The Bismarck Marathon presented by MDU Resources made donations to 28 different local organizations and charities, including BIO Girls!

What a year! Our 2023 Annual Report is here. Thank you to all who volunteered, donated, sponsored, and supported our efforts to reach girls across the Midwest. 2024, here we come!

Devils Lake, ND – Hot off the presses from the Devils Lake Journal is “Newest Unsung Hero is Antoinette Sailor”. See the full article about BIO Girls volunteer, Antoinette Sailor.

Dickinson, ND — Earlier this year, Nikki Wolla teamed up with a couple of other moms in the community to launch a Dickinson chapter of BIO (Beauty Inside and Out) Girls, a Fargo-based Christian non-denominational organization.

Waconia, MN — As girls across the Midwest battle anxiety, low self-esteem and other mental health challenges, an area program determined to change this has been growing over the last decade. For Waconia, individuals are raising their hands to support our youth to teach skills and provide resources to strengthen that confidence.

BIO Girls of Jackson/Lakefield assembled plastic lumber chairs for Jackson County Schools. The project was sponsored by Bedford; the employer of BIO Girls volunteer, Kristy Thurmer, who works as a Sr. Mechanical Engineer.

BIO Girls to team with Essentia Health to host the annual Find Your Kind 5K and Youth Run in May.

The Matto Foundation has partnered with Dakota Medical Foundation in launching a new video series, “Building Resilient Kids.”

Noah Breker, a senior at Robbinsdale Armstrong High School, Plymouth, MN has been awarded the Gatorade Minnesota Cross Country Player of the Year 2022-2023 for outstanding performance in cross country. With this prestigious award, winners can designate a $1,000 grant to a 501(c)3 youth sports organization through the Play it Forward Program of the Gatorade Foundation. Breker selected Fargo, ND-based BIO Girls, Inc. to receive his grant. 

GRAND FORKS — As girls across the Midwest battle anxiety, low self-esteem and other mental health challenges, an area program determined to change this has been growing over the last decade.

Last week, the CDC released its report from the 2021 Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), which examines health behaviors and experiences among U.S. high school students.

BIO Girls Founder and Executive Director, Missy Heilman was featured on Checkable Health Podcast Episode 34: "Improving the Self-Esteem of Adolescent Girls Through Empowering of Self.”.

What a year! Our 2022 Annual Report is here. Thank you to all who volunteered, donated, sponsored and supported our efforts to reach girls across the Midwest. 2023, here we come!

5 Questions with Missy Heilman, Founder & Executive Director, and Macy Kramer, Director of Marketing of BIO Girls.

We are thrilled to be chosen as one of the beneficiaries for the 2022 Bismarck Marathon!

WADENA — A group of about 30 young girls raced through the streets of Wadena on Wednesday, July 20, with the confidence that they could finish what they started.

Devils Lake helped bring 40 girls together for their inaugural season in the community.

BIO Girls was awarded a grant funded by the FM Area Foundation to double the Fargo-Moorhead area impact! We are so grateful.

“The best part of BIO Girls) is seeing the growth in the girls," Moch said. "From them walking so timidly into the first session and they’re nervous and that kind of mentality. Now, when they come, they come running in and they’re smiling from ear-to-ear, and the other girls are cheering each other on.”

Both Moch and Hanson feel like BIO Girls is a little too good to be true sometimes. Hanson said to cheer these girls on, support them and ask them about the lessons they learned about in BIO Girls.

Running a 5K is a pretty big accomplishment. It takes training and dedication.

This week, a group of young girls completed their first 5K. They spent 12 weeks preparing as part of the BIO Girls program.

BIO Girls is short for “Beautiful Inside and Out.” The group is for adolescent girls, designed to boost self-esteem and empower girls.

The group also creates new friendships and strengthens old ones.