A United Way presentation about what it takes to help girls succeed in school and life.

1. Think of all the things we want to change… Women

2. The Glass Ceiling

3. Generational poverty

4. The Gap Achievement Gender Income

5. Teen pregnancy drinking drop-outs

6. There were a way to change it all? What if…

7. There is. Be a mentor.

8. It works like this: A Girl Gets a Mentor

9. A girl gets someone: to talk to to show her there’s life outside her neighborhood to show her there’s life after high school. to give her advice

10. A girl gets someone to tell her she can do ANYTHING

11. And you get to change the world, One girl at a time.

12. Because when you reach out to a girl … in Boston, in Cambridge , in Chelsea , in Quincy , in Salem, in Newton, in Somerville, in Weston, in Arlington, in Weymouth, in Lynn, in Malden, in Watertown, in Jamaica Plain, in Reading, in Brookline, in Scituate, in Waltham, in Natick, in Danvers, in Needham, in Dedham

14. THAT’S WHAT IT MEANS TO LIVE UNITED