Girls Opportunity Alliance

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About

The Girls Opportunity Alliance seeks to empower and educate adolescent girls around the world, allowing them to achieve their full potential and transform their families, communities, and countries.

Our goal is to connect leaders, strengthen the impact of grassroots organizations, and use public awareness to drive action in support of adolescent girls’ education and empowerment. The Alliance supports and welcomes organizations that serve adolescent girls of all gender expressions and identities.

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Barbara Mukisa, a Black girl with a dark skin tone, holds a candle as she smiles at the camera. She has low hair and is wearing a colorful patterned top. Girls in the background are slightly blurred.
  • Programs
  • Stories
From big sisters to reading mentors: Obama Foundation youth programs change lives
Meet two young changemakers of MBK Alliance and The Girls Opportunity Alliance.
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A group of young girls with a range of medium and dark skin tones hold up sheets of paper in a classroom. All girls are standing behind wooden desks.
  • Stories
  • Equality
Girls Opportunity Alliance provides $2.5M in support on International Day of the Girl
Learn how the Girls Opportunity Alliance is supporting 54 grassroots organizations from 28 countries to empower girls around the world.
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Brenda, a young Kenyan girl with a dark skin tone, wears a white Moving the Goalposts t-shirt and poses while holding a soccer ball.
  • Youth
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Building girls’ skills and confidence on and off the soccer field in Kenya
Watch how Moving the Goalposts is empowering girls through soccer with support from the Girls Opportunity Alliance.
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Erin Barnett helps a young Black girl in a leotard with her dance position as she holds onto the freestanding ballet barre.
  • Chicago
  • Community Engagement
Meet Erin, founder of Black Girls Dance in Chicago
Discover how dance empowers girls on stage, in leadership, and in life.
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