Description
Girl with Grit Program is a 501c3 nonprofit. Donations to Girl with Grit are tax-deductible.
ARTS – TRADES – TRADITIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS – STEM – LIFE SKILLS
Our mission is to provide our community with unique hands-on learning opportunities, access to equipment, life skills, and a community space for makers. We specialize in programming for girls and women, youth, and special needs populations.
Your Donation Funds:
Inclusive Community Makerspace
We provide a community space in Kendall County full of educational opportunities in the arts, trades, traditional arts and crafts, STEM, and life skills. We also offer access to equipment, tools, and supplies.
Girl with Grit Program
The mission of the Girl with Grit Program is 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. Girls and women get crash course workshops in everything from entrepreneurship to the trades to life skills – such as automotive care, tools, and more.
Mobile Workshop
The purpose of our mobile workshop is to bring portions of the program into other facilities, community centers, and events. One primary goal is to outfit a truck in order to bring Girl with Grit Program into schools and women shelters with crash course life skills workshops (i.e. changing a flat tire, using standard tools, car and house maintenance) or encouraging trades for young women not college bound. Our mobile workshop also facilitates a mobile makerspace where we can help to serve schools, community centers, and residential facilities with hands-on learning opportunities.
Special Needs Populations
Girl with Grit Makerspace currently houses the Boerne Peace Program bi-monthly for classes with developmentally challenged individuals. Classes aim to build confidence and improve hand-eye coordination, creativity, and a variety of developmentally appropriate skills. We aim to increase funding and provide weekly services to them in 2022.