Women’s Organizations and Information

• Women's Foundation of Minnesota
• YWCA USA
• Women's Bureau Home Page
• 50 Ways to Improve Women's Lives
• Feminist Majority Foundation
• National Organization for Women
• Zonta International
• Womens' Center-MNSU

 

After School Organizations and Information

• Afterschool Alliance
• National After School Association
• Minnesota Commission on Out-of-School Time

Childcare Organizations and Information

• Welcome to Child Care Resource & Referral - Rochester, MN
• http://mnchildcare.org/index.html/cceireport.pdf
• A Report on Framing Childcare as Economic Development

• MN Childcare
  

Cultural Diversity

• Cultural Diversity and Early Education
• Greater Mankato Diversity Council
• Community Tool Box - Enhance Cultural Competence

Multicultural Resources

• Multicultural Resources for Children
• Multicultural Web Sites: Diversity and Ethnic Studies: Virtual Community
• Multicultural Resources
• Multicultural Literature Resources

 

Nonprofit Public Policy & Advocacy

• Nonprofit Policy News
• National  Council of Nonprofits

Parenting

• AboutOurKids.org - Home
• The National Parenting Center
• Search Institute Home
• Shoulder to Shoulder:  Raising Teens Together

 

Work Life Balance

• Women's Bureau Home Page
• Work & Family Connection, a Work-Life Clearinghouse 

 

Advocacy for girls & parents around media and commercialism

• Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood
• PBS Kids: Don't Buy It
• Common Sense Media
• Media Watch
• Alliance for Children
• Center for Media & Democracy

 

General Online Communities & resources for girls and their parents

• YWCA USA
• YWCA of Mankato
• Campaign for Real Beauty
• Adios Barbie: A Body Lovin' Site for Every Body
• Love Your Body
• Girls Inc.
• Project Girl
• Hardy Girls Healthy Women
• New Moon Girls
• Girl Scouts
• Dads & Daughters
• Dolls Like Me

Books

• Packaging Girlhood, Sharon Lamb & Lyn Mikel Brown
• The Body Project, Joan Jacobs Brumberg
• Can't Buy My Love, Jean Kilbourne
• Born to Buy, Juliet B. Schor
• Schoolgirls, Peggy Orenstein
• Dads and Daughters, Joe Kelly
• Between Parent & Child, Dr. Haim G. Ginott
• Praising Girls Well, Elizabeth Hartley
• The Price of Privilege, Madeline Levine, Ph.D.
• My Feeling Better Workbook, Sara Hamil, LCSW

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