Our fee-based resources and services include training, research, and evaluation support to organizations serving girls and gender-expansive youth. 

INNOVATIVE AND COMMUNITY-CENTERED

RESEARCH AND EVALUATION SERVICES

AFG believes that when communities of color are leaders and experts of their own stories, the research gains greater depth, specificity, and insight. Through an iterative process of discovery, discussion and design, AFG can provide organizations and institutions support girls and gender-expansive youth stories and experiences and refine their data and knowledge creation process to empower their own stories of impact. We do this through two key research approaches: Participatory Action Research and Transformational Evaluation.

Our Participatory Action Research Services can:

  • Include Youth and Community-based Participatory Action Research (YPAR and CBPAR) and Youth Participatory Evaluation (YPE)

  • Help your organization commit to participatory and community-driven meaning-making and solutions-building

  • Train girls, gender-expansive youth, and communities to be their own researchers to collect and analyze data

  • Highlight storytelling as a tool for solution and world building

Our Transformational Evaluation Services can:

  • Create and refine research and evaluation strategies and systems that center girls & gender-expansive youth

  • Build evaluation capacity that reflects community values and stories

  • Provide technical assistance to staff that transform organizational culture

  • Shiftevaluation frameworks, which engages all youth, communities, staff, leadership, and stakeholders

  • Create mutual learning partnerships

BUILD YOUR SKILLS AND LEARN FROM YOUR PEERS THROUGH

AFG’S DIGITAL
LEARNING HUB

AFG’s on-demand training courses are led by girl and youth-serving organizations with innovative and effective practices for supporting girls and gender-expansive youth.

We aim to provide training that gets results — and gets you on the path to activating practices, principles, and strategies for authentic and effective engagement with girls and gender-expansive youth. Participants will leave with a certificate of completion and plenty of takeaway resources and valuable connections to draw from.

On-demand courses on AFG’s Digital Learning Hub are free for members, $35 for non-members in non-profits for 1-year access, and $40 for all other non-members for 1-year access.

Youth Participatory Action Research 101

Taught by: Evaluation Studio

This three-part video training is designed for organizations that want to work authentically with youth and youth who want to organize a YPAR project to make changes in their community

Whether it's for changes in school or community programs, organizations, or against discriminatory behaviors and practices, this video series aims to empower participants with the knowledge and resources to facilitate and organize a YPAR project.

Anti-Racist Financial Literacy For Girls,* Gender-Expansive Youth, and their Champions

Taught by: Latinas Talk Dinero

This three-part video training is tailored for girls and gender-expansive youth, offering essential financial literacy resources. Latinas Talk Dinero aims to foster a supportive environment within these modules while providing a safe space where youth can explore financial topics without fear of judgment. Their goal is to empower young individuals to make informed financial decisions that resonate with their personal, cultural values, and aspirations.

Intro to Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression (SOGIE): Affirming Approaches and Expansive Practices

Taught by: Rainbow Community Center

As champions of girls and young women who are cisgender, transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming, it is important for us to understand, practice, and implement approaches that support them in exploring and honoring their gender identities and sexualities so that they can have agency and become powerful individuals.

Caring Authority: Shifting Power to Girls* and Gender-Expansive Youth

Taught by: Marissa Pienaar

This course teaches learners about how power dynamics work and how to intentionally divest from ways of being in relationship with girls that can be harmful. The facilitator will teach the Caring Authority framework, how to use it, and how to shift power dynamics between girls and adults to make space for their voices and participation.