The Women’s Sports Foundation’s GoGirlGo! works across the country to improve the health of sedentary girls and to keep girls involved in physical activity. We get girls moving not through direct service, but by supporting programs and organizations that work with girls. GoGirlGo! identifies and weaves together quality resources within each community and provides comprehensive support through education, funding, public awareness and networking.
In 2000 the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Board of Trustees were discussing statistics that showed that one in three girls was physically active. Founder Billie Jean King raised the question, “What about those other two girls?” Find out what happened next.
Our
free, award-winning curriculum providing tools to get girls active has
reached more than 621,000 girls and provided more than $2.9 million in
funding to girl-serving organizations.
Click the video to the left to see the Beantown Jumpers, GoGirlGo! Boston grantees, along with GoGirlGo! Boston director Whitney Post.
GoGirlGo! Boston was launched in November of 2007 as the fourth GoGirlGo! community.
This program, designed for third- to eighth-graders, educates girls about health-risk behaviors and other issues such as body image, bullying, drugs and stress by featured characters and true-life stories from champion athletes like Julie Foudy, Sanya Richards and Diana Taurasi. Download Curriculum Today!
2010 GoGirlGo! RFP will be released soon. GoGirlGo! Grants support
organizations looking to create more physical activity opportunities
for underserved girls. Please sign up for our newsletter in
order to be notified as soon as the RFP goes out. You may also check
back to this site.
See how a local organization, Bikes Not Bombs, implements the GoGirlGo! curriculum in an interview with their Youth Development Coordinator, Diana Boro.
Watch the interview.
GoGirlGo! Boston is dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, resources and
support you need to succeed with GoGirlGo! Please contact us with questions on how you can get Boston girls going! Meet the Staff!
GoGirlGo! Boston is looking for anyone who is committed to helping the benefits of healthy activity reach more girls in the local area. Learn more about our volunteering opportunities.
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