GlamourGals' local mission is to foster intergenerational relationships between teen girls and elderly women living in senior homes. We organize teen volunteers into chapters around the country to visit nursing homes at least once a month, providing the women with complimentary facials and makeovers. Our vision is to end elder loneliness by creating compassionate teen leaders nationally through this local programming.

GlamourGals focuses on two critical issues facing America:

1. The growing isolation and loneliness of our elderly population, caused by demographic shifts and
institutionalization; and

2. The bias and disconnectedness of our teenage population, caused by negative imagery of the
elderly in our media and scarce opportunities for meaningful interactions between generations.

Our local mission is to foster intergenerational relationships between teen girls and elderly women living in senior homes through monthly facials and makeovers.

Our national mission is to create the structure and provide the resources that encourage compassionate teen leadership through local intergenerational programming.

GlamourGals is organized into chapters of high school teens, ages 14-18. Chapters are formed within their
schools either as new clubs or as a permanent service activities within existing clubs.

Each chapter is headed by a Chapter President and overseen by an adult advisor. The Chapter Presidents
are teens who recruit and retain volunteers, schedule makeovers, publicize events, hold fundraisers, and
attend leadership seminars. We encourage our volunteers to manage their chapters with a sense of local
ownership. All volunteers network together through both an online community and conference calls, as
well as in person trainings, meetings, and fundraisers hosted by the national office.

November 22, 2008: GlamourGals Leadership Training Institute: GLTI 2008 ”Find Your Voice"

Rachel Doyle is the founder and current president of GlamourGals. With almost a decade of management experience, Rachel has expanded GlamourGals to multiple states, creating a network of chapters with almost 1,000 volunteers. She has planned and executed GG national events and international expansion. Ms. Doyle is frequently invited to speak for the nations’ top universities, youth, and professional groups.

Her motivation and passion for GlamourGals has been a driving force in the popularity of the program. Her persistence of managing “GG with the brains of a business and heart of a cause” continues to make it successful. Her work has been profiled in The New York Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CBS’s The Early Show, CNN Headline News, Chronicle of Philanthropy and even blogged about in Australia. She has received the honor of the first “CosmoGIRL! of the Year,” Cosmopolitan Magazine’s “Fun Fearless Female” and Morton Steakhouse and the American Red Cross “Woman of Spirit” as well as being featured in health and business textbooks.

Rachel holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University.

Susan Schulz, Special Projects, Hearst Magazines
Seri Doyle, Kindergarten Teacher, Belmont Elementary
Noah Doyle, Partner, Cushman Group
Rachel Doyle, President, GlamourGals
Gail Lamchick, Lawyer, Private Practice

Susan Schulz, Board Chairwoman, Editor-in-Chief, CosmoGIRL! Magazine

Debbie Farrell Nelson, Director of Development, Free Arts NYC

Ann Fritz, Beauty/Communications Veteran, The Jet Set Girls

Elizabeth Hendler, Associate Director of Institutional Funding, Grand Street Project

Marisa Kabasinskas, President and Founder, 4StrongConsulting

Seth Klugherz, Brand Manager, Proctor and Gamble

Kristen Nelson, Vice President of Business Development, Total Beauty Media

Julia K. Porter, Adjunct Professor(English), Indiana University/Purdue University - Fort Wayne

Dr. Brent Ridge, Vice President, Healthy Living, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai Medical School

Deborah Streeter, Professor of Entrepreneurship, Cornell University and Founder, E-Clips

Lauren Weisenfeld, Program Director, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation

Caryn Zweig, Managing Director, Abner, Herrman and Brock

Michelle Hickey, CPA, Eisner, LLP.

We are unique intergenerational nonprofit developing and connecting compassionate teen leaders with the elderly through a familiar and simple activity: facials
and makeovers.

Since January of 2000, the GlamourGals program has expanded, despite volunteer management operating with limited resources. This year we are bringing a strategic focus to our expansion, putting sustainable and scalable systems into place, producing additional programs, recognizing and rewarding our volunteers, as well as hiring the necessary staff to manage these operations.
These efficiencies will allow GlamourGals to have future consistency and success. We will continue to capture the press, and build strategic alliances with potential competitors.
We pledge to:

- Foster a movement of young women who are compassionate and mature
- Replicate existing GG programs as well as executing hip and relevant new ones
- Create a consistent look, memorable connection and evoke positive feelings from participants on both sides of the makeover table
- Team with other teen-centric organizations to reach volunteers efficiently
- Increase funding to allow volunteers nationwide to participate in national programming in NYC
- Build commitments for contributions at all levels of the organization
- reach out to national and local press outlets
- Build unique and customized relationships with external funding sources

Please join and support us in inspiring teenage talent to address the issues of elder care quality of life and help make our outreach to become one of the most recognized intergenerational programs for consistency and quality of service.

Founder Awarded: First Cosmogirl of the Year, Morton’s Women of Spirit, Finalist L’Oreal Women of Worth Award, Finalist Fun, Fearless, Female from Cosmopolitan