Helping parents empower girls
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1. How this project started...
I was laid off from my Silicon Valley writing job at middle-age and spent my retirement funds looking for work during the Great Recession. I traveled to 3 states and 8 cities while couch-surfing and job searching. I never did find work that coincided with my experience.
Determined to persevere, I moved into the extra bedroom of a college friend in Edmonds WA, became one of America’s ‘hidden homeless,’ and started looking for a menial job. While scouring the Internet, I saw an image of a little girl in pink glasses peering over a laptop who looked exactly like my own daughter.
Motivated to guide other girls toward opportunities that weren't available when my own daughter was growing up, I made up my mind to use my writing background and parenting experience to help others. I knew that if I could guide girls toward gender-equality success and far away from experiencing the aftermath of being dismissed by a patriarchy-controlled job sector, I would feel like my life is worthwhile.
I finally got a day job, a small apartment, and started writing handbooks in the early morning before work, during lunch breaks, and on weekends - all fueled by the hopefulness that opportunities for girls/women were slowly improving.
I decided to call my project P.I.N.K. Backpack (P.I.N.K. - Persistent. Intelligent. Necessary. Kind.) because I want to help parents fill girls’ “backpacks” with gender-equality advice and confidence.
2. The Obstacles to Girls' Success
I want to help girls overcome built-in obstacles. From academic challenges to social pressure to family responsibilities, girls seem to experience a disproportionate amount of stress. It's a problem.
To make matters worse, working parents often don’t have time to find an up-to-date, step-by-step resource that's specifically targeted at guiding girls toward gender-equality confidence.
3. My Aha! Solution
I flipped through my internal Rolodex of what I'm good at and decided I could help girls thrive by writing step-by-step procedural handbooks for parents. I'd done procedural writing before so I knew I could write the handbooks concisely. My goal was to help busy parents get practical, actionable gender-equality advice in 10 minutes. Free sample handbook
4. Potential Reach
I decided to target the pre-teen years (ages 8-12 ) when girls are just starting to think of themselves as independent beings yet .
There are millions of parents and caregivers of girls worldwide. If I can reach even a tiny fraction of those millions, we'll all be one step closer to living in a equitable, prosperous world.
5. Why am I raising funds?
Your donation will be distributed as follows:
6. Thank you!
I'm incredibly honored by the opportunity to potentially partner with you to make a positive impact on as many lives as possible. If this campaign is successful and enables me to write and market more handbooks to more parents, we'll all be a little bit closer to living in a world where girls have the chance to grow into their full potential.
Ability over gender. It's time.
Press:
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Former Santa Cruzan’s e-book series aims to help girls
Pajaro Register: Local author kicks off crowdfunding campaign
Aptos Life: https://aptoslife.com/article/local-author-kicks-off-crowdfunding-campaign
Contact:
http://www.pink-backpack.com
info@pink-backpack.com
amazon.com/author/trishallison
1. How this project started...
I was laid off from my Silicon Valley writing job at middle-age and spent my retirement funds looking for work during the Great Recession. I traveled to 3 states and 8 cities while couch-surfing and job searching. I never did find work that coincided with my experience.
Determined to persevere, I moved into the extra bedroom of a college friend in Edmonds WA, became one of America’s ‘hidden homeless,’ and started looking for a menial job. While scouring the Internet, I saw an image of a little girl in pink glasses peering over a laptop who looked exactly like my own daughter.
Motivated to guide other girls toward opportunities that weren't available when my own daughter was growing up, I made up my mind to use my writing background and parenting experience to help others. I knew that if I could guide girls toward gender-equality success and far away from experiencing the aftermath of being dismissed by a patriarchy-controlled job sector, I would feel like my life is worthwhile.
I finally got a day job, a small apartment, and started writing handbooks in the early morning before work, during lunch breaks, and on weekends - all fueled by the hopefulness that opportunities for girls/women were slowly improving.
I decided to call my project P.I.N.K. Backpack (P.I.N.K. - Persistent. Intelligent. Necessary. Kind.) because I want to help parents fill girls’ “backpacks” with gender-equality advice and confidence.
2. The Obstacles to Girls' Success
I want to help girls overcome built-in obstacles. From academic challenges to social pressure to family responsibilities, girls seem to experience a disproportionate amount of stress. It's a problem.
To make matters worse, working parents often don’t have time to find an up-to-date, step-by-step resource that's specifically targeted at guiding girls toward gender-equality confidence.
3. My Aha! Solution
I flipped through my internal Rolodex of what I'm good at and decided I could help girls thrive by writing step-by-step procedural handbooks for parents. I'd done procedural writing before so I knew I could write the handbooks concisely. My goal was to help busy parents get practical, actionable gender-equality advice in 10 minutes. Free sample handbook
4. Potential Reach
I decided to target the pre-teen years (ages 8-12 ) when girls are just starting to think of themselves as independent beings yet .
There are millions of parents and caregivers of girls worldwide. If I can reach even a tiny fraction of those millions, we'll all be one step closer to living in a equitable, prosperous world.
5. Why am I raising funds?
Your donation will be distributed as follows:
6. Thank you!
I'm incredibly honored by the opportunity to potentially partner with you to make a positive impact on as many lives as possible. If this campaign is successful and enables me to write and market more handbooks to more parents, we'll all be a little bit closer to living in a world where girls have the chance to grow into their full potential.
Ability over gender. It's time.
Press:
Santa Cruz Sentinel: Former Santa Cruzan’s e-book series aims to help girls
Pajaro Register: Local author kicks off crowdfunding campaign
Aptos Life: https://aptoslife.com/article/local-author-kicks-off-crowdfunding-campaign
Contact:
http://www.pink-backpack.com
info@pink-backpack.com
amazon.com/author/trishallison
Organizer
Trish Allison
Organizer
Bothell, WA
