The Ultimate Girl Empowerment Guide to the Bay Area

This Friday we celebrate International Day of the Girl and the good news is that there are many resources, right here in the Bay Area help bolster girls confidence and achieve to be anything they want to be. 

AMAZING EVENTS JUST FOR GIRLS

Day of the Girl

October 11th honors Day of the Girl at the Mill Valley Community Center, we will have a presentation and interactive activity by Girl Force Leadership, then we will be showing two documentaries, Brave Girl Rising and He Named Me Malala. Day of the Girl is a youth-led movement fighting for gender justice and youth rights. Come join us for this empowering evening!

WorldWideWomen Girls' Festival®

Announcing the spectacular WorldWideWomen Girls' Festival® on Saturday, November 9th, 2019 at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Imagine a day of fun, exploration and empowerment for girls. It is truly a day of power and possibility for thousands of girls and their families. Come enjoy over 100 activities—an interactive EXPO, Maker’s Fair, 20+ workshops, all day performances, coding classes, contests and much more!

MVCode

offers fun and engaging girls-only coding classes. These classes are designed to be a friendly and relaxed environment for girls to learn coding and robotics. No experience is necessary, and our trained staff will help design the perfect coding education program for your daughter.

XR Super Girls

is a program that encourages girls to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math [STEAM] through the engagement, education, and empowerment of girls and young women in entrepreneurship and immersive technology in XR: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and 360 Video.

GirlVentures

combines outdoor adventure with social emotional learning for adolescent girls, at a time in their lives when they need our support the most. Girls backpack, hike, kayak and rock climb as they experience the wonders of the Northern California wilderness. They learn from experiential educators and compassionate mentors, while building life skills that will empower them to reach their full potential.

Girls Leadership Institute

teaches girls the skills to know who they are, what they believe, and how to express it, empowering them to create change in their world. Check out there many programs and summer camps.

Spotlight: Girls

is a multi-media platform and summer camp. We educate, inspire, and activate girls and women to take center stage.

SFJAZZ Girls Day

Free workshop for female jazz musicians at SFJAZZ in San Francisco., Saturday, March 9th, 2019. Join celebrated women jazz faculty in this very special session for female jazz instrumentalists and singers ages 13-18. Ensemble techniques, improvisation, and musicianship will be the focus of this program for emerging jazz players.

JazzGirls Day

Tired of being one of the only girls in your band? Wondering where all the other girls are? Want an alternative to the boy-dominated jazz world? Thinking about joining a jazz group, but feeling shy or discouraged by the lack of other women musicians? JazzGirls Day and JazzGirl programs are beginning to happen all over the US.

Bay Area Girls Rock Camp

is an Oakland-based nonprofit that empowers girls through music, promoting an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity and teamwork.

Career Girls

is founded on the dream that every girl around the world has access to diverse and accomplished women role models — to learn from their experiences and to discover their own path to empowerment.

Camp Reel

program teaching high school girls the skills to make their own media, to view current media critically and thoughtfully, and to aspire to leadership.

Gaia Girls Passages

provides circles of support, inspiration and encouragement through nature-based groups, summer camps, and rite of passage ceremonies for females ages 8-18 and their mothers.

Girl Scouts of Northern California

over 50,000 girls and 31,000 adults take part in Girl Scout programs each year for the developmental, educational, emotional, and social needs of girls. Girls are able to make friends, embark on new adventures and realize the power of girls in a fun and safe atmosphere. Growing strong and confident girls who are skilled leaders is a central focus of the organization; this is emphasized through team-building activities and community service.

Girl Talk

is a peer mentoring program that pairs high school girls with middle school girls in order to help the younger girls navigate the tween and early teenage years. Not only do the middle school girls benefit from the guidance of their older peers, the high school girls learn from having the opportunity to share their experiences as positive role models.

Alexa Café

with iD Tech offers this all-girl summer program for ages 10-15, with specialties including coding, video production, photography and web design, and more. Locations in San Jose, Palo Alto, San Francisco and Berkeley.

Black Girls Code

is a Bay Area-based organization introduces girls of color from ages 7-17 to coding, robotics and S.T.E.M. fields through workshops.

Education Unlimited

offers summer science camps at UC Berkeley and Stanford for girls entering fourth through ninth grades, with topics including marine science and biology, engineering, astronomy and neuroanatomy. Day and overnight camps are available.

National Girls Collaborative Project

Encouraging girls to pursue careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.

Women's Audio Mission

a San Francisco-based nonprofit that aims to increase women in music production. Girls on the Mic works with Bay Area middle schools and community organizations to provide girls ages 8-18 with mentors and sound-recording technology to facilitate small-scale recording projects.

Girls Who Code

offers free weekly computer science clubs for middle and high school girls and a free seven-week summer intensive, located at companies and universities, for rising high school juniors and seniors with hands-on learning in computing, robotics, app development, web design and more. Need-based scholarships are available for summer job income replacement and travel costs.

Girls on the Run®

fosters positive emotional, social, mental, spiritual and physical development in girls ages eight to thirteen years old through running programs and workouts. The goal is to prevent girls from engaging in at-risk activities as they mature.

Bay Area Girls Unite

Empowering young women by way of organized sports, non-competitive play, and sharing ideas and opinions in a safe environment.

Bay Area Women's Sports Initiative

(BAWSI) inspires strong, talented and accomplished female athletes and coaches to change the world!

Girls Leading Girls

is a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that trains young women in leadership and life skills through soccer.

Grrrl Brigade

is an intensive dance/leadership development program designed to provide high quality dance training, performance opportunities, and a sense of self-empowerment for San Francisco's girls ages 9 to 18.

Impact Bay Area

is dedicated to providing self-defense and empowerment training to Bay Area and Northern California communities. They offer a Teen "Kick Like a Girl" class for girls ages 12-16.