Community Service Partner Guide

About Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts offers the best leadership development experience for girls in the world.

Girl Scouts’ mission is to build girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. Since 1912, girls have explored new fields of knowledge, learned valuable skills and developed strong core values through Girl Scouts.

Today, Girl Scouts is, as it always has been, the organization best positioned to help girls develop important leadership skills they need to become successful adults.

At Girl Scouts, guided by supportive adults and peers, girls develop their leadership potential through age-appropriate activities that enable them to discover their values; connect with others in a multicultural environment; and take action to make their world a better place.

All Girl Scout activities are designed to be girl-led, cooperative and hands-on— a process that creates high-quality experiences conducive to learning.

The Girl Scout Leadership Experience Our Girl Scout Leadership Experience is a one-of-a-kind leadership development program for girls, with proven results. It is based on time-tested methods and research-backed programming that help girls take the lead—in their own lives and the world.

The inclusive, all-female environment of a Girl Scout troop creates a safe space where girls can try new things, develop a range of skills, take on leadership roles and just be themselves.

Girl Scouts takes the potential of girls, combines it with robust skill-building programming, and adds caring adult mentors and strong female role models.

Service Learning In addition to traditional community service projects, our girls have the opportunity to dive deeper into a topic or issue that is important to them through one of our service learning opportunities.

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