One of the most exciting new efforts to achieve gender parity is called "EVE: Equal Representation Everywhere." If you can only be that which you can see, then girls need to be able to see as many women in leadershsip roles as men. And that includes in statuary, on stamps. and everywhere else that we give recognition to people who have made significant accomplishments.

Right now EVE is looking at making sure women are represented in parade balloons such as will be wafting above July 4th parades all around the country. Here's how you can help:

Join EVE’s 99 Club to help fund the new Amelia Earhart balloon!

We need 99 donors to give $99 each. Visit our secure online donation page to contribute today — and put Amelia Earhart back in the skies!

Americans love parades. And one of the things we love best about parades are those giant helium balloons: floating behemoths in the shape of popular characters like Uncle Sam, Spider Man, Smokey the Bear, Santa Claus, Garfield, and hundreds of others.

But did you know that very few parade balloons depict female characters?

That’s why EVE is teaming up with StarBound Entertainment, one of the country’s top balloon suppliers, to create a whole new line of balloons featuring great American women.

First up: Amelia Earhart!

Our new Amelia Earhart balloon will be a replica of Earhart’s famous red Lockheed Vega (pictured up top), with Amelia in the cockpit. This 40-foot helium balloon will appear in parades all over the country, and be seen by millions of Americans on TV and in local celebrations.

In honor of the original Ninety-Nines, the club for women pilots founded by Amelia Earhart in 1929, we’ve named our fundraising group the 99 Club.

We need 99 donors to give $99 dollars each — $9,801 total — so we can put Amelia Earhart back in the skies.

Your donation enrolls you as a member of EVE’s 99 Club, and we’ll list your name on the Wall of Fame (see the bottom of this page). We’ll also list you on our Donor page.

Just $99, and Amelia will fly once more. Families, kids — little girls — all over the country will be reminded of one of America’s greatest heroines.

Become a member of the 99 Club today! Visit our secure online donation page to contribute — and put Amelia Earhart back in the skies!