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.
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.
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!
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!
Find out how our curriculum made a difference to these young girls in Medford. Click on the photo at left to read more.
Girls Taking Up Space In the NY Times
The Women's Sports Foundation's GoGirlGo! program has been addressing the opportunity gap of underserved girls for many years and the fact that this issue is getting attention is a wonderful sign of progress. These articles are a victory on behalf of underserved girls we work with:
A City Team’s Struggle Shows Disparity in Girls’ Sports
Using Teamwork to Bring Girls Into the Game
GoGirlGo! Boston is a part of Boston Teamworks!