Zion's Girls
Providing young girls tutoring, teaching the importance of volunteering, coaching on life and enrichment skills and training on entrepreneurial planning
Q1: What are your ideas about other things that we can do to help the young women/ 
Idea Description
ZIONS GIRLS was started in 2005. I got the idea when my daughter had a birthday party. I looked around the room at her party and saw young girls with different nationalities. I said, “wow wouldn't it be wonderful if they could teach each other and learn to grow together to be wonderful women of society?”
Zion’s Girls is a non-profit organization for young women from the ages 14-17, providing tutoring, teaching the importance of volunteering, coaching on life and enrichment skills and training on entrepreneurial planning. We are currently in the Maryland and Delaware area.
We had a couple of meetings and the parents were just excited about the organization. We received wonderful comments
What will you do if you win $10,000 for this idea?
The money will help with a location, mareketing material to expand in the delaware and maryland area, a van for transportation and materials
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Post a commentI like your idea; I want to improve your odds of getting funding I will vote for your idea if you will vote for mine. My idea is for a web site that raises money for inventors and entrepreneurs called New Idea website Check out my idea blob submission and visit New Idea Website and see what I can do for you. http://www.ideablob.com/ideas/4060-NEW-IDEA-WEBSITE The need for jobs is one of the biggest problems that a democratic government faces because creating jobs is an unwanted byproduct of business and industry. The reason I say its unwanted is the more jobs a business creates the more its expenses are and the smaller it’s bottom-line. If business and industry have their way they would run their companies with no jobs at all no management or labor. To deal with this dilemma I pr…moreopose a federal venture capital carrot fund that literally pays entrepreneurs to create jobs. The investment bank would be expected invest in seed level startup projects like yours and to lose money at a specified dollar per jobs ratio for example during hard times that figure may be as high as $20,000 per job and good times the figure may be as low as five dollars per job, by controlling this ratio the fed could roughly control unemployment. The bank will be expected to fund novel products and services and stay away from things like restaurants that will simply draw jobs from other restaurants or moving factories from one part of the country to another. If you like this idea vote for it and send the congressional letter from the website. Sincerely Frank Scruggs
Yeah, it really sounds lika a wonderful idea. Thats something you can expand and also include boys, or young people up to a certain age. I hope your business will be successful!
Great!!!!
Bless you for your insight and compassion! I've been trying to get a self esteem group going here in Maine and it's so frustrating that many school officials just don't see the need. Women have such poor role models now in our MTV society, it's wonderful to see such a positive force in you Deb! Nancy Tozier
I think this is a great idea. If you launch and ever think of expanding, i would love to help you go national. fantastic job!!!
Allerlierauh thank you for your comments. I would like to clarify the diversity in the girls group, it promotes awareness of culture. They will have an opportunity to share. The girls group is open to any young lady that is between the ages of 14-17. It is advertised in Maryland and it will be advertised in Delaware public, private charter and homeschool girls. I want the young ladies to have a opportunity to be a part without restrictions. I have worked with young people for over 20 years volunteering, mentoring, educating and trying to be an advocate promote an environment of striving for excellence in life. I thank you again you for your comments. Please if you have any other thoughts you can also email me at forwardmotivating@yahoo.com
great idea
Kudos to you! This is wonderful. I was a "big sister" in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program to an at-risk girl for 7 years (until she turned 18), and it was one of the most life-changing experiences in my life. The power we have to change these girl's lives for the better is profound. Do you have a website? I'd love to learn more about Zion's Girls! Best of luck. Cindy
This might be a bizarre question, but I'm going to ask it anyways. You discussed people of different nationalities in the beginning of your idea-but you never elaborated. I just fail to see how a girls group meeting gels, exactly, with this concept of encouraging diversity. I just thought it was odd you mentioned their differing ethnicities, but didn't go on to state that a major goal was encouraging diversity and teaching the girls the importance of spreading the message of tolerance. If you are focused on diversity, I think you should advertise to both public and private schools in the area, to bring in children of different races and different economic levels. Without this step (of attracting new girls) I fail to see how this is anything but a club for your daughter and her friends…more (I didn't see anything about encouraging other children to join!)
You all are so wonderfully supportive thank you for your support
I LOVE the name! I speaks purpose and empowerment. Good luck.
Deb, I'm so glad to see you went ahead and posted your program here! Good luck with the voting. Elizabeth
There is such a tremdous need for this program, God speed in getting this program in action.
Sounds like a terrific idea. I've never been a 14-17 year old girl but if I was I would love to take part in your program. Hopefully you gain a lot of support so that you can enrich many lives. Keep up the good work!