LEADER Magazine
Girl Scouts' Quarterly National Magazine for Adults
in Girl Scouting and Future Volunteers
Fall 2005 Highlights
It's All about Expanding Experiences
and Real-time Communicating
Girl Scouts is using its technological savvy to map the organization's future. "Real-time Info: Councils Around the Country Get Friendlier with the Net" reports how councils and volunteers are designing and using websites, e-mail, and multiple phone message delivery systems to keep girls and one another up-to-date on relevant and important issues. Another article, "Troops Abroad Go Really Tech" shows exactly how Girl Scouts overseas depend—really depend—on technology to stay connected via secure chat rooms, e-mail, websites, and videoconferencing.
What helps keep girls in Girl Scouting? Exciting experiences, of course. "The Ultimate Girl Scout Experience: STUDIO 2BSM destinations" explains how girls can apply for a wide assortment of adventures—from rock climbing in a jungle to big-city career explorations—that councils and Girl Scouts of the USA assemble for them yearly. Read what girls and an adult adviser learned on a trip to the Costa Rican rainforests—it wasn't just about rappelling down a waterfall! See also Process for Applying to launch your destinations quest.
LEADER departments will bring you up-to-date on the subjects impacting girls: "News and Views" reports on women and standards of beauty, young people and their connection to religion, and the good affects camping can have on girls. Real leaders tackle a question about bridging in "Leader to Leader." Don't miss the new department: "Advocacy: A Premier Voice for Girls." You'll see exactly how the organization intends to parlay its unparalleled knowledge of girls into a strenuous policy of advocacy at the federal, state, and local levels.
Ambitious and inspiring stories make the fall 2005 LEADER a must-read.
