Girl Scouts San Diego

Calling all high school-age Girl Scouts! 📢 Are you ready to make a difference in your community and develop your leadership skills? Join the San Diego Unified for Democracy: 2024 Election Cycle Project!✅ This non-partisan project is all about empowering students to engage in civil discourse, fact-check and identify bias, debate and focus on key issues, and be well-informed and actively engaged in democratic processes like voting.🗳️ San Diego Unified for Democracy is looking to form student groups representing every high school in the San Diego Unified School District to help design and lead this project.📝 Potential activities include, art contests, social media campaigns, student-led discussion forums, inter-school civic engagement competitions, and voter registration drives. Interested in joining? Fill out the interest form at the following link and be part of the first virtual brainstorming and workshopping session: https://lnkd.in/gYr24prW

At Girl Scouts San Diego, we don’t let anything stop us – even a Friday the 13th event date!🌟 On Sept. 13, join 400+ guests for Urban Campout: Fortune Favors the Bold. We invite you to explore our Balboa campus, enjoy camp favorites like archery and s’mores, and bid on exciting auction items – all while supporting the mission of Girl Scouts. For this year’s theme, celebrate how ‘Fortune Favors the Bold,’ as we honor the Girl Scout way of taking chances, trying new things, and making our own luck.🔮 Join us for an unforgettable evening of mystique, magic, and outdoor entertainment.✨ Single tickets, tables, and sponsorships are available now! Learn more at https://lnkd.in/g2Qinvsx.

We join the San Diego community in mourning the loss of Dea Hurston, a theatre advocate and member of a three-generation Girl Scout family. Dea was committed to advancing inclusion and diversity efforts by focusing on mentoring women, providing children with access to the arts, and employing artists of color. In 2018, she was named a Girl Scouts San Diego's Cool Women Honoree.    We are grateful for her dedication to opening doors for young girls, specifically from communities of color, and admire the legacy she leaves in our region! 💚

We are excited to share an update on the 2025 Girl Scout Cookie Program!🍪 In preparation for the 2025 cookie season, beginning on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025 across San Diego and Imperial counties, we have entered an agreement with ABC Bakers as our new partner baker!👩🍳    This means, Girl Scouts and their cookie customers can look forward to a new cookie lineup with easy-to-recognize fan favorites, featuring nine varieties of America’s Most Beloved Cookies—Trefoils®, Thin Mints®, Peanut Butter Patties®, Caramel deLites®, Peanut Butter Sandwich, Caramel Chocolate Chip (gluten-free certified), Toast-Yay!®, Lemonades®, and Adventurefuls®.💚     ⭐Read details on this new partnership for GSSD and learn more about ABC Bakers’ cookie lineup: https://lnkd.in/gfaWBkjp!   📢 Our product program team will also be hosting a virtual town hall session on Thursday, Aug. 8, 6-7 p.m. where members (Girl Scouts and adults) will have an opportunity to share and contribute their ideas for a successful transition and ask questions on this topic. Register here: https://lnkd.in/gEMeQVzQ.

To address the ever-present threat of wildfires in southern California, Girl Scouts San Diego is taking preventative steps in partnership with the San Diego River Conservancy (SDRC).🌳 We are excited to introduce you to the final phase of our vegetation plan: the installation of an emergency generator at the Camp Winacka water treatment plant.💧 This enhancement will establish the camp as a pivotal emergency response center for the Julian, CA region, ensuring continuous access to safe drinking water for CalFire during local power outages.💡 Learn more about our vegetation treatment plan and partnership with SDRC at https://lnkd.in/grZcnEzc.

This morning, our CEO Carol Dedrich and A-Trrop Girl Scouts attended the 3rd Annual Celebration of America at the San Diego Air & Space Museum, in collaboration with the Spirit of Liberty Foundation. 🗽 This celebration recognizes our everyday heroes (first responders, teachers, veterans, pastors, doctors, nurses, etc) who were in attendance to read the Declaration of Independence; Girl Scouts and Scouting America scouts who read the signers/states; American Revolution re-enactors; singing; and the Ringing of America’s Freedom Bell. ⭐️ Thank you for inviting our girls to attend this special event! Hope everyone is having a safe and fun Independence Day 🇺🇸

Save the date, San Diego's 'fun fundraiser' returns on Friday, Sept. 13.🔮 Join us for Urban Campout: Fortune Favors the Bold! 💚 It is our pleasure to introduce this year's Urban Campout co-chairs: Perette Godwin brings nearly 20 years of experience in public relations, social media, and marketing to her role as the City of San Diego’s Communications Program Coordinator and wears many hats as a GSSD volunteer. Emily Rex is the powerhouse behind Departure, a branding, marketing, and website development firm based in San Diego, and also serves as the Vice Chair of Girl Scouts San Diego’s Board of Directors. Tables, sponsorships, and underwriting opportunities are now available at https://lnkd.in/g2Qinvsx. Individual tickets will go on sale Monday, July 15. ✨

We loved welcoming Neda Iranpour to our Julian camp properties earlier this month to talk about our forestry management plan with Director of Property, Eric Williams for a CBS 8 San Diego Earth8 report. 🌲 Check out the segment to learn more about our efforts, see the air curtain burners in action, and discover how we’re leading the way in fuel reduction as the first non-government organization in San Diego County use permitted air curtain burners. ✨      Thank you to the San Diego River Conservancy (SDRC) for helping to fund a portion of this work to keep our camps safe and our forest healthy! 🌿 Learn more about our vegetation treatment plan and partnership with SDRC at https://lnkd.in/gE9MBzYc. 

Alongside our sister councils in California, we are proud to announce that 415 California Girl Scouts earned the prestigious Gold Award this year! Gold Award Girl Scouts from California spent more than 33,000 collective hours making a positive, lasting impact in their communities. Swipe to see the top issues that our Girl Scouts addressed with their Gold Award projects.   Girl Scouts from San Diego and Imperial counties make up nearly 20% of the California Gold Award Girl Scout class of 2024. We are so proud of our local Girl Scouts who are making California—and the world—a better place. Learn more and read the full press release at sdgirlscouts.org/blog. 

Congratulations to Gold Award Girl Scout Aliza for receiving the 2024 GSUSA Gold Award Scholarship! 🥳 Aliza’s project, “Slowing Down Fast Fashion with Natural Dyes,” exemplified the core components of the Gold Award and demonstrated remarkable leadership in driving meaningful change within her community and beyond.🎖️ Her goal was to raise awareness about sustainable fashion and the slow fashion movement, with a focus on educating and empowering teenagers.👕 Aliza organized workshops at a summer camp, a local farm, and her high school, where she taught participants how to create natural dyes from kitchen scraps or native plants.🌿 Megan Freeman from Coastal Roots Farm, Aliza’s community partner organization, noted that her project enhanced their offerings by providing enriching, farm-based programming for teens and information on using natural dyes for future programs. Way to go Aliza! 🎉 To learn more about the GSUSA Gold Award Scholarship, visit https://lnkd.in/eQAQQ9JU.