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Florida Blue & Pace Center for Girls – A Partnership Impacting Girls and Communities Across Florida
If the past year and a half has taught us anything, we’ve learned everyone can play a role in creating a more just and equitable society. For more...
11.18.2021
Listening To Their Voices: Pace Girls Lead Efforts To Help Advance Equity And Program Impact
In recent years, there has been a growing push for nonprofits to move to a participatory feedback model. But what does that look like in practice?...
11.01.2021
Teachers are Being Called on to Support Students Total Wellbeing
As our team members work diligently to support our girls, we have seen positivity and ingenuity through adoption of remote educational and social...
10.08.2021
How Listening to Constituents Can Lead to Systems Change
More and more nonprofits and funders are seeking participant feedback because, while experimental measures can surface the “what” of change,...
08.18.2021
Community-Based Program Helps Girls Reach Their Full Potential
By: Aggie Pappas in partnership with The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Originally published by The Office of Juvenile Justice...
08.16.2021
Second Harvest collects 70K+ period products for girls, women in need
Second Harvest of the Big Bend announced Wednesday the food bank has sourced more than 70,000 period products to distribute to girls and women in...
08.04.2021
Florida group that helps at-risk girls gets $350,000 from state lawmakers to open in SC
Pace Center for Girls has received $350,000 from the South Carolina General Assembly to expand into South Carolina this fall and hire therapists to...
07.22.2021
Pace Center for Girls set Precedent with Juneteenth celebration
Pace Center for Girls, Alachua has long recognized Juneteenth, but with the addition of the day as a Federal holiday, the Center took the step of...
06.18.2021
First Coast Healthiest Companies Awards Pace Fit Program Platinum Award
Pace Center for Girls, Pace Fit wellness program, has taken home the First Coast Healthiest Companies Platinum Level award for the second year in a...
06.16.2021
Constituent Feedback: Pace Center for Girls – Why is listening, reflecting and acting on feedback mission critical?
At Pace Center for Girls, we understand that, for girls to change their lives, they and their families must have a voice in shaping their present and...
06.14.2021
‘The needs have grown substantially.’ Pace Center for Girls in Bradenton plans expansion
Shrouded by trees at the corner of 26th Street West and 36th Avenue West, the local Pace Center for Girls could easily be overlooked. The...
06.12.2021
Improving Teen Mental Health is Critical for Healthy Long-Term Growth & Development
The COVID-19 pandemic intensified an existing societal issue that has been on the rise for years: teen depression. Over the past three decades,...
05.27.2021