GIRLS ON THE RUN
NAPA & SOLANO
Fall & Spring 2014-2015
Agenda
Mission
 Strategies & History
 What is it, really?
 Success!
 How you can start?
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Mission
To inspire girls to be
joyful, Healthy, caring
and CONDFIDENT,
by creatively
combining life-skill
curriculum with fun
experiential activities
and running or just
moving it.
Girls on the Run
FUN & positive empowerment program for young girls!
Nominated non profit of the year in 2013
Strategies
Girls on the Run Napa & Solano is a local, nonprofit
council of Girls on the Run International that raises
money so all girls, regardless of financial status, ethnicity
or body type, can participate.
Over 2300 girls have participated at 25 schools
throughout Napa, Fairfield and Vallejo
In 2014, 517 girls participated with 74% low income and
63% Latina girls
78%
saturation in Napa County
80% of sites full or sold out, with many in 24 hours
Push to expand Solano County in Fall 2014
History
Small non-profit moving toward sustainability
 Started as volunteer in 2006 with 30 girls in two groups
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Aggressively expanded so all girls can participant in
2008
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4 women on board
Expand volunteer board of directors
Office moved to Napa from home in 2013
Full Napa County budget first time in 2014
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180k budget
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Fund raise 140k from donations $1 to $15,000
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Expand into Solano with grant from Kaiser
Curriculum Overview
3 sections:
1.
Self Care, Self Awareness,
Knowing Self (Lessons 1-9)
2.
Selecting Healthy
Relationships and Keeping
Them Healthy (Lessons 10-17)
3.
Celebrating and Sharing Our
Strengths (Lessons 18-24)
End of 10 weeks:
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Community Service Project
5k Fun run
1 Trained and Supportive Coaches and Volunteers…
2
CARING
CARING
COMPETENCE
3
CONFIDENCE
COMPETENCE
Girls
Learn
Life
Skills
CONNECTION
CONNECTION
4
CONFIDENCE
CONTRIBUTION
CHARACTER
CHARACTER
Promotion of physical, mental, social, and
spiritual health outcomes AND prevention of
unhealthy and risky outcomes
Happy, Empowered & Healthy Life Tools!
Positive visualization
 No Peer Pressure &
Gossip!
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 Stop
and take a BrThRR
I Feel Statements
 Redefining Beauty &
Media Awareness
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 Photo
Shop!
Strategies to help make a lasting
impact!
Success Stories!
Mom shared that she was going to have her
daughter start counseling but after 10 weeks of
GOTR she didn’t feel she needed it.
Young girl had a reputation as being difficult and
self perception that she was “tough”. It finally
clicked with her after her teacher/life-coach and
GOTR experience to be positive and now other’s
drawn to her.
Young girl that she can now run with her magic
shoes!
I want to sign up!
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Start GOTR/GOT at your site?
Secure Principal support
 Recruit two GOTR volunteer life coaches
 Complete on-line site application
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Volunteer?
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Life-Coach
40 hrs for 10 weeks;1-2xs per week
 Application, LiveScan, GOTR day of training,
CPR
 Inspire, motivate and empower by facilitating life
skill curriculum & experiential activities
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5k event; single day
 Participate in 5k-walk, run, skip 3.1 miles
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Wrap-Up
Thank you for considering to help empower young
girls to believe in themselves and their dreams!
by volunteering or offering GOTR/GOT at your site
And helping our community address:
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Health challenges
Educational gap
Gender biases