Non-Profit 501c3 EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION
GIRL WITH GRITGirl with Grit has been in multiple publications and on various podcasts and was featured in the cover story “Girl Power” in the San Antonio Business Journal. We were also recognized by San Antonio Mayor Nirenberg and nominated as Best Nonprofit in Boerne, TX in 2023
We are proudly partnered with the The AgriCultural Museum and Arts Center, The Hill Country Council for the Arts, and Boerne Parks and Recreation.
Location:
The AgriCultural Museum and Arts Center
102 City Park Rd., Boerne, TX 78006
Mobile Camps Available.
Contact: info@girlwithgrit.com
Social: @girlwithgritprogram
Getting Involved
Girl with Grit
Mission
We started as a purely GIRL POWER program but have adapted to include ALL per community needs and requests. We didn’t like being discriminated against as girls so we don’t discriminate against others.
Girl with Grit believes that saturating more general life skills from tires to sewing and carpentry to cooking can help develop more independence. Without these skills, one can be held back from careers, hobbies, passions, interests, and just plain life. Girl with Grit provides opportunities for youth, adults, and those in need of independent living skills to get these skills.
Making a Donation
Girl with Grit is proud to direct all donations into programming costs and scholarships. This ensures that donations made to our 501c3 nonprofit directly impact the people that need it most. Donations are fully tax-deductible as allowed by law.
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Membership
What do members get access to?
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Friday Creation Stations
Featured Skills We Teach
Drive and Thrive
Students get to do hands-on activities like change a tire, activate flares, jump a battery, learn about safety, all while having fun.
Home Care and Repair
Hands-on fun take-home projects geared towards growing handiness around the house.
Tools and Trades
Huhney Bee Tools and Trades aims to teach youth about viable career paths in the skilled trades through projects.
Stitch-It to Fix-It
Learn how to care, repair, and upcycle clothing and textiles.
Kitchen Keys
Make a treat and learn about various appliances, measuring and baking, cutting and cooking, and learn the biggest tips and tricks to keeping it safe, putting out kitchen fires, and cleaning up after a disaster dish.
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Youth Markets
Real-life Business Skills
Real-life experiences in business from creating a business plan, developing inventory or services, finance classes, and monthly selling opportunities.
Are you a Girl with Grit Member wanting to sign up to sell? Check out our next opportunities to sell:
Upcoming Events
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Camp Girl with Grit
CAMP GIRL WITH GRIT
Girl with Grit offers a 3 hour camp in the San Antonio, TX and Austin, TX area. This camp teaches essentials such as changing a flat tire, road safety, engine maintenance, introduction to tools and hardware, and general home care and repair.
We primarily are known to serve girls and women at Girl with Grit but we do encourage gender neutral enrollment in our youth skill-building camp. We mostly serve ages 8 to 22 with this skill-building camp but have classes for adults as well. Camps are mobile and do travel throughout the region to various schools, events, businesses, and more.
The purpose of Camp Girl with Grit is to quickly saturate basic life skills that are needed for independent living. Camps have been called potentially life-saving and life-changing by law enforcement and behavioural scientists.
REGISTER FOR SCHEDULED CAMPS THROUGH OUR CALENDAR OR BOERNE PARKS AND RECREATION.
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Girl with Grit Workshops
What we do
Our Services
Girl with Grit Skill Building - Included in Membership
We offer a vast array of quick hands-on learning opportunities to introduce skills we feel are necessary to get through life. These skills include a basic understanding of everything from computer skills to skilled trades to culinary to business and finance to art and design.
Camp Girl with Grit - Included in Membership
Camp Girl with Grit provides hands-on opportunities to be prepared for life emergencies like changing a flat to putting out a kitchen fire to fixing a clogged toilet.
Girl with Grit Creation Stations - Included in Membership
Girl with Grit offers a weekly Friday meet-up for students K-12th at the AgriCultural Museum and Arts Center. Students bring a lunch and complete a hands-on project that celebrates life skills, heritage, and the arts.
Youth Markets - Included in Membership
Girl with Grit has Youth Markets which allows kids real-life experiences in business – from creating a business plan, inventory or services, finance classes, and monthly selling opportunities.
Private Classes
We offer private classes, camps, events, and parties with our GIRL POWER crew theme for ALL AGES AND ALL GENDERS. We offer private bookings at our location or at your location. We can come to schools, community centers, parks, corporations, and more.
What Drives Us
Our Mission
We started as a purely GIRL POWER program but have adapted to include ALL per community needs and requests. We didn’t like being discriminated against as girls so we don’t discriminate against others.
Girl with Grit believes that saturating more general life skills from tires to sewing and carpentry to cooking can help develop more independence. Without these skills, one can be held back from careers, hobbies, passions, interests, and just plain life. Girl with Grit provides opportunities for youth, adults, and those in need of independent living skills to get these skills.
Support Us
Get Involved
1934 Chevy Truck
Help us complete our exhibit at The AgriCultural Museum and Arts Center.
Sponsor a Building Kit
Sponsor or donate building kits for youth to learn how to use tools, gain confidence, and more.
Camp Girl with Grit
Help us share the importance of skills such as road safety, tools, and more with youth.
Adults in Need
Sponsor an adult with developmental delays to get access to our life skills classes and more.
Volunteer Teacher
We have volunteer opportunities for those interested in inspiring the next generation.
Market Volunteer
We have volunteer opportunities for members interested in selling at our markets.
Upcoming Events
The Background
Our Story
Founded by Blythe Zemel in December 2020, Girl with Grit is a grassroot 501c3 nonprofit that began in order to empower girls through hands-on learning opportunities to develop life skills, career paths, and passions. Her ultimate goal was to help create a more independent girl. She was supported through the other efforts of the women and girls surrounding us such as Briana Huhn, Staci Andrews, Stephani Risinger, and more.
By 2022, we experienced exponential growth and a need for our programming to expand into working in all populations, all ages, and all gender.
In the short two years since its founding, Girl with Grit has played important roles in the transformation and growth for youth in our area. On average, we served over one hundred girls monthly in 2022, teaching them various vital lessons from the safe use of tools to how to properly change a tire; from how to start and operate a small business to culinary skills.
In 2023, we moved to The AgriCultural Museum and Arts Center to help develop an educational campus in Boerne, TX (just north of San Antonio, TX) to promote our vital hands-on life skills, our heritage, the arts, and a vision of an improved community hub.
Our camps and classes are all inclusive and have included youth in group homes, foster care, shelter residents, as well as the special needs population. Recently, we even partnered with Wounded Warrior Project to serve our veterans.
