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2 community nonprofits join forces, create leadership opportunities for girls in Forsyth County

LEAD Girls founder and CEO, Joy Nelson Thomas(right), and Crosby Scholars president and CEO, Mona Lovett (left)

2 community nonprofits join forces, create leadership opportunities for girls in Forsyth County
January 14
14:00 2025

LEAD Girls of North Carolina is kicking off the new year with an exciting partnership creating additional leadership opportunities for middle-school-age girls in Forsyth County. LEAD Girls and Crosby Scholars have established a new dual enrollment program enabling participants in LEAD Girls to also join Crosby Scholars.

“We are thrilled to join forces with Crosby Scholars as we both work to help students achieve, lead and contribute,” said Joy Nelson Thomas, founder and executive director of LEAD Girls of NC. “As a community, we want to be pouring all of our available resources into lifting up these young people – our future leaders, lawyers, engineers and teachers.”

Thomas worked closely with Crosby Scholars President and CEO Mona Lovett to develop the new program.

“Through this program, we’re reaching even more young girls as they enter their formative school years,” said Lovett. “We’re instilling in them the confidence and leadership skills that will pave the way for them to realize their potential as they pursue their career and college aspirations. Our partnership with LEAD Girls strengthens the work we’re doing to ensure these young students have a continuum of services throughout middle and high school.”

LEAD Girls has identified more than 300 of its middle school participants as well as LEAD Girls alumni currently in high school who are eligible for the dual enrollment program. They will join the more than 140 LEAD Girls already participating in Crosby Scholars.

LEAD Girls board member Jasmine Pitt also helped shape the new program through her personal experiences as a Crosby Scholar during her middle and high school years.

“Leadership development programs like LEAD Girls and Crosby Scholars create life-changing opportunities for young people in our community whose potential may not match their available resources,” said Pitt, a graduate of Wake Forest University School of Law and an attorney with Akerman LLP in Winston-Salem. “With this innovative dual enrollment program, more LEAD Girls participants can take advantage of Crosby Scholars’ unique career and college exploration programs and expanded spaces for community service.”

About LEAD Girls of NC

Founded in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in 2015, LEAD Girls of NC focuses on serving girls whose resources do not match their limitless potential as they work toward becoming productive citizens and active leaders in their communities. LEAD (Learning Everyday Accomplishing Dreams) uses an evidence-based curriculum in partnership with Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools and through community-based programs to encourage and mentor girls to aspire and achieve greatness academically, emotionally and creatively. LEAD envisions a world where every girl has the confidence, social skills and leadership ability she needs to become an independent, financially stable woman. Change a girl. Change a community. Change the world. Leadgirls.org

About Crosby Scholars 

Since 1992, Crosby Scholars has provided Forsyth County students in grades 6-12 with career and college exploration, admissions and financial aid workshops, advising services, college campus visits, community service opportunities, cultural experiences, and over $980,000 in scholarships and Last Dollar Grants for college tuition annually. Crosby Scholars now serves more than 10,000 students each year and has assisted over 35,000 Forsyth County students for college and for life. Crosbyscholars.org



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