GLOBAL GIRL MEDIA's Fundraiser:

GlobalGirl Media Chicago challenges you to become part of our Super Hero squad by supporting our Crowdrise fundraiser. Our Super Teenage Women Reporters in Chicago are in need of some essential equipment, some microphones and cameras, to continue saving the world one story at a time!

Global Girl Media is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering high school age girls from under-served communities around the world through media, leadership and journalistic training to have a voice in the global media universe and their own futures.

The organization grew out of a coalition of women broadcasters and journalists from around the world who recognized that much mainstream reporting focuses on flash points of violence, celebrity or disaster, while the everyday experience and voice of the invisible majority, particularly young women, passes silently under the radar. With the explosion of social media networking and user-generated content on the web, the fact remains that this media is only open to those who have access to these technologies, leaving many youth, especially young girls in at-risk or impoverished communities, falling hard into the digital divide.

GlobalGirl Media seeks to address this disparity by supplying the equipment, education and support necessary to help young women become digital and blog journalists, bringing their own unique perspective on their lives, their communities and world events to the global web and social media community.