What is Girls
on the Run?
Girls on the Run is a life-changing,
experiential learning program for girls age 8 to 13.
The programs combine training for a 3.1 mile running event with self-esteem
enhancing, uplifting workouts. The goals of the program are to encourage
positive emotional, social, and mental development in young girls.
Vision
- To support a network of Girls on the Run sites across the country
- To provide quality and life-changing programming for girls and
women, and to provide quality and life-changing experiences to the
women involved in the delivery and development of the program as
well
- To support an intensive, nationwide, media campaign that will provide
positive, healthy images of girls and women
- To promote an environment that allows girls and women to reach
their full potential
To constantly strive to improve itself by staying open-minded, trusting
and flexible, even in the business world
- To enhance the lives of all involved in the program
- To influence literally hundreds of thousands of girls and women
in the next 30 years by establishing Girls on the Run sites around
the country and the world
- To be a foremost expert on ways to raise and support a healthy
girl in these ever-changing times
- To assist in nothing less than a complete transformation in the
way girls and women perceive themselves and their place in society.
