Funders to approach for Girls on the Run of Coastal Georgia

Missions: We inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.The Girls on the Run curricula, the heart of the program, provides pre-adolescent girls with the necessary tools to embrace their individual strengths and successfully navigate life experiences making healthy choices.Our character education program is transformation for young girls. Research has clearly shown that beginning at age eight, girls begin to become particularly vulnerable to outside influences. The Girls on the Run program counters this vulnerability by providing positive, healthy outside influences. Young girls today are influenced by unrealistic and often unhealthy images in the media. They see and hear things that they are not always able to process. Girls on the Run offers education, activities, dedicated time and positive adult influences to counter these images. We help girls determine who they are and encourage them to embrace…