"You realize it's not the Girl's Club that is the only issue. Girls Inc, is a different entity. American Girl's by their support of Girls Inc, encourages girls to read and study up on things that are quite frankly beyond their years."
I found this.
"The first club was opened there--for boys only--and soon other communities in the region decided that such places would be good for their boys. By the early 20th century the clubs started to affiliate themselves with each other, and in 1931 they became Boys Clubs of America. In 1956, the group was chartered by Congress, and the charter was updated--after an agreement was reached with Girls Clubs of America, which changed its name to Girls, Inc.--to reflect the organization's name change to Boys & Girls Clubs of America in 1990."
So we are talking about boycotting a toy company for a supporting a charity chartered by congress that is also supported by pretty much eveyr major corpoation. Girl's inc.'s CEO is also Managing Director, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. thats giving a lot more support than Amerian Girl.
But again i am not debating the right to do it... just saying that alothough I wish y'all luck, i think it is unwise. If you want to go after Girls Inc you should pick one of their biggest supporters - like Coca Cola or Microsoft.
As someone else has pointed out, the problem/boycott isn't so much to pick on Girls Inc., per say, but the specific contribution from American Girl to this group. It isn't an appropriate charity for a line of products that is for sale in some Christian book stores - consumers of AG products have an expectation that the company is going to maintain some specific ideals. I don't expect a company marketing carbonated products with all sorts of unhealthy aspects (Coke) to have these same ideals. Additionally, this is the first out-in-the-open, you-can-participate-too charitable thing that American Girl has done (that I'm aware of, at least). The company needs to be aware that, if it wants to maintain it's current customer base, it needs to be sensitive to the beliefs held by those consumers.