Community convenings are an opportunity to explore the bigger picture, while centering the girls’ voices, to find ways to make this vision of a fully supported girl a reality. Through centering youth we are listening to them first. Our conversations will build on understanding what is needed from their perspective.

As a community-centered organization, Girls Inc believes your voice matters. We know that youth engage with many individuals, communities, and organizations that intersect. This is an opportunity to learn from and engage with a small group of trusted community partners, including you. Your informed and thoughtful responses are an opportunity for us to learn from the Girls Inc Ecosystem while giving us additional insight into the larger potential and impact of Girls Inc.

This year, Girls Inc began a Strategic Planning Process that will be informed through a series of Community Convenings facilitated by Prospera Partners. We believe in the impact and community benefit that emerges from cultivating communities where New Mexican girls are fully supported, embodying the Girls Inc belief to enable girls to be strong, smart, and bold, and achieve their full potential.

We want to see and hear from you! The dates of each community convenings are:

April 19 – 5:30 – 7:30 pm: RSVP HERE
May 3 – 4:00 – 6:00 pm
June 8 – 4:00 – 6:00 pm
June 28 – 4:00 – 6:00 pm

About Prospera Partners:
Vicki Pozzebon, Host Facilitator. Vicki is the principal consultant and founder of Prospera Partners, a small but mighty consulting firm that works with localists, small business owners, social entrepreneurs, and nonprofits on thoughtful business planning, systems change, transformational leadership, and more. She is people-centered and passionate about teaching, guiding, and facilitating clients through strategies to do better by doing good – for themselves, their business, and their communities.

At Prospera Partners Vicki designs and facilitates retreats, workshops, and communities of practice that will inspire community leaders and social entrepreneurs for transformational action. She also works with small business owners and social entrepreneurs to grow programs and businesses with thoughtful, step-by-step localism strategies for success that include marketing, press, and business planning. Her Master of Arts in Theatre Directing, training in the Art of Hosting and World Café methods of facilitation, and early days as a theatrical director, playwright, and an activist performer help Vicki bring humor, heart, and actionable tasks to anything she designs or leads.

Eileen Everett, Associate Facilitator. Eileen Everett, is a wildlife biologist turned outdoor educator having had the honor of teaching over 25,000 New Mexican students across the state. She has worked as an environmental educator for Audubon New Mexico and the Santa Fe Watershed Association, has run her own consulting firm, Down to Earth Education, and has served as a Climate Change Educator for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. In early 2016, Eileen stepped into the role of Executive Director of the Environmental Education of New Mexico and has facilitated the organization’s transition to becoming community-centered, focused on impact and systems change, resulting in the country’s first community-generated statewide vision and strategy to support daily equitable access to the outdoors and environmental learning for all kids (https://eenm.org/every-kid-every-day-every-way/). Eileen’s facilitation is rooted in embodied social justice and she values an abundance mindset and deepening connections to ourselves, each other, and the land.