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Rally Your Girls, Cookie Season is Coming!

When your girls take part in the Girl Scout Cookie sale, they are doing so much more than selling delicious treats to our cookie-loving friends and neighbors. They’re building essential skills like goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics. That’s why it’s more than just another fundraiser; it’s the largest girl-led entrepreneurial program in the world!

Cookie season kicks off in January, and we know you want your girls to feel prepared and confident as they set out to reach their goals. One of the best ways to equip your troop for the Girl Scout Cookie Program is to attend a Cookie ...
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What Leaders Want Parents to Know

Troop leaders have many roles in Girl Scouts. They are cheerleaders, guides, organizers, troubleshooters, and mentors for their troop. Under their leadership, our girl members are developing life skills, building confidence, and making impacts (and friendships!) that will last a lifetime. Girl Scouts doesn’t happen without them!

As parents, you may not always see all of the time and effort your daughter’s leaders put into her Girl Scout experience or know how best to ...
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Guest Editorial: G.I.R.L. 2017 Delegate Shannon Meadows

What’s your G.I.R.L. DNA? Are you a Go-Getter? An Innovator? A Risk Taker? A Leader? If you are a Girl Scout, you are probably a bit of each and on any given day, you are more one than another. The fact is, being a G.I.R.L. is in our DNA. This was never more apparent than at the G.I.R.L. 2017 National Convention. The convention kicked off on Wednesday, October 4 at an amazing Opening Ceremony with flags representing our nation, our movement world-wide, each of our fifty states, our ...
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Take the G.I.R.L. Agenda Pledge!

Calling all troop leaders! Through your dedication to the girls you serve every day, you’ve already shown us that you believe in the power of every G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™ to stand up, speak out, and accomplish amazing things. Help us unleash that power in even more girls today by pledging to add one (or more!) girls to your troop by March 1, 2018—and ...
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Guest Editorial: Girl Scout Alumna Megan Gardam

Two years ago I was in Savannah, GA, and decided to visit Juliette Gordon Low’s grave site. I mapped out how to get there and set out on my run. The distance wasn’t far for me, but the journey that brought me there was. While there I said to her tombstone “Did you have any idea what it was that you started, and could you have ever imagined how many lives you were going to touch?”

My Girl Scout journey started in first grade and proceeded through my senior year of high school. ...
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The Challenge Courses of Girl Scouts of Western Ohio

Girl Scouts, are you ready for some thrills? Do you want to build your courage and cheer on your friends as you master obstacles and take on new heights? Then it’s time you tried one of our challenge courses!

What’s a challenge course?

Sometimes referred to as a ropes course (although not all challenge courses involve rope obstacles), our challenge courses are outdoor  activities that contain high and/or low elements depending on the course you are on (we have ...
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What Girl Scouts Means to Troop 32549

The girls in Troop 32549 understand the value Girl Scouts provides to their lives. Last winter, during the Girl Scout Cookie Program, their troop leader Kelly encouraged all of them to write out what Girl Scouts means to each of them, individually. We love all of their answers (spelling errors and all!), and couldn’t help but share them with you!

“What Girl Scouts means to me. Girl Scouts means selling cookies. Girl Scouts means having new friends. Girl Scouts ...
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Upcoming Webinars: Online Support for Busy Volunteers

It can be hectic getting your troop organized and ready to go for the year, right? To help you out, we have a few webinars on popular topics and resources to make your life a little simpler!

You’ll be able to ask questions, connect to other leaders, and learn vital information for a successful Girl Scout year! Register by using the link next to each live webinar time, or view the recorded webcast posted on ...
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