2025 Programs: Enjoyable, Exploration, and Self Expression Await

Our packages invite women to step past the classroom, discover their passions, and even journey internationally — together with to Ghana as a part of our Her Journey Home expertise. Along the way in which, they’ll construct management expertise, earn service hours, and safe summer season 2026 internships that strengthen their futures.

In a time when the world wants their brilliance, we’re dedicated to nurturing well-rounded women who play, relaxation, be taught, and lead with confidence and objective. At GFAC, we’re by no means unsure about what Black women want: our assist, steering, love, kindness, and coronary heart. We are sure of their energy and their rightful place on this planet. Check out all of our packages right here.

Her Journey Home

Highly beneficial by Camp Diva contributors! Her Journey Home is a year-long, culturally grounded program for center college (eighth grade) and highschool women (ninth–twelfth grade) open to all new GFAC contributors. The program culminates in a transformational 10-day journey to Ghana in 2026, providing women a life-changing alternative to attach with their roots, discover their id, and step confidently into international sisterhood.

With solely ten contributors chosen, this system provides an intimate and intentional journey supported by chaperones, alumnae, and a movie crew documenting every woman’s development and brilliance. Throughout the yr, contributors will interact in management workshops, discipline journeys, and fundraising actions, constructing expertise and confidence for worldwide journey.

In partnership with different girl-centered packages, contributors will type a robust sisterhood and co-create a sustainability mission, capturing their tales on movie as a part of a collaborative, inventive course of. The program transforms ardour into risk—empowering women to journey deliberately, inform their very own tales, and step boldly into their energy as international changemakers. Learn extra right here.

Building Cultural Archives at VMFA

This Girl Action Team invitations women to discover artwork, writing, dance, music, and tradition via the Alicia Keys & Swizz Beatz Collection at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). Over eight months, contributors will analysis household and group historical past, create cultural “story boxes,” and design unique artwork tasks that honor id and heritage. The program culminates in a public exhibit, the place women proudly function curators of their very own tales.

Middle college contributors will transition to Camp Diva’s Mission in Bloom to organize for highschool, whereas highschool contributors could have the chance to hitch our Girl Ambassador Program, gaining paid summer season internships at native museums and exploring potential careers within the arts, curation, and cultural preservation.

Together, they’re reimagining management, creativity, and what it means to vary the world — with power, innovation, and sisterhood that deliver studying to life throughout a number of colleges and communities. Learn extra right here.

From Journal to Leadership at John Rolfe Middle School

This Girl Action Team helps Fifth-grade women put together for center college with confidence, creativity, and pleasure! Inspired by our Mission In Bloom summer season program, women dive into hands-on actions, journaling, and full of life e book membership discussions that spark creativeness and self-discovery. Each week, they collect in Sistah Circles stuffed with laughter, sharing, and actual speak about what to anticipate in center college—friendships, new duties, and discovering their voice. Together, they construct sisterhood, confidence, and braveness as they step boldly into this subsequent chapter.

By the top of the yr, contributors aren’t simply center college prepared, they’re blooming with resilience, pleasure, and objective. Participants additionally obtain early chook registration for Camp Diva Leadership Academy, with registration charges waived and precedence consideration for scholarships (pending funding and availability) to decide to our six-week summer season program on the Girls For A Change department. Learn extra right here.

From Fifth Grade to the Future at George Washington Carver Elementary

This Girl Action Team prepares Fifth-grade Black women for the transition into center college with confidence and pleasure. Modeled after our Mission In Bloom summer season curriculum, this system combines journaling, e book golf equipment, and weekly Sistah Circles to create protected areas for reflection, self-expression, and belonging. By the top of the yr, contributors are center college prepared—outfitted with the instruments, confidence, and sisterhood they should navigate new challenges and step boldly into this subsequent stage of their journey with resilience and objective. Learn extra right here.

Immersion Lab

The Immersion Lab prepares Black women to thrive by closing the digital divide and constructing important profession and enterprise expertise. The program gives mentorship, coaching, certifications, and entrepreneurship alternatives that nurture creativity, confidence, and management. Participants work alongside profitable professionals to develop and take a look at enterprise concepts, achieve hands-on expertise via pop-up retailers and merchandising alternatives, and observe pitching to traders—studying the basics of proudly owning and working a profitable enterprise.

At a time when greater than 400,000 Black ladies have misplaced their jobs, many are turning to entrepreneurship as a pathway to stability and independence. The Immersion Lab helps put together the subsequent era to satisfy that second—equipping women to guide with resilience, innovation, and objective. Grounded within the ideas of supporting contributors to thrive within the face of adversity, this system teaches women to embrace challenges, construct group networks, and develop the mindset and expertise to not solely begin a enterprise, however to succeed as younger founders. This early begin lays the inspiration for wealth-building, monetary confidence, and long-term influence.

Whether contributors include a enterprise concept or not, they go away with real-world expertise, mentorship, and the arrogance to discover careers, launch ventures, and step boldly into their futures as highly effective innovators and entrepreneurs. Learn extra right here.

Girl Ambassador Program: Applications Open Soon

The Girl Ambassador Program (GAP) is a transformative four-year, tiered workforce improvement initiative that prepares highschool women to thrive in school, careers, and life. Designed as an 18-week curriculum, GAP blends profession readiness, management improvement, social-emotional studying, and entrepreneurship via structured classes, hands-on workshops, and real-world experiences.

Throughout this system, contributors earn trade certifications, construct skilled networks, strengthen résumés, and discover a number of profession pathways. Seniors who’ve accomplished three years in this system are eligible for a pay enhance, summer season internships, and a capstone residential expertise as rising first-year school college students—with continued assist as they pursue greater training. Graduates stay related via the Girls For A Change Alumnae Network, which gives mentorship, profession connections, and alternatives to scale their goals.

GAP additionally connects with The Immersion Lab (elective), increasing alternatives for management, journey, scholarships, and private development.

Upon completion, every woman emerges career-ready, college-ready, community-ready, certification-ready—She Ready. Learn extra and be part of an information session.