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Girls in the Game empowers girls to find their voice, discover their strength, and build confidence through fun and active sports, health, and leadership programs. Since its founding in 1995, the organization has served more than 65,000 girls, primarily from under-resourced communities in Chicago. With a focus on the whole girl—addressing her physical, emotional, and mental well-being—Girls in the Game offers age-appropriate, evidence-based programming for girls ages 7 to 18. These programs are designed to keep girls engaged from childhood through adolescence, equipping them with lifelong skills to lead healthy, confident, and successful lives. Our programs include After School Programs, Teen Programs, one-day events, and a Summer Camp. What began as a small effort to ensure girls had access to sports has grown into a comprehensive organization that listens to what girls need—whether it’s leadership development, health education, or physical activity—and meets them where they are. With access to sports in public schools constantly being cut, these girls may not have any other way to learn some of these lessons that only playing sports can teach: things like teamwork, how to lose gracefully and how to lead a team. Today, Girls in the Game serves a diverse population, offering free, site-based programming and transportation support to break down barriers to participation. By creating inclusive, girl-centered spaces, Girls in the Game helps girls speak up, stand out, and inspire future generations. When you donate to Girls in the Game, you help girls across Chicago become strong leaders in their communities.

Girls Leading Girls trains young women in leadership and life skills through soccer.

Mission: We engage, educate and empower girls, because girls matter! Engage: Girls are actively involved in the development of our program, so that it meets their needs and interests. Educate: We strive to teach girls life skills in a playful way, so that they have the means to develop themselves further. Empower: Our goal is to inspire and motivate girls, and to enable them to contribute to the community. We achieve this with the help of role models, peer educators and collaboration with various organizations. Vision: when one girl finds her power to make different choices that change her life, it inspires others to do so too. She starts a ripple effect that impacts her family, her community, her country, the girleffect Girls are talented, smart and loving, but sometimes forget to put themselves first. At Girls Forward, we want to offer girls a place where they can be themselves, can reflect on their true self, and can get the best out of themselves. At Girls Forward, we empower girls with skills and tools that can help them realize their dreams and ambitions. You will learn to work from your strengths, to think in possibilities and to trust yourself. We stand for diversity and inclusivity; our doors are open to all types of girls. Purpose: to inspire, motivate, contribute to society through role models, peer educators and collaboration partners Our goal is to inspire and motivate girls, and to enable them to contribute to the community. We achieve this with the help of role models, peer educators and collaboration with various organizations. Girls Forward believes that girls can achieve anything they want. Girls are talented, smart and loving, but sometimes forget to put themselves first. At Girls Forward we empower girls by offering them skills and tools that can take them further to achieve their dreams and ambitions. At Girls Forward we want to offer the girls a place where they are able to reflect on their true "I" and get the best out of themselves. Girls Forward strongly thinks in terms of possibilities and to trust yourself. Girls Forward stands for diversity & inclusivity and welcomes all types of girls. Our initiatives are designed to combat gender-based and cultural-based discrimination, promote self-confidence, and encourage personal development. Girls Forward organizes group activities, sport sessions, events and individual coaching. The group activities at Girls Night offer workshops around life skills such as Healthy Girls, Identity, Me Myself & I and Performance. The Healthy Girls Leadership Sport Program organizes sport sessions on a weekly basis which help girls to build confidence and self-esteem. Furthermore Girls Forward organizes a number of large events for and by girls, where Girls Forward wants to motivate, inspire and connect the girls. Besides all these activities Girls Forward counselors offer individual coaching for girls who need a listening ear and advice.

Black Girls Jump's exempt purpose is the use jump rope as a fun form of fitness and pass the art of double dutch down to younger generations. We conduct public health and wellness activities for children and adults.

Using soccer as a gateway, we help break the cycle of poverty by empowering the next generation of FEMALE STUDENT ATHLETES in underdeveloped areas of the world to rise up, make a difference, and become strong leaders in their own communities.

Provide youth basketball development through an all volunteer non-profit entity

Camp Ma-He-Tu was founded as the Lutheran Girls' Camp Association in 1937. We have a long tradition of providing young women with an outdoor experience that incorporates a variety of activities but focuses on individual growth and development.

Our mission is for girls and young women around the world to have equal access to sport and to provide them with skills and abilities that will broaden their opportunities to fulfil their potential. We aim to use the power of football as a catalyst for change, levelling the playing field with respect to economic and gender disparities around the world. We seek to do this by: 1) Establishing safe spaces where girls and women can engage in play, training and competitions -these can be clubs, partnered programmes, competitions, workshops, school delivery, etc. but always ensuring they are are inclusive and bespoke to the participants. 2) Using our Girls United Methodology to deliver content that is focused on developing individuals both on and off the pitch. The syllabus and coaching methodology is integrated with life skills and opportunities to empower participantes, supporting them to find their voices and chase their dreams. 3) By creating agents of change within communities, we seek to challenge limiting gender norms, diminish discrimination and gender violence and change mentalities within entire communities which will favour growth and inclusion for all.

The Johnston Girls Softball Association is dedicated to the purpose of providing the youth and families of our community with exciting and rewarding experiences through the game of softball. Their mission is to provide opportunities for those of all skill levels to learn the fundamentals of softball in a positive and safe environment, with a strong focus on skill development, sportsmanship, and teamwork.

Established in 1992, the Black Women in Sport Foundation, or BWSF, is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase the involvement of black women and girls in all aspects of sport, including athletics, coaching and administration. BWSF’s work, however, is not limited to black women and girls. It enrolls girls and boys in the programs conducted throughout the city of Philadelphia and surrounding areas. It facilitates the involvement of women of color in every aspect of sport in the United States and around the world, through the "hands-on" development and management of grass roots level outreach programs.