Dove Self Esteem Fund
Dec. 25th, 2007 06:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sunlit_musicThe Dove Self Esteem Fund is a great campaign designed to challenge beauty stereotypes and alter the way girls and women see and accept beauty. The following text in italics is from the Dove Self Esteem Fund's website (http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/dsef07/t5.aspx?id=7322):
We developed the Dove Self-Esteem Fund to make real change in the way women and young girls perceive and embrace beauty. We want to help free ourselves and the next generation from beauty stereotypes.
Too many girls develop low self-esteem from hang-ups about looks. Consequently, many fail to reach their full potential later in life. The Dove Campaign For Beauty and Self-Esteem Fund is an agent of change to educate and inspire girls on a wider definition of beauty.
To make change possible, the Dove Self-Esteem Fund focuses its efforts to foster positive image-related self-esteem in two areas of activity:
The Fund develops and distributes resources that enable and empower women and girls to embrace a broad definition of beauty
The Fund provides needed resources to organizations that foster a broader definition of beauty
It is our mission to continue to provide the tools and support to individuals, groups and organizations. We recognize that we alone can’t make changes in the way beauty is defined. We invite you to get involved.
The Dove Fund website has excellent resources, including:
1. Workshops and guides that encourage girls and women to accept and embrace their appearances
2. Interactive Self Esteem Builders (quizzes and activities) made for helping girls and women accept and take pride in their own type of beauty. This includes activities people can do together.
3. Facts about positive body image, beauty myths and healthy self esteem.
We developed the Dove Self-Esteem Fund to make real change in the way women and young girls perceive and embrace beauty. We want to help free ourselves and the next generation from beauty stereotypes.
Too many girls develop low self-esteem from hang-ups about looks. Consequently, many fail to reach their full potential later in life. The Dove Campaign For Beauty and Self-Esteem Fund is an agent of change to educate and inspire girls on a wider definition of beauty.
To make change possible, the Dove Self-Esteem Fund focuses its efforts to foster positive image-related self-esteem in two areas of activity:
The Fund develops and distributes resources that enable and empower women and girls to embrace a broad definition of beauty
The Fund provides needed resources to organizations that foster a broader definition of beauty
It is our mission to continue to provide the tools and support to individuals, groups and organizations. We recognize that we alone can’t make changes in the way beauty is defined. We invite you to get involved.
The Dove Fund website has excellent resources, including:
1. Workshops and guides that encourage girls and women to accept and embrace their appearances
2. Interactive Self Esteem Builders (quizzes and activities) made for helping girls and women accept and take pride in their own type of beauty. This includes activities people can do together.
3. Facts about positive body image, beauty myths and healthy self esteem.
