sonja Hoel Perkins, Founder, Project Glimmer, Broadway Angels & The Perkins Fund
Chrissy Shea, CEO, Project Glimmer
Lisa Podos, Board Chair, Project Glimmer & Principal, Arts Impact Consulting
Jeanette Calandra, Vice-Chair, Project Glimmer & Managing Partner, PwC Silicon Valley
Kellie Abreu, Deputy Chief Banking Officer, Regional Managing Director, First Republic Bank
Ashley Berman, Owner & Designer, Ashley Morgan Designs
Jenni Bingham, Deputy Director, Project Glimmer
Jesse Draper, General Partner, Halogen Ventures
Christina Giguere, President, Inner Spark Foundation
Valerie Garcia Houts, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch
Chelsea E. Ialeggio, Sales Manager, Vanguard Properties
Christina Kramlich, Financial Advisor, Chicory Wealth
Laura Kreitler, Start-up Executive & former VP, Zenefits
Margaret Laws, President & CEO, HopeLab
Phuong Phillips, Chief Legal Officer, Zynga
Catherine Porter, Head of Business Development, Calibra
Christena Reinhard, Retail Industry Ambassador, Pegasystems
Renee Richardson, Associate Director, Metallica's All Within My Hands Foundation
Stefanie Rodriguez, Program Manager, Project Glimmer
Meaghan Rose, Founder & CEO, Rocksbox
Marissa Shipman, CEO, theBalm
Susanne Somerville, CEO, Chronicled
Lisa Stone, Managing Director, WestRiver Group
Angela Ty, Partner, KPMG
Laney Whitcanack, CEO, Coro Northern California
Project Glimmer is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring every girl to envision and realize an empowered future. Project Glimmer has served over half a million teenage girls and women in all 50 states through 1,000+ organizations including foster care, homeless, low-income and youth services. Through our Gift+Goods, Day of Empowerment and Community Building programs, we are committed to helping end gender and racial inequality.
