SERVICE UNIT 81

Bronze Award -  usually earned as a troop, done as a project to benefit the community or an organization in the community.  The project can benefit the Girl Scouts as the organization.  Go to www.gshnj.org for details and requirements.

  

   Ideas:

• Plan, organize, and run World Thinking Day

• Plan, organize, and run Camporee

• Contact your favorite charity or organization and ask them what help they need

• Identify a problem in your community and find a way to solve/improve it

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Silver Award - a maximum of 4 girls can work on a silver award project so a large troop may have more than one project going on simultaneously.  The project should benefit the community or an organization in the community and should carry on after the girls are finished. The project can not benefit the Girl Scouts as the organization.  Go to www.gshnj.org for details and requirements.

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    Ideas:

• Contact your favorite charity or organization and ask them what help they need

• Identify a problem in your community and find a way to solve/improve it

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Gold Award - is the highest award a girl can earn in Girl Scouts.  It is a project done individually to help the community or an organization in the community.  The project should be a new idea and should carry on after the girl is done.  The girl will use www.gogoldonline.com to write a proposal for council to approve.  Go to www.gshnj.org for details and requirements.  Below is a summary of the requirements and a list of ideas:

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      Summary of requirements:

• Must fill a need or solve a problem that is not currently being done (unique/new)

• Need must be researched (provide a few statistics)

• Team:  group of helpers must be at least 5 people (the more the better) and include both experts (a few) and a team of peers that you will lead in activities/work (to learn leadership skills).  anyone who even helps with one small part of the project is considered a team member - keep track of everyone who helps and list them!

• Budget has to balance to $0 and hours have to be 80+ (don't put too many hours into planning/working at home alone - try to have most of the hours interacting with the community/your team.  Also paperwork hours and fundraising hours do not count towards the project).

• Community connection: Must work with,interact with, and/or educate  members of the community for a large part of the hours  (i.e. not at home doing work alone). 

• Global connection: let newspaper or internet spread the word about your project (or any relevant organizations).

• Measurable Impact: try to have something that can be quantified like survey results or actually measure how much better at something the target audience is after your project or have quotes of experts saying how much better things are after your project

• Sustainable:  needs to carry on after you are done or at least be very likely to carry on after you are done.  Create a guide on paper and/or online or provide materials and give to the people who will likely carry it on.  try to get someone or some group to carry it on..

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    Ideas:

• Contact your favorite charity or organization and ask them what help they need 

• Contact the organizations on the Service A-Z page of this website and ask what they need

• Identify a problem in your community and find a way to solve/improve it

• Make a video/brochure for interview skills and preparing for interviews for people in shelters

• Teach high school kids how to manage/reduce stress levels

• Assist senior citizens in independent/assisted living facilities with interior decorating

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