Girls for a Change

"To empower girls to embrace their future, confident about their individuality, supported by friends, parents, and mentors and secure in their ability to lead and to achieve self-sufficiency, fulfillment and success."

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Girls for a Change
in collaboration with
THRIVE
400 East Babcock
P.O. Box 4325
Bozeman, MT 59772
406-587-3840
fax: 406-586-9376

girls from core committee

Molly Cech

My name is Molly Cech and I will be a sophomore at BHS. I was first introduced to Girls For A Change a few years back when I went to a retreat to recruit new committee members. that year I helped plan the conference that Eve Ensler spoke at and I loved every minute of it. I liked how I was able to meet many new people who also helped plan the conference and how at the end we all seemed like family to each other. Girls For A Change has really taught me a lot about myself and the world I live in.

Haleigh Larmer

My name is Haleigh Larmer and I am a sophmore at Bozeman High school. I have been involved with GFAC for two years and I plan to continue with it all through high school. This inspiring organization has helped me with leadership, self-confidence, and independence. I love meeting new people and helping girls of all ages realize their full potential in life and all that they can acomplish in life. GFAC gives me such a rewarding feeling for showing people what other girls and I am able to achieve through perserverance, and determination, and just having fun.

Shannon McCleary

My name is Shannon McCleary. I'm 14 years old and a soon to be freshman at Bozeman High School. My first encounter with Girls for a Change was in 2005 when they were recruiting at my middle school. I was immediatly impressed by both their goal to empower girls and the proffesionalism in which it was carried out. Since joining in 2006 I've realized further the truth of these impressions and the incredible dedication of the members. GFAC has tought me to better prioritize as well as the fact that work can actually be fun if the end result is truely worth achieving.

Mallory Stiff

My name is Mallory Stiff and being a Girls for a Change member has changed my outlook on the world, our community, and also myself. When I joined Girls for a Change in 2005, I realized that I didn't just join a regular club or organization, I became a member of a family who not only thought that every woman and girl could change the world and their own future, but knew that it would happen. Ever since I was welcomed into this group of loving women, I found that I can have the courage to speak before hundreds of people, to become friends with girls from other cliques, to believe in my future, to love my body no matter what I see in magazines, to listen and learn from older AND younger girls, and to teach other girls what I have learned. Most important of all, I have learned that even I, Mallory Stiff, an 11th grader from a small town in Montana, could change Earth and the people who live on it.

Click here for speech given by Mallory at a fundraiser sponsored by Doug Loneman at the Doug Loneman Studio on May 9, 2008.