Volunteer Connections by Girl Scouts of Nassau County

We have an exciting year ahead! Throughout 2016, we will celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouting’s top award, the Girl Scout Gold Award. Across our Movement and over the years, millions of alumnae have earned the Golden Eagle of Merit, the Golden Eaglet, the Curved Bar, First Class and the Gold Award. Over one hundred of our girl members are currently working to attain the Girl Scout Gold Award. During this centennial year, we will focus on the many benefits of earning the Girl Scout Gold Award. According to the GSRI study Girl Scouting Works: The Alumnae Impact Study (2012), Girl Scout Gold Award recipients reap greater benefit from their time and experiences in Girl Scouting than non-alumnae. Comparatively, these individuals display more positive life outcomes pertaining to sense of self, life satisfaction, leadership, life success, community service, and civic engagement. Girl Scout Gold Award recipients represent our most successful and engaged—and happiest—Gir

Girl Scouts of Nassau County Salutes Our Community Partners GSNC has hundreds of community partners, including every public school district, most private and religious schools, local colleges and universities, other not-for-profit organizations, as well as government and corporate supporters and many small businesses. This is the second in a series of articles that will focus on some of our partner organizations.   DHL, Operation Cookie and a Commitment to Community For more than a decade, DHL has partnered with the Girl Scouts of Nassau County to ship 600,000 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies—that adds up to literally ten million cookies!— to service men and women across the world through Operation Cookie. A worldwide leader in shipping and logistics, DHL has made social responsibility a key piece of its strategy. By leveraging its core competency—international shipping—DHL makes an impact across the globe by connecting people and coordinating the smooth delivery of innumerable

Girl Scout Week is March 6-12, 2016 Girl Scout Week is celebrated each March. It starts with Girl Scout Sunday and ends with Girl Scout Sabbath on a Saturday. It always includes the Girl Scout Birthday, March 12th, the day in 1912 when Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the first 18 girl members in Savannah, Georgia. Don’t let the week pass without earning your Girl Scout Week patch and learning so much more along the way! Let's Celebrate! All Day! All Week! Girl Scout Week Calendar Commemorate this special week by taking the challenge! Complete at least one activity from each day of the Girl Scout Week calendar.  Learn more about the Girl Scout Week Calendar. Connecting Girl Scouts with their Faiths The 104th Birthday of Girl Scouting (March 12th) begins with Girl Scout Sunday on Sunday, March 6th and ends with Girl Scout Sabbath/Shabbat on Saturday, March 12th. What better time to review the ways we can link Girl Scouts with their Faiths. Learn how Girl Scouts

Every day on social media, Girl Scouts are showcasing amazing Take Action projects, exciting Troop adventures and memorable Girl Scout moments. Are you one of those Girl Scouts? Next time you post, try including a Girl Scout hashtag(#) in your post so you can be part of the bigger Girl Scout conversation. #GirlScoutsGiveBack – use when posting pictures or talking about your Girl Scouts giving back to the community through community service projects or Take Action Projects. #GirlScoutsRock – use when posting pictures or talking about Girl Scouts Awesomeness… anything that involves fun, friends and making a difference, this is the hashtag to use. #GirlScoutsForever - use when posting pictures or talking about your Girl Scout sisters and the memories you’ve made. #BlingyourBooth – Is your Troop taking part in the Bling Your Booth contest? Be sure to use this hashtag to show others what your Blinged-out Cookie Booth looks like. #CookieBoss - Showcase your Girl Scout

N ational Girl Scout Cookie Weekend is February 26 th -28th! Girl Scouts and Non-Girl Scouts alike can join in on the fun and festivities on National Girl Scout Cookie Day! Girl Scouts can celebrate with us by hosting a Cookie Booth Sale, a Cookie Walkabout, or simply going door-to-door that day with your Girl Scout Cookie Order Form. Not a Girl Scout, well you can still participate in the day’s festivities. When Girl Scouts sell Girl Scout Cookies®, they are building practical life skills such as Goal Setting, Decision Making, Money Management, People Skills and Business Ethics… skills that will help them be successful in life and become the leaders of tomorrow!   Here are some ways to take part in National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend… Hold a Cookie Booth Sale- a booth sale is when a Troop sets up a table or booth at a public location and displays and sells boxes of cookies directly to customers, allowing them to eat Girl Scout Cookies right away. So get out there an

World Thinking Day 2016 is February 22. Every year, on February 22nd, Girl Scouts and Girl Guides all over the world celebrate World Thinking Day. We honor our sister Girl Guides and Girl Scouts by taking the time to think about and give thanks for our international friends and to remember that Girl Scouts of Nassau County isn’t the only group of Girl Scouts out there; that we are part of a larger community of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides. This year, the World Thinking Day theme is “Connect.”   Try some of these activities with your Troop to honor our sister Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world… Earn your World Thinking Day Award by exploring this year’s theme, “Connect!” Girl Scouts of all ages can participate in World Thinking Day. Checkout the list of activities by grade level.    Come down to the GSNC Shop and join us for our World Thinking Day Scavenger Hunt.Those who complete the scavenger hunt will receive a special gift. Now through February