She's the First
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She's the First is a non-profit organization
based in New York
. It was launched on 1 November 2009 under the leadership of Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt. The organization seeks to empower girls in Asia
, Africa
, and Latin America
by facilitating the sponsorship of their education through creative and innovative means.
In its first year of existence, She's the First sponsored around thirty girls' education in the developing world.
. Tibbetts shared her vision for She's the First with Brandt and they teamed up. The organization launched in the fall of Brandt's junior year at Syracuse University
in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
, Manhattan College
, Northern University of Iowa, University of Notre Dame, Marist College, Penn State University, University of Pittsburgh, Saint Joseph's University, and Hofstra University
.
The campaign connects these college women with the girls and schools in need of sponsorship. The Syracuse University chapter is the alma mater of one of the founders of the organization, Christen Brandt. It was the first branch created and served as the pilot program for other schools. All chapters have their own own social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter pages. Anyone who wants to can request to create a chapter at their school through the [She's the First] website.
It has partnered with AfricAid
on their Kisa Project to raise funds which will put girls in Tanzania
into secondary school, and the Shanti Bhavan
's Children Project in India
. It has also worked with Story Scarves, a goodwill movement which teaches girls who grow up in apartheid Africa
tolerance and respect.
She's the First works with nine different partners that a donor can contribute to.
on its 20th Annual Women of the Year Awards at the Carnegie Hall
citing its founder, Tammy Tibbetts, as one of Glamour's 20 Young Women who are Already Changing the World.
The Syracuse University
chapter also won the 2011 Macy’s Rising Star Award “The 44 Stars of Excellence Gala & Celebration,” sponsored by Macy’s and Bloomingdales, on April 19, 2011.
blog, Twitter
and Facebook
.
As of October 27, 2011, at 10:22 p.m., She's the First
has over 3,800 "likes" on Facebook
and over 4,000 followers on Twitter
.
The organization has also gained a lot of attention from blog posts and tweets from the Huffington Post. Creator and Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington
profiled She's the First
for Women's History Month
in March of 2011. Huffington also tweeted the story to her 600,000+ followers. The Huffington Post featured on the homepage of their Impact section an essay by Elizabeth David, a young woman sponsored She's the First
in Tanzania. She was featured as the Huffington Post's "Greatest Person of the Day."
, Lenka
, Shontelle
, DJ Kalkutta, and musician-songwriter Gavin DeGraw
, She's The First's first celebrity male supporter.
It has also launched their fundraising bracelet designed by Asha Patel and modeled by pop singer JoJo.
On May 4th, 2010, Perez Hilton
featured She's the First
on his "A Worthwhile Cause" section. He posted a She's the First
promotional video, a quote from it about the organization and a link to the website.
Non-profit organization
Nonprofit organization is neither a legal nor technical definition but generally refers to an organization that uses surplus revenues to achieve its goals, rather than distributing them as profit or dividends...
based in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. It was launched on 1 November 2009 under the leadership of Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt. The organization seeks to empower girls in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
, and Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...
by facilitating the sponsorship of their education through creative and innovative means.
In its first year of existence, She's the First sponsored around thirty girls' education in the developing world.
History
She's the First was launched November 1st 2009. The founders, Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt, met at a New York Women in Communications awards ceremony called The Matrix AwardsThe Matrix Awards
The Matrix Awards is an annual awards ceremony started in 1970 to honor exceptional women in the media in the fields of arts, advertising, entertainment, film, television, theater, books, broadcasting, magazines, newspapers, public relations and new media....
. Tibbetts shared her vision for She's the First with Brandt and they teamed up. The organization launched in the fall of Brandt's junior year at Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.
College Chapters
She's the First has established college chapters at Syracuse UniversitySyracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
, Manhattan College
Manhattan College
Manhattan College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college in the Lasallian tradition in New York City, United States. Despite the college's name, it is no longer located in Manhattan but in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, roughly 10 miles north of Midtown. Manhattan College offers...
, Northern University of Iowa, University of Notre Dame, Marist College, Penn State University, University of Pittsburgh, Saint Joseph's University, and Hofstra University
Hofstra University
Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian institution of higher learning located in the Village of Hempstead, New York, United States, about east of New York City: less than an hour away by train or car...
.
The campaign connects these college women with the girls and schools in need of sponsorship. The Syracuse University chapter is the alma mater of one of the founders of the organization, Christen Brandt. It was the first branch created and served as the pilot program for other schools. All chapters have their own own social networking sites including Facebook and Twitter pages. Anyone who wants to can request to create a chapter at their school through the [She's the First] website.
Mission
She’s the First is a not-for-profit that sponsors girls’ education in the developing world, helping them be the first in their families to graduate. In the process, She’s the First fosters leadership and self-awareness in young Americans, by inspiring them to lead creative fundraisers and correspond with sponsored students. Our efforts shape a rising generation of well-educated global leaders, future philanthropists, and cross-cultural communicators.Partners and programs
She's the First hosts an online directory of NGOs with sponsorship programs which they have vetted and stay in year-round contact with to track the girls' progress. They connect donors with these programs to arrange the sponsorship.It has partnered with AfricAid
AfricAid
AfricAid is a 501 nonprofit organization that supports girls’ education in Africa in order to provide young women with the opportunity to transform their own lives and the futures of their communities...
on their Kisa Project to raise funds which will put girls in Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
into secondary school, and the Shanti Bhavan
Shanti Bhavan
The Shanti Bhavan Children's Project is a U.S. 501 and India 80-G non-profit organization based in Bangalore, India, that operates a K-12 residential school in Baliganapalli, Tamil Nadu...
's Children Project in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. It has also worked with Story Scarves, a goodwill movement which teaches girls who grow up in apartheid Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
tolerance and respect.
She's the First works with nine different partners that a donor can contribute to.
She's the First Partner Directory
- AfricAidAfricAidAfricAid is a 501 nonprofit organization that supports girls’ education in Africa in order to provide young women with the opportunity to transform their own lives and the futures of their communities...
’s Kisa Project - Shanti BhavanShanti BhavanThe Shanti Bhavan Children's Project is a U.S. 501 and India 80-G non-profit organization based in Bangalore, India, that operates a K-12 residential school in Baliganapalli, Tamil Nadu...
Children’s Project - Selamta Family ProjectSelamta Family ProjectThe Selamta Family Project is an all-volunteer, 501 non-profit organization providing secure homes, medical intervention and education opportunities to orphaned and abandoned children....
- Arlington Academy of HopeArlington Academy of HopeArlington Academy of Hope is a nonprofit 501 organization based in Arlington, Virginia, in the United States. The organization seeks to help children in Uganda by providing access to education within their village communities...
- Kopila Valley Children’s School
- KiberaKiberaKibera is a division of Nairobi Area, Kenya, and neighbourhood of the city of Nairobi, located from the city centre. Kibera is the largest slum in Nairobi, and the second largest urban slum in Africa...
School for Girls (run by Shining Hope for Communities) - Starfish One by One
- Project Education SudanSudanSudan , officially the Republic of the Sudan , is a country in North Africa, sometimes considered part of the Middle East politically. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, South Sudan to the south, the Central African Republic to the...
- Village Schools International
Recognition
In 2010, the organization was recognized by GlamourGlamour (magazine)
Glamour is a women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. Founded in 1939 in the United States, it was originally called Glamour of Hollywood....
on its 20th Annual Women of the Year Awards at the Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
citing its founder, Tammy Tibbetts, as one of Glamour's 20 Young Women who are Already Changing the World.
The Syracuse University
Syracuse University
Syracuse University is a private research university located in Syracuse, New York, United States. Its roots can be traced back to Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1832, which also later founded Genesee College...
chapter also won the 2011 Macy’s Rising Star Award “The 44 Stars of Excellence Gala & Celebration,” sponsored by Macy’s and Bloomingdales, on April 19, 2011.
New Media Usage
She's the First operates as a New Media Campaign and the founder of the organization said that digital media is the perfect way to make a cause viral. They continue to garner interest and education through the organization's TumblrTumblr
Tumblr is a website and microblogging platform that allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to their tumblelog, a short-form blog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. The service emphasizes ease of use. The site ranks as the 10th...
blog, Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
and Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
.
As of October 27, 2011, at 10:22 p.m., She's the First
She's the First
She's the First is a non-profit organization based in New York. It was launched on 1 November 2009 under the leadership of Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt...
has over 3,800 "likes" on Facebook
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service and website launched in February 2004, operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. , Facebook has more than 800 million active users. Users must register before using the site, after which they may create a personal profile, add other users as...
and over 4,000 followers on Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...
.
The organization has also gained a lot of attention from blog posts and tweets from the Huffington Post. Creator and Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington
Arianna Huffington is a Greek American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known as co-founder of the news website The Huffington Post. A popular conservative commentator in the mid-1990s, she adopted more liberal political beliefs in the late 1990s...
profiled She's the First
She's the First
She's the First is a non-profit organization based in New York. It was launched on 1 November 2009 under the leadership of Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt...
for Women's History Month
Women's History Month
Women's History Month is an annual declared month worldwide that highlights contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. March has been set aside as this month in the United Kingdom and in the United States...
in March of 2011. Huffington also tweeted the story to her 600,000+ followers. The Huffington Post featured on the homepage of their Impact section an essay by Elizabeth David, a young woman sponsored She's the First
She's the First
She's the First is a non-profit organization based in New York. It was launched on 1 November 2009 under the leadership of Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt...
in Tanzania. She was featured as the Huffington Post's "Greatest Person of the Day."
Celebrity involvement
In June 2010, She's the First launched their Girls Who Rock benefit concert in New York with the help of celebrities such as Kat DeLunaKat DeLuna
Kathleen Emperatriz "Kat" DeLuna is an American pop singer of Dominican heritage. DeLuna has a soprano vocal range. Her debut single, "Whine Up", reached the top ten in Belgium and France, peaked inside the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Her...
, Lenka
Lenka
Lenka is a village and municipality in the Rimavská Sobota District of the Banská Bystrica Region of southern Slovakia.- Demographics :As of 2001, Lenka had 202 inhabitants of whom 129 were Hungarians and 72 Slovakians.-External links:...
, Shontelle
Shontelle
Shontelle Layne , known professionally as Shontelle, is a Barbadian singer, and songwriter. She released her debut album Shontelligence in November 2008. Her sophomore album, No Gravity, was released in September 2010...
, DJ Kalkutta, and musician-songwriter Gavin DeGraw
Gavin DeGraw
Gavin Shane DeGraw is an American musician and singer-songwriter. He is known for his songs "Chariot", "Follow Through", "I Don't Want to Be" , "In Love with a Girl", and "Not Over You".-Early life:DeGraw grew up in the Catskills in South Fallsburg,...
, She's The First's first celebrity male supporter.
It has also launched their fundraising bracelet designed by Asha Patel and modeled by pop singer JoJo.
On May 4th, 2010, Perez Hilton
Perez Hilton
Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr. , better known as Perez Hilton , is an American blogger and television personality. His blog, Perezhilton.com , is known for posts covering gossip items about celebrities...
featured She's the First
She's the First
She's the First is a non-profit organization based in New York. It was launched on 1 November 2009 under the leadership of Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt...
on his "A Worthwhile Cause" section. He posted a She's the First
She's the First
She's the First is a non-profit organization based in New York. It was launched on 1 November 2009 under the leadership of Tammy Tibbetts and Christen Brandt...
promotional video, a quote from it about the organization and a link to the website.