May 12, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
Who says starting a charity can’t be an absolutely glamorous undertaking?
Not Rachel Doyle. She’s the founder of GlamourGals, a five-year-old charity in Commack, N.Y., that organizes teenagers to volunteer to visit nursing homes to give free makeovers and facials to the women in residence.
The Web site of the association of young charity leaders known as Future Leaders of Philanthropy—or FLIP conducted an interview with Ms. Doyle and her rapidly growing group.
She held her first advisory board meeting in a broom closet on her college campus, she says. Now the organization has some 1,000 volunteers in 50 chapters across seven states.
It hopes to double in size in the next two years and expand its online presence. “We want to create the model for nonprofit-chapter social networking,” says Ms. Doyle. “We created GGChapters, the beginning of our GG virtual community for volunteers to connect, with a grant from the The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation. We want to take it to the next level and allow our volunteers to communicate with one another in this community. “
