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#LeadSTF: Lunchtime, Thanks to Qdoba!
Lunch break at the She's the First Leadership Summit, Jan. 15th in NYC
When an all-volunteer team spends their Saturday, 10am-5pm, working hard for a world-changing cause, of course their President wants to treat them to a free lunch! But without an operating budget (which we are separately fundraising for among companies and grants right now — 100% of what you give supports girls’ education), that could be costly. So, we include this post in our week-long recap of Saturday’s Leadership Summit to say, THANK YOU, QDOBA MANHATTAN, for donating lunch! We won’t name any names, but @shesthefirst tweeted a few take-out places in NYC, and no one responded nicer than @QdobaMexGrill.
Qdoba’s donation is a reminder of how even if you don’t have money to donate to a cause, think about what services or products you might have to make in-kind donations. This taco spread for 20 surely fueled us up for an afternoon of workshopping our fundraising ideas, which will send several girls to school in the course of the next year. Never underestimate the power of non-monetary donations to a cause!
Speaking of acts of kindness, we had some leftover tacos at the end of the day. Some of our volunteers — Hannah Brencher, Stephanie Rushford, Cynthia Hellen, Kat Sytnyk, Carla Blumenthal, in particular — packed them up into two tins and handed them out to street vendors working in the cold outside of Chelsea Market. Pay it forward! 
Thank You!
We feel a little bit like Kathryn Bigelow accepting her Oscar as the first female to win Best Director…we have sooo many people to thank for making GIRLS WHO ROCK a hit! We hope we haven’t left anyone out, but please, add some extra shout-outs of thanks in the comments!
THANK YOU TO OUR…..
Thank you to the media supporters of GIRLS WHO ROCK!
Thank you to the raffle donors and pro bono services behind GIRLS WHO ROCK!
To SANTOS PARTY HOUSE!
To the illustrious GIRLS WHO ROCK TEAM who volunteered their time, in no particular order: Liz, Bridget, Stacy, Veronica, Kaitlin, Justin, Demitri, Holly, Ayana, Shevonne, Sarah, Kate, Emily, Chris V, Maria, Mary, Gina, Annie, Stephanie, Rob, Manny, Herrard, Wendy, Joel. Most of all, to our fearless leader and GIRLS WHO ROCK visionary, Cynthia Hellen.
To the SHE’S THE FIRST LEADERSHIP TEAM
— we couldn’t have even dreamed this was possible when we launched Nov. 1, 2009!
To AfricAid Founder Ashley Shuyler and Emcee Chris Bashinelli
To the GIRLS WHO ROCK themselves! Kat DeLuna, Lenka, Shontelle, MoZella, Kelli Pyle, Vita Chambers, and Cara Salimando, and their staffs. And DJ Kalkutta!
To our friends/role models in the NON-PROFIT WORLD who supported our debut benefit! Guests from charity : water, The Blind Project, the One Percent Foundation, Anthony David Adams, DoSomething.org, the UN, and others!
This is only the beginning…now we get to know Elizabeth David and a classmate of hers and mentor them along in their studies through the digital storytelling of the Kisa Project!
First GIRLS WHO ROCK Benefit Concert for She's the First a Hit!
Kat DeLuna and Shontelle
GIRLS WHO ROCK, a benefit concert for She’s the First, with profits supporting AfricAid, was a smash success during Thursday night’s Internet Week New York festivities! Seven recording artists—Kat DeLuna, Lenka, Shontelle, MoZella, Kelli Pyle, Vita Chambers, and Cara Salimando—with DJ Kalkattua and host Chris Bashinelli, Executive Director of the “Bridge the Gap” web documentary series, entertained a crowd of 400 at Santos Party House in downtown Manhattan. In addition to the music, the program featured a special video shout out from Platinum-recording artist Gavin DeGraw, Livestreaming, Live Tweets, remarks by AfricAid founder Ashley Shuyler, a special birthday presentation to Vita Chambers, and a fundraising raffle.
Lenka
The event profits sponsored four one-year high school scholarships, which will be given to two Tanzanian girls to carry them through a full two-year leadership program taught by AfricAid, which is one of the many programs that She’s the First supports worldwide by encouraging fun, affordable grassroots fundraising among young women and men. AfricAid was chosen as the beneficiary because the organization recently piloted The Kisa Project, an initiative that enrolls girls in leadership training and digital storytelling workshops, where they learn to share their lives with sponsors through rich, vivid videos.
Online donations to She’s the First sponsorships for AfricAid can still be made at giveforward.org/girlswhorockny. The girls sponsored through GIRLS WHO ROCK will be communicating to all of their co-sponsors here on the She’s the First blog throughout the year.
Special thanks to all our sponsors listed on girlswhorockny.com. We will rock out again in 2011!
More photos!