Causes: Children & Youth, Civil Rights, Community Coalitions, Girls Clubs, Women, Womens Rights, Youth Development Programs

Mission: Hardy Girls Healthy Women is a Maine-based, research-driven, youth-informed nonprofit. Established in 2000, we partner with girls and gender expansive youth to ignite curiosity, promote thinking critically, build coalitions, and challenge the status quo. We believe in changing the culture, not fixing the young person. HGHW works with 1,200+ girls and gender expansive youth annually through year-round, statewide programs. Our mission is to take girls and gender expansive youth seriously and to put the power in their hands to challenge a society that ignores their brilliance.

Target demographics: self-identifying girls and gender-expansive youth

Direct beneficiaries per year: 1.200 girls and nonbinary youth, 65 community partners

Geographic areas served: Maine

Programs: Feminist Action Board (high school students), Coalition Groups, Muse program (for college-aged women and nonbinary students), Camp Brilliance, Ruckus Roundtables, and G*rls Rock! Conferences