Girls Write Now is delighted to celebrate Digital Learning Day on February 1 with our friends at Figment. Read more about our new Digital Remix pilot, and share your own online writing (and video, audio, photos, etc.) by tagging #whatimake and #DLDay on Twitter and Facebook!

Digital Remix Portfolio Pilot is supported by the MacArthur Foundation and the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust. 

In honor of National Thank Your Mentor Day this January 26, Girls Write Now mentees--the writers of today and tomorrow--thank both the mentors who help them succeed, and the donors who make their mentoring program possible.

With your critical support, we raised nearly $97,000 for our 2011 Holiday Appeal--$17,000 beyond our ambitious goal of $80,000, and a new record for Girls Write Now fundraising. The best part is that these generous donations from our supporters will make our program even stronger, and help us connect mentors with young writers in the new year.

Girls Write Now wishes our friends at lauded literary and music blog LargeHearted Boy a very happy 10th birthday! We celebrated together at WORD Bookstore on January 26, with readings from Emma Straub and Jennifer Gilmore, and songs from Alina Simone - with a raffle to benefit Girls Write Now. Read BookBoroughing's coverage of the event for photos, and more!

On Wednesday, January 18, at the Bloomberg-sponsored Youth, I.N.C. Innovators Breakfast, Girls Write Now received the First Annual Innovator Award for Board Development, recognizing us as one of the three most enterprising nonprofits improving the lives of New York City youth. Read our press release, and check out video from the event, featuring mentee alum Brittany Barker.

Thanks to YOU, we passed our $80,000 goal in 2011! If you meant to give and didn't make it before December 31, you can still donate today to support the next generation of women writers--like ChanTareya, just one of the girls who will be graduating in our class of 2012.