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Girl Scouts in 1920 from a 4x5 in glass negative. From the National Photo Company
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Untitled: Girl Scouts Learn Financial Literacy
By Leigh Wilk January 6, 2012
Most often when you ask any Girl Scout what they want to do with their money, They answer they will give is “save it.” Girl Scouts are taught from day one to save for college, careers and homes. The Girl Scouts of American have 13 financial…
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IGNITE is the official theme song for Girl Scouts Nation’s Capital, Rock the Mall, 100th Anniversary Sing-Along Celebration on June 9, 2012!
This sing-along video was designed along with Dance Flash Mob moves for over 200,000 dancers! In fact, the Guinness Book of World Records has been asked to be present at what we intend to be the biggest Flash Mob ever! Meanwhile, learn the melody and words here for the Rock the Mall Celebration, JUNE 9, 2012! The Flash Mob instructional dance video is to follow!
Written by Melinda Caroll, the song features the voices of up and rising young singing stars, Ani Hesse, Malia Lane, Kalehua Katagiri and Kalia Medeiros!
My Gold Award ceremony in 2010!
The Norwegian Legend of the Friendship Knot
There once lived, in Norway, facing the North Sea, a fisherman and his daughter. The child was lonely. All day, and long into the evening, her father was on the water, fishing. Her mother had died when she was only five years old. She was alone so much of the time. To help her idle away the lonely hours, her father taught her the art of knotting, lacing and braiding, and she spent many a happy hour doing this work. Her favorite knot was one her father called the Knot of Friendship. It fascinated her because it looked so much like a four-leaf clover which she had read about, and which was supposed to bring much luck to a person who found one. She was fascinated also because she could not understand what friendship was. Her father could not explain “friendship”. He could not relate it to a person, place or thing.
He could say only that a friend was “good”, “kind”, “sincere”, and so on. These things she understood. When the child was eleven years old, the sea claimed the life of her father and she was sent into the city to live with an elderly distant relative. The woman did not understand the needs of a young child, and once again she was lonely and afraid. Across the street from the house in which she lived was a small park, and each week the child watched a group of young people gather there. They all looked so happy and there was so much laughter and singing. She decided that the next week she would go and sit on the bench and be there when the girls arrived… so the very next week she was sitting on the bench when the group came down the walk. She watched and listened and found it was a group of Girl Guides, and they were working with a map and compass. All seemed unaware that she was even around. In her deep interest in what was going on, she didn’t see the tall blond girl leave the group and come to her bench. Only when the girl said, “Come join us and be our friend”, did she become conscious that she was there. There was the magic word “friendship”.
Now, perhaps she would learn what it meant. Time passed. The child did join the group, and did become their friend. One lovely evening during a campfire ceremony, the child presented to each member of the group a light blue rope necktie, and in one end of each she had carefully made her knot of friendship as her token of love and friendship. She finally understood the word “friend”.
Versfelt, age 20, who has Down Syndrome, was one of 10 young women and girls chosen to represent the different levels of Girl Scouting on the flower be-decked float that was part of yesterday’s big parade. Each float rider was selected based on their Girl Scout history, accomplishments and achievements in community service, according to a Girl Scout website.
2012 is Year of the Girl
In a move designed to focus national attention on girls and the issues they face, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has declared 2012 the Year of the Girl: a celebration of girls, recognition of their leadership potential, and a commitment to creating a coalition of like-minded organizations and individuals in support of balanced leadership in the workplace and in communities across the country.
The announcement comes as GSUSA assumes new leadership under CEO Anna Maria Chávez and prepares to celebrate its centennial in 2012, using this important moment in its history to launch a major initiative to change the landscape for girls and young women. The initiative, which also includes the largest fundraising and advocacy campaign dedicated to girls’ issues in the nation’s history, will be formally announced in January and will extend well beyond the Year of the Girl in 2012.
“The Year of the Girl is only a beginning,” said GSUSA Chief Executive Officer Anna Maria Chávez. “We can’t transform American leadership in a year, but we can transform expectations in a year. We can transform awareness in a year. We can set in motion a generational change, and make certain that a baby girl born in 2012 will experience her life in a new and vastly different world. Only Girl Scouts, with its scale and time-honored place in society, can launch this initiative. If not us, who? If not now, when? When girls succeed, so does society. We know that together, we can get her there.”
This declaration serves as the foundation for Girl Scouts’ broader, multiyear, multipronged effort to break down societal barriers that hinder girls from leading and achieving success in everything from technology and science to business and industry.
During the Year of the Girl, local Girl Scout offices nationwide will mix celebrations of the organization’s 100 years as the premier leadership experience for girls with efforts to create a sense of urgency around girls’ issues.
“Girl Scouts is at the forefront of building girl leaders, GSUSA National President Connie L. Lindsey said. “We embrace the opportunity we have to develop the next generation and future generations of leaders that understand the interconnectedness of the global community. Our girls will understand that they matter. And when they dream their future, they see a world of shared leadership: where the values of courage, confidence, and character really do make the world a better place.”
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“When you educate a boy, you educate an individual. When you educate a girl, you educate a community.” -African Proverb
Happy Holidays From Anna Maria Chávez and Connie L. Lindsey
Girl Scouts of the USA’s CEO Anna Maria Chávez and National Board President of Girl Scouts of the USA Connie Lindsey wish everyone out there Happy Holidays!
MissRepresentation
Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the film exposes how mainstream media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence in America. The film challenges the media’s limited and often disparaging portrayals of women and girls, which make it difficult for women to achieve leadership positions and for the average woman to feel powerful herself.
In a society where media is the most persuasive force shaping cultural norms, the collective message that our young women and men overwhelmingly receive is that a woman’s value and power lie in her youth, beauty, and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader. While women have made great strides in leadership over the past few decades, the United States is still 90th in the world for women in national legislatures, women hold only 3% of clout positions in mainstream media, and 65% of women and girls have disordered eating behaviors.
Stories from teenage girls and provocative interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, activists and academics, like Condoleezza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem build momentum as Miss Representation accumulates startling facts and statistics that will leave the audience shaken and armed with a new perspective.
The film Miss Representation exposes how American youth are being sold the concept that women and girls’ value lies in their youth, beauty and sexuality. It’s time to break that cycle of mistruths.
In response we created MissRepresentation.org, a call-to-action campaign that seeks to empower women and girls to challenge limiting labels in order to realize their potential.
We are uniting individuals around a common, meaningful goal to spark millions of small actions that ultimately lead to a cross-generational movement to eradicate gender stereotypes and create lasting cultural and sociological change.
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