FIFTH ANNUAL GIRLS WRITE NOW AWARDS HONORING LEADERS WHO WRITE THE WORLD TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2017 | CITY WINERY HONOREES “RISE SPEAK CHANGE” AWARD WILL BE PRESENTED TO ZADIE SMITH AUTHOR, SWING TIME, ON BEAUTY & WHITE TEETH SOPHIA AMORUSO ILANA GLAZER AUTHOR & FOUNDER, GIRLBOSS CO-CREATOR & CO-STAR, BROAD CITY MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY ABBI JACOBSON EDITOR-AT-LARGE, ELLE.COM & MAYA ANGELOU CO-CREATOR & CO-STAR , BROAD CITY PRESIDENTIAL CHAIR , WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY EMCEE: ELAINE WELTEROTH EDITOR, TEEN VOGUE MISSION Girls Write Now mentors underserved young women to find their voices through the power of writing and community. 2017 GIRLS WRITE NOW AWARDS: RISE SPEAK CHANGE This year’s Awards takes on special significance as the award-winning organization implements an ambitious three-year strategic growth plan to expand programs to serve twice as many girls, and to extend and enrich our alumnae and college prep services. Now more than ever, we need to celebrate the importance of a girl’s voice and this year our theme is “Rise Speak Change.” Every year, the girls we mentor join a supportive community where they discover their voices and the passion to share their stories. The 2017 Girls Write Now Awards champions the leaders who are paving the way for the next generation of young women writers. Today’s brave, new voices are igniting change and evolving the narrative. WHO HAS ALIGNED WITH GIRLS WRITE NOW? Gloria Steinem, Lena Dunham, Diane von Furstenberg, Tavi Gevinson, Roxane Gay, Mara Wilson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Janet Mock, Jenni Konner, John Osborn, Tanwi Nandini Islam, Mia Alvar, Angela Flournoy, Naomi Jackson, Juju Chang, Dawn Davis, Gayle Forman, Marcia Anne Gillespie, Anne Hathaway, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Roberta Kaplan, Christina Baker Kline, Pamela Paul, Mariane Pearl, Emily St. John Mandel, Tanzina Vega, Tiphanie Yanique, Hala Alyan, Emma Cline, Emma Straub, and Karina Glaser. ACHIEVEMENTS For nearly 20 years, Girls Write Now has been New York’s first and only writing and mentoring organization for girls, and one of the nation’s top after school programs, distinguished twice by the White House and the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, and this fall received The White House Champions of Change Award. Girls Write Now has been honored twice by the Nonprofit Excellence Awards as one of New York City’s top ten nonprofits, and twice by the New York City Council as one of the city’s top girl only intiatives. Our girls — 93% high need and 94% girls of color — have performed at Lincoln Center and the United Nations, published original work in Newsweek, Elle, AOL/Huffington Post, Chime for Change and our award-winning anthology, and earned hundreds of Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, while 100% of our seniors went on to college. “Girls Write Now is not simply ‘a program for girls,’ but a community of leaders who better the world. We write so we can listen, so we may become more human.” —THASFIA CHOWDHURY, MENTEE “Girls Write Now, you are filling the heart, the mind, the body. And truly, it’s a revolutionary act.” —GLORIA STEINEM, FEMINIST, ACTIVIST & AUTHOR CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP VISIONARY — $25,000 As we honor the leaders who inspire us at the Fifth Annual Girls Write Now Awards, 10 tickets to Girls Write Now Awards we seek institutional partners to support our work and our girls. Write yourself into Full page advertisement in program the Girls Write Now story in a meaningful way by sponsoring this event that will Gift bag product placement impact our growing, intergenerational community for years to come. Through Photo with honorees corporate sponsorships, Girls Write Now matches a community of readers and Includes benefits below Invitation for 6 to onsite Host pre-reception writers with industries that have the power to give them a voice. Current and past sponsors include: INNOVATOR — $15,000 • ABC News • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 8 tickets to Girls Write Now Awards • Baird Foundation • Mattel Half page advertisement in program VIP seating • BBH Global • News Corp Verbal recognition by emcee at event • BBDO • Open Road Integrated Media Signage at reception • Blackstone Charitable Foundation • Open Society Foundations Includes benefits below • Bustle • Outbrain Invitation for 4 to onsite Host pre-reception • The Diller - Von Furstenberg • Palisade Capital Management Family Foundation • PIMCO Foundation CHAMPION — $10,000 • EILEEN FISHER • SheKnows 6 tickets to Girls Write Now Awards • Find Your Light • She Writes Press Half page advertisement in program • Fletcher & Company • SJL Attorney Search Logo on invitation (if secured by print deadline) • Fusion • Storch Amini & Munves PC Includes benefits below Invitation for 2 to onsite Host pre-reception • The Harnisch Foundation • StoryBundle • HBO • Writers House CREATOR — $5,000 4 tickets to Girls Write Now Awards REACH Name recognition in marketing & press materials • Twitter: 15,400+ followers Includes benefits below • Facebook : 21,000+ likes SUPPORTER — $2,500 • Aggregate Reach: 200,000+ per month 2 tickets to Girls Write Now Awards • Website: 6,000+ unique visitors a month—65% are new, and a majority are Pre and post event mention on social media located in New York City Logo and listing in program • 300+ attendees at Girls Write Now Awards Listing on website • 1,000+ in person at our annual CHAPTERS Reading Series ADVERTISEMENT IN AWARDS PROGRAM A powerful network of women writers that includes professionals at Google, MTV, Back cover: $1,000 Inside back cover: $750 Associated Press, Fortune, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Self, The Wall Inside front cover: $750 Street Journal, Reuters, People, SheKnows, Time, Elle, Daily Beast/Newsweek, Full page: $500 Wattpad, NBC Entertainment, CBS Radio, Goldman Sachs, Nickelodeon, MacMil- Half page: $300 lan, Mashable, A&E, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Penguin Random House, and Quarter page: $225 Harper Collins. Advertisements will be printed in color in the event program. CONTACT For questions about the 2017 Girls Write Now Awards, contact Emily Wurgaft at [email protected] or 212-336-9330 Ext 919. www.girlswritenow.org @girlswritenow.