Start a club

Want to start a GLAM Club in your school? We’re so excited for you to get started! Here’s how:

Step 1

Check out GLAM’s Purpose and Goals

GLAM GIRL is the Global Local Athletic Movement started by four young athletes who believe sport is one of the great drivers of gender equality. By combining sport practice, leadership training and service projects, GLAM GIRL creates more opportunities for young women and girls on the field and promotes gender equality and women’s empowerment in the wider world.

GLAM GIRL helps young women and girls to develop leadership skills, challenge stereotypes, overcome barriers and follow their dreams. What motivates and inspires us is the fact that girls’ participation in sports is associated with having a positive multiplier effect on lots of development outcomes --- health, education and leadership (to name just a few)!

GLAM Club offers a way for you and your club members to learn and take action.

The GLAM PLAYBOOK is our unique sports activism guide. Inside are all the plays and strategies you need to make a difference in the lives of young female athletes. From understanding the problems female athletes face to imagining and finding solutions, the GLAM PLAYBOOK is an inspiring how-to for change.

GLAM Campaigns + Service Projects are inspired by the goal of giving back to the community and supporting female athletes in need. They include:

GLAM Giving Tree: a holiday service project featuring GLAM’s hot pink Giving Tree
Presence Is Power: a school-wide campaign to encourage more fans to show up at girls’ games
Pass It Forward: a service project to collect and distribute sports equipment for girls in need
Demand IX: a campaign project that collects signatures to support ongoing efforts for strong Title IX protections and enforcement
HerSport Fellowship: a fundraising campaign to support a GLAM-sponsored scholarship for the Women in Sports Leadership program offered by WomenX

Are you inspired by the mission of empowering girls through sports? Do you want to help female athletes get in the game through service projects and arm yourself with knowledge about women athletes who’ve paved the way for girls today? Do you believe that participation in sports can be a catalyst for developing leadership skills? If so, then starting a GLAM Club seems like a great step in your activist journey!

Fill out this GLAM GIRL Application Form to get going! Once we receive your application, we’ll schedule a call with you within 10-14 days. This meeting will give us the opportunity to introduce at least one of the GLAM GIRL founders and provide information about the resources available to you to launch your club!

Step 2

Register GLAM Club With Your School + Recruit Members

Most high schools require clubs to go through an approval process. That may mean filling out a simple form, or it may require discussing the club with teachers or school staff. It’s important to learn how to register GLAM Club at your school so that you have the approval you need to host club meetings, post information at school and recruit members. If you’re not sure how to get the approval process started, ask your academic adviser, a teacher, or someone in administration. Your student handbook may also have information on registering clubs.

Before registering, make sure you’ve completed Step One so that you can answer questions about GLAM Club – why you want to start it and what club members will be doing. Once GLAM Club is school-approved, a teacher, coach or staff member may be assigned as the club supervisor/sponsor. If there’s someone you’d like as your supervisor/sponsor, ask them!

If your school requires you to write bylaws for the club, here’s a GLAM Bylaws template to get you started.

Now that you’re official, it’s time to recruit members and figure out when and where you’d like to hold meetings. We recommend two meetings per month. In addition to talking with your friends and teammates about joining, spread the word to your larger school community by posting flyers or including news about GLAM Club in a student publication. Here’s a poster template to get you started. Get creative about how you engage with your classmates, and remember, recruiting new members is an ongoing process.

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Step 3

Access the Club Portal + GLAM PLAYBOOK

As soon as you’re official, you’ll have access to the Club Portal on this website and be able to access the awesome GLAM PLAYBOOK created exclusively for you to have everything you need to help female athletes in need. The GLAM PLAYBOOK is designed to help you structure GLAM Club meetings around the Campaigns + Service Projects, and to inspire conversation and action. We recommend familiarizing yourself with everything on the portal so you can share a roadmap for the year with club members and get excited about what’s ahead!

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Step 4

It’s GLAM Club Meeting Time!

Introduce yourself and GLAM Club and answer questions people may have. This is a great time to share the GLAM GIRL purpose, mission and goals and to let people know when you’ll be meeting. Consider snacks (everyone loves snacks!) and your school may offer a stipend for your club to buy them. Don’t try to do too much in this first meeting - it is OK to start small (most great things always start small). It’s a great opportunity to get everyone excited about what the future holds.

For each meeting, make sure everyone submits the Club Attendance Sign-In Form (available to you on the Club Portal once your Club is official). Decide as a group how you’d like to stay connected on club news: email, Snapchat, IG. At the end of the meeting, let members know where and when the next meeting will be held.

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Step 5

Assign Duties and Plan Events

It’s a good idea to figure out leadership roles in the first few meetings to help keep things running smoothly. You can hold elections or nominate people to fill the roles.

Officer roles usually include:

President: Leads and supervises the club with help from other officers.
Vice President: Fills in when the president is not available.
Secretary: Takes notes during meetings, maintains club records, keeps members updated on club news and events.
Treasurer: Manages the club’s budget and expenses

And we recommend this role also:

Social Media Manager: Takes photos, creates content, runs club social media account(s)

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GLAM is the GLOBAL LOCAL ATHLETIC MOVEMENT