Cool! We need more sk8rs.

Yay!!!! Vote for Nancy!!!

I voted, but I suspect that most people are not going to consider skateboard lessons more worthy than all those other endeavors. Good luck, though.

Vote for Nancy! She is doing amazing things with SLAG & around the region.

I voted for the lady who does stuff for Appalachian kids. It was between her and the Navajo shoe lady, no offense to our local worthy.

I would think the skaters with leadership skills would skate about the same as the skaters without leadership skills.

Yeah, kinda hard to motivate us to vote for female skateboarders when most of those cuases are far more worthy.

Thanks for the heads up. I voted shoes for Navajos...

Skateboarding is cool, but there are several more important issues represented there. I voted breasts!

thanks for actually posting my email tip. Brings me a flicker of faith that there are people at your work that read emails.

Hey all thanks for checking out the other ladies. I am all for you all to vote who you please, cause they are all great.

In terms of local investments and building future female leaders in the NW region, vote for Skate Like a Girl. It's like a local stimulus program that will provide economic opps for girls and women!

Thanks Johan for Slogging me!

FYI

Skate Like a Girl (SLAG) strives to build community coalitions with other groups and organizations that are working to challenge oppression through education and dialouge, with the hope of creating better communities for everyone. In the past SLAG has organized ladies only skate jams, week-long summer skate camps and other events. SLAG offers instructional clinics to female groups of all ages and all levels- from never-eva to forever-eva.

Skate Like a Girl is an unique organization locally and internationally providing an innovative approach to female empowerment and leadership on the individual level, promoting women's skateboarding on the community level and at the same time striving to produce a collective of women who strive for social justice. These ideas are captured best in our vision, mission, and values.

Vision
Empower young girls & women to grow into strong, confident leaders who promote and implement social equity.

Mission
Promote female skateboarding by fostering confidence in girls & women to skateboard and take leadership in their communities.

Core Values
We value experiential learning, civic participation and social justice.

I voted for Nancy! What a great program!

thank you for providing a contrast to nimby-ism: ME ME ME and my backyardism.

How can you think that girl/women empowerment and putting Seattle on an international stage is not important? Many of those women do great things, but fostering confidence in girls and promoting female leaders is an exceptional cause! Vote for Nancy! I did.

SLAG was one of the greatest summer adventures I have ever had.
Nancy is a great leader, and goes way further than any other woman I know to make youth feel empowered and wanted. She helps young girls believe in themselves and their abilities while helping bring down sex segregation in sports and beyond. Anyone can donate items, hold a fundraiser and deliver whatever to whoever, but it is all too uncommon for someone to happily donate their time.
I don't care if you value shoes, or blankets,
I'll take my self-esteem and skateboard, thank you.