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 resourses within each community and provides comprehensive support through education, funding, public awareness and networking.
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.
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.
GoGirlGo! Boston was launched in November of 2007 as the fourth GoGirlGo! community, preceded by Atlanta, Chicago and San Antonio.
Find out more about who brings GoGirlGo! to Boston. Meet the Staff!
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. Order Curriculum today!
Find out how our curriculum made a difference to these young girls in Medford. Click on the photo at left to read more.
Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino was at hand during the November launch of GoGirlGo! Boston. A great supporter of city recreation and health
programs, the mayor said, “When our girls and young women are active in sports they can learn useful skills like teamwork and leadership and build the self-confidence they need to succeed in life. The City of Boston welcomes the Women’s Sports Foundation’s GoGirlGo! Boston — it is just what we need to get girls moving in the right direction.” Our next GoGirlGo! Boston
Leadership Conference is coming up on
Friday, June 6.