We Wish to Thank Our Following Community Partners: 

Partner Agency 

Help us thank and appreciate all our volunteers for all their hard work and dedication to the girls.  To help ensure a smooth transition into the new Girl Scout membership year, we ask that the service unit teams/coaches/managers help guide the troops with the checklist below.  Encourage troops to: 

• Plan an end of the year court of awards ceremony or participate in a service unit or county bridging ceremony.
• Recognize individuals and/or organizations that helped the troop during the year.
• Survey the girls and adults as to their intent on returning to the program next year.  What Journey would the girls like to work on in the future, assess what roles the parents might consider undertaking to help lead the troop.
• Renew all members Girl Scout membership for the new 2014 membership year by June 14th.
• Complete the troop's financial report, ensuring ending balances match the bank statements.  Report is due to the service unit June 30th.
• Notify service unit team and/or membership specialist of the status of the troop leadership team for the upcoming year. 

If troop leadership is changing or if troop is disbanding,

please guide the troop with steps below.

Non returning Girl Scout troop leaders and advisors

To ensure girls continue to enjoy and participate together as a troop: 

• Secure a replacement leader.  Reach out to the parents/guardians in the troop and share with them how they can remain involved with this group of girls to ensure the existence of the troop.  This will secure continuous programming for the girls.
• Keep the service unit team, coach, and membership specialist informed.  When a potential adult(s) has been identified to assume the leadership role for the troop, please pass along their contact information.  This will aide in the processing of their volunteer file (volunteer application and background check) and training.
• Secure troop supplies.  In the event that volunteers are not secured to continue the troop, please collect troop supplies.  Troop supplies include items such as: troop check book and financial report, badges and patches that the girls have earned, and any equipment/books that was purchased with Girl Scout funds.
• Promote other Girl Scout volunteer opportunities.  There are many exciting, flexible, and rewarding volunteer opportunities available that can be tailored to match skills or current schedule.  Perhaps leading a troop was not the best fit, the Volunteer Resources department will be available to explore more of these possibilities with volunteers!

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• Occasional emails just saying hello, try to start a email chain where each girl forwards to another girl on the list.
• An overnight activity to just check in with each other and maybe plan for some fall activities.
• A pool party or family picnic.
• Bowling, Skating or Movie night on a hot summers evening.
• Encourage the girls to work on badges or Journey's on their own, they can always share what they did with the troop at an upcoming meeting. They can even make their own badge. They start with the subjects that mean most to them, find ways to explore those interests, and at the end, reward themselves with a special badge that they design to represent how they earned it. Check out the gsmakeyourown.com website . Girl Scouts get to make their own badge once a year. Leaders can find the information about the "five steps" to earn the Make Your Own Badge in the back of the badge section in the Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting and share this fun summer activity with their troop.

The Family Support Plan is a family and volunteer giving campaign that makes Girl Scouting possible for all girls who want those lifelong memories that being a Girl Scout provides. We have asked you to roll out the material, encourage and help every leader make the ask to her families, but did we ask you? Every dollar gifted can make a difference. As the Service Unit Leadership Team we encourage you to think about whether being a part of Girl Scouts has mattered in your life, in a girl's life. If you believe that the memories girls are making in your service unit should be available to all girls in the future then make your own personal FSP gift.

YOU make it possible for girls to experience Girl Scouting at its best.

Please make your gift today!

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CALLING ALL GIRLS THAT LIKE TO SHOP

The Junior Sales Specialist Program is back this summer for its third year!  The Program is a week-long interactive experience where girls learn real-life job skills and become trained to volunteer in the council shops.  Girls will complete a job application, resume, cover letter, interviews, and shop training.  After completing the program, Junior Sales Specialists have the opportunity to volunteer in the shop as their schedules allow. 

Cookie Dough Shopping

or by fax to 941.923.5241

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