Make the GNO store the place everyone wants to shop! Help us purchase items the girls really want to buy (iTunes cards, snacks, nail polish, anime, accessories, and personal requests!) and you can help girls reach their potential. Stocking the store with stuff they want means they will work to earn more bucks, and thus meet their goals!

Peer volunteers earn community service for participating in GNO intervention groups. This means spending their evening once a week with GNO for 8-12 weeks and some responsibilities between meetings. Peers incur some expenses by participating in activities and meet at a variety of community locations. Help make this incredible experience available to young girls trying to make a difference!

GNO includes a variety of materials designed to support skill building within GNO sessions and to increase the likelihood participants engage in social and self-care skills throughout their day. Each participant receives a GNO planner, which includes information on targeted skills and personalized supports to increase independence and achieve goals (steps and pictures, goals, tips). Girls get tips for conversation starters at each session and to use outside of GNO.

Help us provide ongoing social events and opportunities for girls to build relationships. Community events allow past, present, or future GNO participants to make new friends, boost social skills, and feel success within a social activity and connecting with other girls. Help us build lasting relationships with community partners. (Thank you Bare Minerals, Paul Mitchell The School, and Kirmayer Fitness for years of hosting GNO!)

Help support participants who cannot afford the program but who really need a Girls Night Out. Intervention groups include 8-10 girls that meet weekly at locations throughout our community. This is sometimes the only social activity on their calendar for the week and provides an opportunity to connect with others and establish relationships.

Help create opportunities that can make a meaningful and lasting impact in the lives of girls with autism and related disabilities, their families, and our community. Imagine the potential impact for a young woman with autism if these types of supports and connections began in elementary school and continued across development.