Girls of Virtue 5k

🏃‍♀️ Race Overview

Join us on Saturday, August 9th, in downtown Jacksonville for the Girls of Virtue 5K & 1M Races. This will be the third year for our fundraising race event, and we are celebrating our fifth year as a ministry. All monies raised will benefit our non-profit organization, Girls of Virtue.

🌟 Our Mission

• Empowerment: Empower and Equip the next generation to be spiritually, mentally, physically, and financially grounded.

👩‍👧 Who We Are

• Community: Girls of Virtue has created a community for young women to have a safe environment.
• Life Skills: We teach the proper skills they need to face today’s complex generation.
• Mentorship: Instilling life skills through mentorship, workshops, and education.

💔 Our WHY

Today, our young women meet difficulty transitioning into adulthood. Traditional schools don’t provide classes on financial literacy, credit, business and professional skills, or any resources that prepare us to succeed. Situations like homelessness, bouncing throughout the foster care system, poverty, trauma, and difficult home circumstances escalate the complexity. To say the least, our youth are facing many challenges as they navigate their teens and young adult life.

🚀 What We Do

Our program has three levels: ENGAGE, EQUIP, and EMPOWER.

• ENGAGE: We provide bi-monthly workshops at three local dropout prevention high schools and weekly workshops at middle/high schools.
• EQUIP: Additional workshops offered after school, on weekends, online, and through local partners.
• EMPOWER: Our Executive Life Skills Pilot, launched in 2024 with a three-year plan.

We selected five ladies who displayed what we call GRIT and had been working with me for a couple of years. Each young woman was given a mentor and access to obtaining a vocational trade in the first year.

In year two, they will be provided one-on-one coaching in mental health and proactive emotions and healing, financial planning, budgeting and investing, nutrition and health coaching, and their spiritual walks to ensure their identities are rooted in who God says they are.

Then, in year three, they will begin to mentor the next young women in the program, help within our high school outreach, and receive mentoring and education in leadership, personal and professional development, and leaning into the callings on their lives.

We believe that together, we can UNITE our city and empower and equip the next generation. Please join us as we run into the next year and fight for the youth in our city.

📅 Event Details

• Date: August 9, 2025
• Location: 221 Riverside Ave - Winston YMCA, Jacksonville, FL
• Registration: Register here.