After successfully completing our first program year, we are excited to be planning for our second year of girls creating social change in Richmond, our inaugural East Coast site.

Check out the team projects implemented by the Richmond Girl Action Teams in 2009 here.

Please see updates below and thank yous to all of our community supporters who made this year a success!

GFC Girl at Huguenot High (Girl Action Team #9) Featured in Skirt! Magazine
Check out what GFC means to Shaiaira at Huguenot High in Richmond. She was featured Skirt! Magazine. See the article here.

GFC Coaches Honored as America Learns Superstars!
The GFC Coaches of Girl Action Team #1 at Albert Hill Middle, were featured as the Network Superstars on America Learns in May. Brandy Peterson and LIanna Woods were honored for submitting a strategy they used with their team that involves girl encouragement and fortune cookies. See their brilliant work here!

Thank you to our Richmond Corporate Supporters
We’d love to extend our gratitude to the local corporate investors in Girls For A Change’s successful pilot year in Richmond:
Bank of America
BJ’s Charitable Foundation 
Dominion
Southeastern Institute of Research 

Our Partners
We also wanted to extend a huge thank you to our community supporters who made this year possible! We could not have done this without your faith in GFC and girls as change agents: