Emma Mayerson and Alliance for Girls Achieve Success

Alliance for Girls launched on May 30, 2012. A program of the Eva Leah Gunther Foundation, Alliance for Girls seeks to bring together girl-serving organizations in the Bay Area to promote the betterment of girls’ lives through access to resources, legislation, and effective grass roots organizing. Program Director Emma Mayerson has been with Alliance for Girls since the beginning, and over the past few months, has seen the organization grow in terms of member organizations and the number of girls reached.

Emma Mayerson has been working with community building organizations throughout the Bay Area for many years, and was an obvious choice for Program Director on the basis of her experience. Under Emma Mayerson’s guidance, the Alliance for Girls has started an extremely popular lunch series that provides networking, leadership, and learning opportunities for member organizations, as well as interested non-members. In addition, Emma Mayerson has created a detailed community calendar and listserv that keeps member organizations informed about events within the girl-serving world, as well as a web-based directory of services and member organizations.

Since Alliance for Girls launched in May, the organization has seen a huge increase in community interest. Beginning with just 6 member organizations, membership has grown to a full forty organizations, most of which devote at least 25% of their activities towards the betterment of girls’ lives. Emma Mayerson has done much of the outreach work that has secured the participation of these members.

Alliance for Girls was recently asked to present at the West Coast Children’s Center’s conference on human sex trafficking, and has recently partnered with local organizations ranging from health services groups to recreational centers. Emma Mayerson continues to develop new and exciting programming for the Alliance for Girls, and the organization has continued to grow in the months since its founding.