B-GILD
BGILD is our leadership program created just for Black girls ages 12–18.
We know you’re already a leader in your own way and this program is here to build on that. Through mentoring, workshops, community projects, and skill-building opportunities, BGILD helps you grow your voice, own your power, and lead with confidence; in school, in your community, and wherever life takes you.
Become a valued member and help us transform lives in need.
A healing-centered leadership experience for Black girls ages 12 to 18 – building confidence, resilience, skills, and real community impact.
This is our year-long journey. Girls grow step by step.
Six-week Identity Intensive
Six-month Leadership Deep Dive with a track choice
- Twelve-month SDG community service and impact project
- Mentoring and sisterhood support throughout
- Girls remain connected as alumnae after completing the journey
Six-week Identity Intensive
Six-month Leadership Deep Dive with a track choice
- Twelve-month SDG community service and impact project
- Mentoring and sisterhood support throughout
- Girls remain connected as alumnae after completing the journey
Girls create
A personal identity reflection
A voice practice (speech, story, presentation, or creative work)
- A simple wellbeing plan
Mentoring and sisterhood support throughout
- A next-steps goal for the next 90 days
Girls build leadership skills and choose a focus area. Core skills include decision-making, teamwork, communication, problem-solving, and advocacy.
- A leadership growth plan
- A track portfolio or mini project
- A community issue map (what needs to change and why)
- Choose a real community problem
Connect it to a Sustainable Development Goal
- Design a solution
- Mobilize peers and community support
- Measure progress with simple indicators
- Share results and lessons learned in a final showcase
How change happens (Five Pathways to Transformational Leadership)
Pathway 1: Identity, Confidence and Voice
Black girls are often socialized to silence and self-doubt. GLC intentionally rebuilds self-belief through leadership identity formation, storytelling, grounding, and sisterhood modeling.
Short-term: Increased confidence, stronger identity, greater willingness to speak and self-advocate.
Long-term: Girls who see themselves as leaders and take initiative in community and civic spaces.
Pathway 2: Healing and Resilience
Leadership without healing is unsustainable. GLC integrates mental health literacy, stress management, emotion regulation, and collective care into every session.
Short-term: Reduced isolation, improved emotional regulation, healthier coping strategies.
Long-term: Resilient leaders who prioritize wellbeing as part of their leadership identity.
Pathway 3: Leadership Competencies and Tracks
GLC develops practical leadership competencies through critical thinking, decision-making, collaboration, and advocacy. Girls choose from three specialized tracks aligned with their passions and career interests.
- Entrepreneurship Leadership: entrepreneurial mindset, opportunity identification, financial literacy, value creation
- Political Leadership: understanding power structures and governance, public speaking, debate, community mobilization
- Technology Leadership: digital literacy, cyber safety, coding and AI awareness, design thinking, tech-enabled social impact
Pathway 4: Community Service and Social Impact
GLC connects leadership to action through SDG-aligned community projects. Girls identify local problems, design solutions, mobilize peers, and measure impact.
Pathway 5: Global Exposure and Sisterhood
Through virtual exchanges and Global Trek experiences, girls gain cross-cultural competency, access to mentors, exposure to universities and industries, and transnational sisterhood networks that prepare them for global futures.
The result: Girls prepared for higher education, public leadership, and entrepreneurship – equipped with the confidence, skills, and networks to become the change agents their communities need.
Girls Lead Change protects girls through clear rules, trained adults, and confidential reporting. Adults complete safeguarding training and follow boundaries.
