GSWO Blog

A Resource for all things GSWO

Blog

·

Girl Scouts Goes Digital With My GS!

Are you ready to go digital with My GS?!

My GS is part of a national resource launched by GSUSA that contains the Volunteer Toolkit, a digital resource for planning your Girl Scout year. It also contains Member Profile (a member community that gives all our members online access to their member profile, contact details and membership renewal) and My Activities where they can register for council-sponsored Girl Scout activities! It’s all in one place, under the My GS tab at gswo.org!

What’s so great about My GS? We’re so glad you asked!

This awesome resource is helping Girl Scout volunteers, girls, and parents across the nation leave the stack of papers behind as they go digital ...
Continue Reading

·

Girl Scout National Convention 2017: A Girl’s Perspective

Calling all Ohio Girl Scouts, national convention is coming to Columbus in 2017. And, as usual with Girl Scouts, we’ve got our girls helping plan this momentous occasion! Who are these girls? They’re 21 girls from 13 different states who make up the convention girl planning committee. Seven of them hail from the great state of Ohio (and two from our own council). These girls have been diligently brainstorming and ...
Continue Reading

·

Girl Scout Adult Trainings: Save the Date!

Have you ever wanted to expand your outdoor skills BEFORE you take your girls camping? Guide your girls through their Highest Awards project like a pro? Learn how to belay on our climbing walls? Confidently manage your troop finances? We’ve got all of these and more this year with some great adult ...
Continue Reading

·

Add Some Girl Scout Traditions to Your Year!

Girl Scouts are part of a global sisterhood, rich with shared traditions and activities that have been delighting girls and volunteers for over 100 years.Why not explore those traditions and share them with your girls this troop year? Sounds like an excellent idea, right? But if you’re not a big walking encyclopedia of Girl Scout traditions, how do you find some good ones to try? Don’t worry, we’ve got you ...
Continue Reading

·

5 Ways to Connect with Families in the New Girl Scout Year

As you’re preparing for a new school year it’s time to start thinking about your new Girl Scout year. What amazing things will your girls do? What new skills will they master? How will you connect with your families in a way that supports what your troop does? Wait, why are you talking about the family? This is a girl-focused organization, right? Right, but those girls come attached to families and the level of ...
Continue Reading

Share this post
Filed Under: Parents

·

You Might Be a Girl Scout If…

Ask a Girl Scout what she loved about her years as a member and you’re likely to get a variety of stories and experiences with some common themes like friendship, fun, and life skills binding us all together. What can we say? When you’re a girl-led organization, the experience is going to be as unique as the girls themselves.

And yet for all of the differences we’ve found a few things that if your answer is yes, it’s pretty likely you might be a ...
Continue Reading

Share this post
Filed Under: Girls

·

Discover Girl Scout Journeys!

Are you ready to go on a journey of discovery with Girl Scouts? To identify a problem in your community and put a plan into action to make a difference? If that’s you, then we’ve got the perfect Girl Scout resource for you: the Journeys!

These important resources allow girls to discover more about the world around them by guiding them as they dive into a topic related to the Journey’s ...
Continue Reading

·

Girl Scouts Works — Ask Our Alumnae!

Here at Girl Scouts we define ourselves as the preeminent leadership development organization for girls. We’re 2.7 million strong—1.9 million girls and 800,000 adults—and we’re dedicated to building courageous and confident girls who make our world a better place.

How do we know Girl Scouts does all we say it does? How do we know Girl Scouts works? Let’s look at our more than 59 million alumnae and find our answer!

First, the Numbers

Continue Reading