About Rachel Doyle, GlamourGals Founder And CEO
Rachel Doyle is the Founder and CEO of GlamourGals Foundation. Combining her compassionand love of beauty, she created a unique program that fosters intergenerational connectionswhile developing empathetic leadership skills in teens. Over 25 years, Rachel has deftly steeredthe organization through challenges, including financial downturns and global pandemics, allwhile ensuring that in some years 95% of funding supports its core mission. She is transformingthe organization into a global movement to end elder isolation and loneliness. Withheadquarters in New York City, GlamourGals now mobilizes over 2,000 teen volunteers in 31states and 150 communities across the continent, having inspired more than 10,000compassionate leaders throughout North America since 2000.Rachel founded the GlamourGals Foundation in 2000 as a junior in high school in honor of hergrandmother who had recently passed away. Unable to regularly visit her grandmother wholived in a senior home across the country, she realized there were women in the senior homesin her local community who also were not receiving regular visits from their families.Rachel’s social entrepreneurship was recognized by the Sally Hansen and Glamour Magazine“Best of You” Award in 2015, the Richard C. Cornuelle Social Entrepreneurship InnovationAward (now Civil Society Award), Manhattan Institute for Policy Research in 2011, and theFirst-ever CosmoGIRL! of the year in 2001.GlamourGals has been widely covered by top national press outlets. Rachel has appeared onThe Oprah Winfrey Show, The Montel Williams Show, CBS The Early Show, and The TODAYShow, and has been featured in Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, The Chronicle ofPhilanthropy, and SAP’s “Going Good: Learning for Life” podcast series. The GlamourGalsprogram and Rachel’s leadership style have been included in the following books: “Get ItTogether” by Lauren Berger, McGraw Hill 7th Grade Health Textbook, and a Prentice HallCollege Management textbook.Known as an inspirational speaker, Rachel is regularly invited to share her expertise on the topicof leadership skills development at conferences, schools, trade organizations, and businessgroups, including Harvard University, Cornell University, University of Southern California, HughO’Brian Youth Leadership, HSBC, and OMD Worldwide.She holds a B.S. in Policy Analysis and Management from Cornell University, as well as anEntrepreneurship Certificate from The Bank of America Institute for Women's Entrepreneurshipat Cornell University.
GlamourGals Foundation, Inc., PO Box 20488, New York, NY 10021 – www.glamourgals.org | EIN: 01-0565218

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