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Girls on the Run® is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams.
Meeting twice a week in small teams, we teach life skills through dynamic, interactive lessons and running games. The curriculum is taught by certified Girls on the Run coaches and includes three parts: understanding ourselves, valuing relationships and teamwork and understanding how we connect with and shape the world at large.
Running is used to inspire and motivate girls, encourage lifelong health and fitness, and build confidence through accomplishment. Important social, psychological, and physical skills and abilities are developed and reinforced throughout the program. At each season's conclusion, the girls and their running buddies complete a 5K running event which gives them a tangible sense of achievement as well as a framework for setting and achieving life goals. The result—making the seemingly impossible, possible, and teaching girls that they can.
Girls on the Run serving Maricopa and Pinal Counties is the local Girls on the Run Council. Founded in 2004, we are a 501(c)(3) organization funded by program fees, grants, donations and corporate sponsors. Girls on the Run serving Maricopa and Pinal Counties has served more than 15,000 local girls and their families at schools and sites across the Valley, and we are growing exponentially. Our goal is to empower all local girls to activate their own unique limitless potential and to be the authors of their own stories.
