Put the power in girl power.

Girl with Grit

A 501c3 nonprofit whose mission is to empower girls through skills, experiences, and mentors.

Girl 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 2022.

Contact: assistant@girlwithgrit.com | 210-201-3315
Social: @girlwithgritprogram
Main Office: 41109 I-10 West, Boerne, TX 78006

Proudly partnered with Come and Make It!.

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OUR MISSION

“to give girls and women a safe space to grow their skills and confidence through mentors and experiences that help develop life skills, career paths, and passions”.

We believe that closing skill gaps and providing girls better independent living skills can potentially save our daughters’ lives, decrease rates of domestic violence, and leave our girls less vulnerable to being taken advantage of.



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100% OF EVERY DOLLAR DONATED GOES DIRECTLY TO PROGRAMMING FOR GIRLS.

GIRL WITH GRIT

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Send your name, event name and date, and payment to @girlwithgrit. We will respond with your confirmation.

Questions? Contact: assistant@girlwithgrit.com.

 

CAMP GIRL WITH GRIT

DO YOU NEED A POTENTIALLY LIFE-SAVING, LIFE-CHANGING SKILL-BUILDING WORKSHOPS?

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 encourage girls to come once or return monthly to advance these skills.

We primarily serve girls and women at Girl with Grit, but we do encourage gender neutral enrollment in our youth skill-building camp. We serve ages primarily 8 to 22 with this skill-building camp. A parent or guardian is welcome to enroll with their child. We do offer camps in all girl, boy, and co-ed formats. 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 behavioral scientists.

Donations to our 501c3 organization serve by allowing us to provide these skill-building camps to underserved populations, including foster youth, youth that have aged out of the system, women housed in domestic violence shelters, and more. We match a third of all funds donated.

Do you want to register? Find our next Camp Girl with Grit on the Calendar. 

 

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Want to organize a Private Party, Event, or Camp?

Please click above and fill out the info for your event. We have endless opportunities for private camps, girl power birthdays, corporate events, camps and classes, and more. 



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SUPPORT GIRL WITH GRIT

Are you wanting to support independent girls?

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100% OF EVERY DOLLAR DONATED GOES DIRECTLY TO PROGRAMMING FOR GIRLS.

Strong women are invited to come volunteer for Girl with Grit. We have many opportunities for you to inspire the next generation. Sign up here.

BECOME A GIRL WITH GRIT

Girl with Grit Program offers a membership to monthly classes for only $60. Classes include our monthly Camp Girl with Grit, Finance Classes, and more. 

GIRL WITH GRIT ENTREPRENEURS

Girl with Grit believes in working to close gender gaps in many areas including in woman owned businesses. It takes grit to make it business ownership and we seek the chance to get girls started.

Girl with Grit partners with the Come and Make It! Junior Entrepreneur Club to provide our girls endless opportunities in skills. One of our focuses is growing business skills.

Products purchased through our “Girl Owned Businesses” are by young female entrepreneurs.

Upcoming Classes at Come and Make It!

Beyond the skills that we feel are vital to independent living like changing flats and using drills, Girl with Grit has a partnership with Come and Make It! to offer a variety of skills and experiences through monthly classes.

Over the course of the year, girls that join as members can learn anything from welding to fashion design and gain skills from culinary to automotive. Girl with Grit Program members get access to most of these classes free. Guests are allowed to participate paid.

About Us

Founded by Blythe Zemel in December 2020, Girl with Grit is a grassroot 501c3 nonprofit that empowers girls with hands-on learning opportunities to develop life skills, career paths, and passions. As our nonprofit grew, we noticed a strong need for an all-girls trades program and in 2021, Briana Huhn joined us through her Huhney Bee Trades Program. We have reached beyond Boerne to Dripping Springs, where we utilize Huhney Bee Fabrication to run Camp Girl with Grit and our mobile programming serves the San Antonio and Austin areas.

Throughout 2022, we experienced exponential growth and a need for a safe, gender neutral space and created Come and Make It!, a 501c3 nonprofit creative community that provides hands-on educational programming in Kendall County. 

In the short two years since its founding, Girl with Grit and Come and Make It! have played important roles in the transformation and growth for youth in our area. On average, we served over one hundred girls 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.

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 partnered with Wounded Warrior Project to serve our veterans.

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Mayor Nirenberg Proclamation, San Antonio, TX

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Girl with Grit specializes in unique hands-on programming for girls. We focus on saturating skills into girls that are somewhat overlooked or we feel that there is a gap in. 

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