Profile: Girls For A Change

Girls For A Change (GFC) is a national organization that empowers girls to create social change. We invite young women to design, lead, fund and implement social change projects that tackle issues girls face in their own neighborhoods. GFC provides girls with professional female role models, the tools, resources, and support girls need to gain the voice, ability, and problem-solving capacity to realize their full potential. We welcome and serve all girls and focus our efforts on girls who live in low income communities.

The Girls For A Change Phoenix site is the first one outside of Silicon Valley. After a successful pilot program in the spring of 2006, GFC hired two full time staff in this site. In 2006-07, the site's first full year of programming, more than 20 Girl Action Teams from throughout Maricopa County completed projects. Phoenix Girl Action Teams include collaborations with schools, organizations and group homes.

Our mission:

• Empower girls to be social change makers by providing the tools, resources and support girls need to move from being spectators to being change makers.
• Catalyze professional women to support urban middle and high school girls to become social change makers and innovators, by training the women as social change makers and activists.

This is our work!