Your Support is Crucial: Help Us Continue Our Work

Dear Fast and Female Supporters,

I want to express our deepest gratitude for your continued support of Fast and Female Supporting Women in Sport Foundation. Your generosity has been instrumental in helping us with our nationwide mission of empowering girls through sport, physical activity, and education.

Coming off an incredibly successful Paris 2024 Olympic Games for Team Canada (with 18 of our medals being won by amazing women athletes), and with the 2024 Paralympic Games around the corner, we continue to see the positive impact of sport participation for girls, and how valuable it is for them to be able to see strong women role models at all levels of competition and involvement, athlete or coach. Women in sports is a movement, not a moment, and we need to ensure that the movement continues to be strong and impact our next generation of leaders. We want to continue to play a role in increasing the accessibility and quality of sport and physical activity opportunities for girls in Canada. However, even with this strong support and growing community, we continue to face challenges in the sport and charitable sector. 

The importance of our work has never been greater: 50% of girls are not participating in sport by the time they reach adolescence, and 35% of girls feel they are not expected to be good at sport, compared to 4% of boys. Yet, when girls participate in sport, they excel and become incredible leaders, with 94% of women in C-Suite leadership positions sharing that they played sports growing up. We know the value of our work and that girls in sports are empowered for life, and we need your help.

We rely on the compassion and generosity of donors like you to sustain and grow our impact. With your help, we reached over 8,000 girls in 2024 – a record-breaking year for us! 

But there is still so much more to be done.

Whether you make a one-time donation or become a monthly supporter, your gift will directly help us continue to empower girls. This includes supporting our programs like our National Youth Advisory Council (youth girls, ages 15-20), growing our new and first-of-its-kind Youth Mentorship Program for girls in sport, investing in women leaders through our Role Model program, and delivering our high-quality events and programs for girls. Every dollar makes a difference; we cannot do it without you.

Please consider supporting us today. Thank you for being a vital part of the Fast and Female family. Together, we can continue to make a difference!

With sincere appreciation,

Gabriela Estrada, Executive Director
Fast and Female Supporting Women in Sport Foundation