Juniors
LIFE SKILLS
Understanding Take Action Activity
What is a Take Action Activity?
Community service projects are different.
Take Action and community service projects are different, but both are essential to Girl Scouting. Now you can focus on making the world a better place through your Journey, Take Action, and Global Action awards—or the Bronze Award, Silver Award, or Gold Award, the highest honors in Girl Scouting.
Activity Details
Time needed: 30 minutes
Materials needed: none
Setup: Review the information below, then practice with the community service and Take Action project scenarios. Take Action and community service projects are different, but both are essential to Girl Scouting.
Community service projects are acts of kindness and important ways to help something or someone right now. These are commonly short-term projects that almost always multiply efforts that are already in place. Examples include collecting food for an existing food pantry, providing clothing or toiletries to people who have suffered during a disaster, cleaning up a playground, or picking up trash at a park, forest, or beach.
Girl Scout Take Action projects address an issue by tackling the factors that cause or contribute to it. As you might expect, these projects have far-reaching influence. They’re designed to change something for the better—forever. Projects associated with Journeys, Take Action and Global Action awards, and Highest Awards (the Girl Scout Bronze, Silver, and Gold Award) are Take Action projects.
Prepare to take action by completing a Journey, Take Action award, Global Action award, or, if you’ve already done one of those and you’re a Girl Scout Junior, Cadette, Senior, or Ambassador, get started on your Bronze, Silver, or Gold Award, respectively.
Updates are on the horizon.
Journeys will officially be retired on October 1, 2026, to make way for an exciting new leadership exploration path: the Leadership Awards. These new awards will offer more flexible, interest-based ways for Girl Scouts to build their leadership skills—whether they’re leading themselves, their team, or their community.
So, what does the transition from Journeys to Leadership Awards mean for the Highest Awards? It means that Girl Scouts now have more ways to meet the prerequisite:
- Level up. Already earned the Bronze Award or Silver Award? They count—each award now leads to the next Highest Award.
- Lead your way. Complete one of the new Leadership Awards—and check the prerequisite box. Win-win!
- Keep it going. Only one Journey is needed to meet the prerequisite (it used to be two for the Gold Award!), and any completed Journey will still count, even after Journeys are retired.
Want to know more? Check out the Highest Award FAQs.
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