2000

  • Lindsay Hyde founds Strong Women, Strong Girls as a student group of the Phillips Brooks House Association at Harvard University. The program begins working in two elementary school sites & engages six college volunteer mentors.

2001

  • Strong Women, Strong Girls gains national recognition among young women when it is featured in Seventeen Magazine.

2003

  • Requests from parents, teachers, and principals support the rapid growth of Strong Women, Strong Girls from serving 30 girls to serving over 100 girls in the Greater Boston area.
  • Strong Women, Strong Girls is featured in Glamour Magazine, publicizing its efforts to empower women and girls

2004

  • Strong Women, Strong Girls launches as a nonprofit agency! This expansion brings new partnerships with college and universities, as well as expanded programming.

2006

  • Working in partnership with Carnegie Mellon University, Strong Women, Strong Girls launches the organization’s first replication site in Pittsburgh, PA and transitions from a local to national movement.

2007

  • Strong Women, Strong Girls is chosen as a Social Innovator by Root Cause’s Social Innovation Forum.
  • Support for the movement builds when Strong Women, Strong Girls is featured on NBC News and in the Boston Globe.
  • Strong Women, Strong Girls launches a strengthened, simplified and streamlined outcomes measurement system in order to gather clear and compelling data capturing program achievements and highlighting areas for program improvements.
  • Founder Lindsay Hyde receives the Jefferson Award for her work on Strong Women, Strong Girls and joins the likes of Steve Jobs, Alan Khazei and Wendy Kopp.

2008

  • The first annual Jump Into Spring event engages Strong Women, Strong Girls’ Boston community with John Kerry as the keynote speaker.
  • Strong Women, Strong Girls builds more momentum when it is featured at the Coca-Cola North America National Executive Summit and as an exemplary program through the Solomon McCown Mission Recognition program.
  • Lynne Garfinkel, Pittsburgh Executive Director, is invited throw out the first pitch at a Pittsburgh Pirates game.

2009

  • Strong Women, Strong Girls expands to its third location- South Florida.
  • Strong Women, Strong Girls is featured at the National Coalition for Girls Schools Annual Conference.  Lindsay Hyde is recognized with the Women of Achievement Award, previously accepted by Sally Ride and Cokie Roberts.
  • Strong Women, Strong Girls Pittsburgh is recognized with the Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania award.

2010

  • Strong Women, Strong Girls launches its AmeriCorps program through Volunteer Florida and joins the national service movement.
  • Strong Women, Strong Girls is featured in the Miami Herald for its exemplary work in Florida.
  • Strong Women, Strong Girls touches over 1,100 lives in three cities!