Volunteer Connections by Girl Scouts of Nassau County

We all know that the Girl Scout Cookie Season can be a hectic one… girls (with adult supervision of course) are out there “pounding the pavement” trying to sell as many boxes of cookies as they can to reach their goal.   Cookie Season doesn’t start until January 4, 2014, but what are some things we can do now to prepare ourselves and make January a little easier? 1) Troops should be setting GOALS and discussing plans for their Cookie Proceeds.   What is your Troop going to do with the money you earn from the Girl Scout Cookie Program?   -- Community service?   A Take Action Project?   A camping excursion?   Saving for a "big trip?" -- How many Cookies need to be sold to meet those goals? 2) Okay Troop Cookie Managers… now is the time to attend your Association’s Cookie Manager Training Session. These will be taking place at the end of November and early December. Emails will be going out soon (if they haven’t already) regarding date, time and pla...

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Last month, some lucky Girl Scouts had the opportunity to meet entrepreneur and B.R.A. Founder, Kathleen Kirkwood.   Ms. Kirkwood narrated the story of her career as model and an entrepreneur, painting a picture of what it took for her to get where she is today.   She told the girls how she realized that while she could earn money being a model overseas, she was never going to be a "supermodel," and wanted to come back to the US to be near her family.    Ms. Kirkwood's latest venture, B.R.A., the Bra Recycling Agency, involves recycling all the parts of a bra and then turning most of the waste into carpet padding.   She explained some of the technical problems that she had to address in making the recycling of products involving fabric, steel and plastic doable. Girls learned a valuable lesson of resiliency and not taking the word “no” for an answer. Ms. Kirkwood also demonstrated that recycling costs money,   a fact that is often hidden when w...

Here is a truly inspiring PSA created by Girl Scout Hannah H as part of Girl Scouts Speak Out PSA Contest. It lets girls know that there is strength in numbers and that girls do have the power to help bring an end to bullying. How will you end bullying?  See more girl-made PSAs or create your own at speakout.girlscouts.org .

Okay, I want you to open a new web browser window and go to Google.com.   Once you have Google open, type in the search bar “Women should be.” Take a look at the autofill that goes along with “Women should be”.   What do you see? According to a survey of Google Autofill results surveyed by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women, the most commonly searched words along with the phrases “Women should,” “Women should not,” “Women can,” and women cannot” indicate stereotypical views of women. According the UN Women's research, some of the most commonly searched phrases were “Women shouldn’t have rights,” “Women should be slaves,” and “Women need to be controlled.” ( http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2013/10/women-should-ads ) How does this make you feel? As part of Girl Scouts of Nassau County’s Media Program, we asked a group of 5 th and 6 th grade girls what they thought about the UN Women’s research and here is what some of t...

One year after Superstorm Sandy, Girl Scouts stand together to remember the impact we can have on a community and the importance of being a sister to every Girl Scout!