Strong Women Strong Girls (SWSG) is a mentoring organization for girls in grades 3–5 with a focus on female empowerment and healthy habits.
[1] and with the goal of helping them to develop skills for lifelong success.
The program was started by Lindsay Hyde while she was a high school senior in Miami, Florida and in 2000 when she moved to college, she expanded the program to be a student group at Harvard University.
[2] The program expanded throughout the greater Boston, Massachusetts area and in 2004 was incorporated as a non-profit organization with Hyde as the organization's executive director.
In 2006, SWSG launched programming in its first expansion community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania[3] and a Miami initiative followed in 2009.