Volunteer Connections by Girl Scouts of Nassau County

Top Five Tips for Girl Scout Leaders Keep it FUN for the girls and for YOU.  If it isn't fun for you, it won't be fun for them!  Build a team of support for the girls and the Troop Leaders.   Most people will help if you ask, and more people will help if you give them a specific task. So, don’t be afraid to ask! Be gracious and generous to ALL the girls in your Troop and to their parents, even the parents who are difficult. Give every girl a ROLE in the Troop, and a VOICE IN THE CHOICE.   Let GIRLS LEAD at levels that are age and developmentally appropriate.   If YOUR DAUGHTER is in your Troop, help her to be part of the Troop, not your special helper. Special thanks to Joyce Wagner, Girl Scouts of Nassau County's Chief Mission Delivery Officer, for her input on this edition.

My summer experience as an intern for Girl Scouts of Nassau County. By Cathy C. Although I wasn’t a Girl Scout growing up, I was given the chance to be an intern in the Human Resource department at Girl Scouts of Nassau County allowing me to earn college credit towards my BA in Communications from Molloy College. I was overjoyed to not only learn more about my field of study in a professional setting, but to also acquire knowledge about an organization I had not been involved in when I was younger. As a student that had never experienced an internship, taking the step to apply for one, exposing me to a real world experience in my field of study, Communications, was a new challenge I was both nervous and excited to take. When I arrived at Girl Scouts of Nassau County, I was overwhelmingly welcomed as an intern for the summer of 2014 from all of the staff. I was instantly charged with a feeling of motivation to work for and learn from a company that instills courage, conf...

Senior/Ambassador Troop 836 Volunteered Time with the Navajo Nation! By Senior/Ambassador Troop 836 Senior/Ambassador Girl Scout Troop 836 from Rockville Centre had an amazing time volunteering in the Navajo Nation.   We spent 7 days in Tuba City, Arizona helping, learning and laughing.   We had been planning for a “big” trip for 5 years, but it wasn’t until the beginning of this year that we decided to go to the Navajo Nation.   We participated in Mags&Munchies , sold Girl Scout Cookies , ran activity days and hosted a tag sale all to raise money towards our goal. The cost of our trip was $1,381 per girl, so we wanted to raise as much money as possible to off-set the cost of the trip… in the end we ended up earning about $800 from the different money earning opportunities in which we participated. We planned our trip through Amizade Global Service Learning. We volunteered in the St. Jude's Food Bank and Garden in Tuba City where we stocked shelves, rep...