National Cookie Weekend Events
Celebrate February 27-March 1 with your own Girl Scout Cookie party or flash mob, or join GSSI's celebration at the Evansville Icemen hockey game on Saturday, February 28. Order tickets from the Icemen. Learn the flash mob dance.
National Cookie Weekend Patches
Patches are available to girls who participate in any cookie-themed event between February 27 and March 1. Patches can be purchased for $3 each, in person or by calling GSSI's council shop, 812.421.4970. Patches will also be sold at the Ford Center on Feb. 28.
Global Action Award
The Girl Scout Global Action Award, developed in partnership with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), is an exciting and enriching way for Girl Scouts, from Daisies to Ambassadors, to participate in realizing the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) which aim to reduce extreme poverty and impact major world concerns by 2015. By earning the Global Action Award, girls can learn, in a fun and educational way, about serious global issues affecting girls, young women, and their communities. Each Girl Scout who completes activities will join in WAGGGS' international movement of 10 million girls, who together are sowing the seeds of social change. The Global Action Award offers girls an opportunity to advocate for themselves and others, both locally and globally.
Plan ahead to celebrate these special days with your troops, clusters, or service units!
Each year on February 22, World Thinking Day, girls celebrate international friendships by participating in activities and projects with global themes to honor their sister Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in other countries.
Girl Scout Birthday, March 12, commemorates the day in 1912 when Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the organization's first 18 girl members in Savannah, Georgia. Plan a special birthday party or observation!
Girl Scout Week is celebrated each March, starting with Girl Scout Sunday and ending with Girl Scout Sabbath on a Saturday, and it always includes the Girl Scout Birthday, March 12. Ask your school if you can wear Girl Scout spirit attire sometime this week!
Girl Scout Sunday and Girl Scout Sabbath give girls an opportunity to attend their place of worship and be recognized as a Girl Scout. If a place of worship is the group sponsor, girls may perform a service, such as greeting, ushering, or doing a flag ceremony. These days can also be a time when girls explore other faiths. Contact Margaret Dennis, [email protected], for ideas.
Grants and Awards
generationOn has several exciting initiatives underway! Read about these great opportunities to recognize and promote girls who are making a difference in the world. Check out these programs and contact GSSI's Chief Development Officer, Pat Bateman ([email protected]), if you wish to nominate someone or apply for a grant.
Hasbro Community Action Hero 2015
The Hasbro Community Action Hero Award recognizes outstanding young volunteers who show that one is never too young to make a difference in the local or global community.
Hasbro Children's Fund and generationOn will celebrate ten young people between the ages of 5-18 for extraordinary community service and volunteer activities at a special recognition event in Los Angeles on April 18, 2015. Each winner will be awarded a $1,000 educational scholarship and a $500 grant to their selected non-profit.
A Hasbro Community Action Hero is a young person who makes an extraordinary mark on the world through service. Click here to learn more and nominate a local hero today.
Martin Richard Bridge Builder Grants
Calling all Peace Makers! Apply for a $500 grant to support kids and teens in changing their communities through kindness!
generationOn and Hasbro, in partnership with the Martin Richard Foundation, are offering thirty $500 mini-grants to encourage young people around the U.S. to take action that advances peace and kindness in their communities.
Participation is free and easy: