What We Do
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 recourses within each community and provides comprehensive support through
education,
funding,
public awareness and
networking.
Our ImpactOur 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.
GoGirlGo! Founding StoryIn 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.
About Us:
Chicago is a cosmopolitan city of class and culture. But beyond the glamour of the Gold Coast and the marquee events at Millennium Park, there is a side of this city that—while not always visible—desperately needs to be seen.
The health of our girls is in a state of crisis. Sedentary lifestyles, inadequate nutrition and poor behavioral choices threaten the physical and emotional well-being of girls in the metro Chicago area. From the North Shore to the South Shore, girls suffer from low self-esteem, obesity unintended pregnancy and severe inactivity. But these trends don’t have to be the defining characteristics of our communities, and thanks to local programs’ involvement in GoGirlGo!, positive change is already underway.
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!
Meet the GoGirlGo! Chicago Staff
GoGirlGo! Chicago 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 Chicago girls going! Click here for more information about our staff.