Dear Girl Scout Gold Award Mentor Committee Volunteer,

The Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award that a Girl Scout can earn and requires hard work and the willingness of a girl to challenge herself to take on significant responsibilities. To earn this award expresses a girl’s special commitment to herself, her community, her work, and her future. Earning the Girl Scout Gold Award symbolizes outstanding accomplishments in the areas of leadership, career planning, community service, and personal development. A Girl Scout Gold Award project should involve leadership, goal setting, decision making, networking, planning, enlisting the help of others, and more, resulting in a leadership project that will help others by meeting an expressed need in her community outside of the Girl Scout community.

 

The Girl Scout Gold Award Mentor Committee plays an important role in supporting a girl’s path to earning the Girl Scout Gold Award. On the committee, your role is as mentor and coach. You will provide support for girls embarking on the rigorous path towards earning this prestigious award through the interview and approval process, project implementation, and recognition.

 

Without adults playing many pivotal roles, Girls Scouting could not happen. As a volunteer on the committee, you will be working directly with girls. We are committed to the safety of the girls under our protection. We request that all adult volunteers complete a Volunteer Application and register as an adult member of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Registering as an adult member showers your acceptance of the organization’s principles and beliefs.

 

This packet contains much of the information you will need to serve on the Girl Scout Gold Award Mentor Committee. Should you have any questions regarding the Girl Scout Gold Award or your role on the committee, please contact the Cindy Chapman at cchapman@gssgc.org or 909-307-6555 ext 241.

 

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Central Service Center

1751 Plum Lane

Redlands, CA 92374

909-307-6555

 

 

High Desert Service Center

15329 Bonanza Road C & D

Victorville, CA 92392

760-241-3558

 

 

Low Desert Service Center

77-734 Country Club Dr Suite C

Palm Desert, CA 92211

760-345-1703

 

 

Southwest Service Center

26855 Jefferson Ave Suite B

Murrieta, CA 92562

951-813-3355

 

Dates & Deadlines:

GOLD AWARD COMMITTEE MEETINGS

The Gold Award Committee is a committee of volunteers that meets to review Gold Award Project Proposals every six weeks on a wednesday evening at 7 p.m. Meeting dates are posted on the councils event calendar.

 

Girls wishing to present their project at a meeting must turn their completed Project Proposal paperwork in at least two weeks before the meeting to Trisha Carr at the Central Service Center in Redlands. Questions can be directed to Cindy at  cchapman@gssgc.org

Award project completion deadlines are as follows:

 

• For girls earning their Bronze Awards using the NEW guidelines, their projects must be completed by the September 30 that immediately follows their completion of 5th grade.

• For girls earning their Silver Awards using the NEW guidelines, their projects must be completed by the September 30 that immediately follows their completion of 8th grade.

• For girls earning their Gold Awards, the girl has until September 30 after she graduates from High School to finish her Gold Award project.

The deadline for turning in FINAL Bronze, Silver, and Gold Award paperwork is February 1st of each year.

Girls who submit paperwork after that date will be recognized the following year.

 

For more information about Girl Scout Leadership Awards, please contact us!

 

Girl Scout Gold Award Committee packet

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Currently taking Applications for

Committee Members

Central Openings - 2

Central West Openings  - 0

High Desert Openings - 2

Low Desert Openings - 1

South West Openings - 2

 

Gold Award Committee Members

Barbara Pepper - Committee Chair

Linda Siems - Central West

Phyllis Dailey - Central West

 

Council Staff

Mary Moore -

VP of Program Pathways/Volunteerism

 

Cindy Chapman -

Director of Program & Volunteer Development

 

Trisha Carr -

Program Assistant I