Organization
Girl Scout Council of Greater New York Inc
New York, NYMission
Part 1: the mission of the greater New York council is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. - Part 3: the girl scout council of greater New York (the council) was organized in 1942 to carry out the mission of the girl scouts of the USA for girls ages 5-18 within the greater New York area. That mission is to develop in girls, courage, confidence, and character, who make their communities and the world a better place. Over 8,000 girls representing every zip code in New York city participate in girl scout programming, led by over 3,800 adult volunteers. The council supports girl scout troops in public and private schools, public housing developments, and community-based organizations. Additionally, through council-led programs, the council offers many diverse pathways to help girls grow into leaders.
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Website: http://WWW.GIRLSCOUTSNYC.ORG
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Phone: 2126454000
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Principal Officer: MERIDITH MASKARA
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EINEIN: 131624014
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Revenue: $12,664,905
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Assets: $15,925,045
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Expenses: $7,866,721
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Girl Scout Council of Greater New York Inc
40 Wall St Ste 708
New York,
NY
10005
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Girl development: over 8,000 girls participated in the girl scout leadership experience through a variety of pathways such as troop meetings, weekend camp, one-day events, series, travel, and virtual programming. The council also delivered programming in four focal areas: stem (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics), business and entreprenuership, outdoor education and adventure, and leadership. Over 3,500 girl scouts managed their own girl scout cookie businesses, selling over 2.2 million boxes of cookies. We served 3,672 girls in the council's science, technology, engineering, and math (stem) experiences in 2021. This included hour of code, badge days, museum visits, breaking the code camp and virtual cybersecurity academy. We served 187 girls through our 2020-2021 girl scout leadership institute through a hybrid model, starting with in-person meetings and transitioning to virtual programming over the course of the year. Girls in the leadership institute engaged in age-specific academic transition workshops, joined peer-led committees and attended professional development and career readiness workshops. The council delivered in-person environmetal experiences for 1,441 girl scouts prior to the pandemic. During the pandemic our new online programming included a virtual learning model reaching 1,189 particpants. The council created more than 40 online courses and hundreds of lessons for this virtual learning model, and these were speficically created to meet the girls' needs during the pandemic. 91 girls earned the girl scout gold award, 162 girls earned their silver award and 226 girls earned their bronze award during this time. These are the highest recognitions that girls can earn in girl scouting, earned by completing projects that improve their communities in sustainable ways. Additionally, 42 eligible girl scouts at the council received college scholarships. The council continued expansion of the troop 6000 program to provide girl scouting in homeless shelters to over 320 members across 18 shelter sites. They participated in girl scout world thinking day in February, sold cookies, and participated in troop activities where they earned badges through weekly meetings.
Volunteer opportunities: the girl scout program advances the development of 15 key outcomes for girls related to discovering, connecting, and taking action in their community. Through the council's volunteer corps of over 3,800 adults, they were able to serve girls in virtually every zip code across the five boroughs. Volunteers participated in training to enhance their knowledge of the girl scout program and ability to provide girls with travel-related, stem, and camp experiences.
Camp operations: the council's camp kaufmann in dutchess county, NY provided outdoor educational programs which were disrupted due to the pandemic. The counsel was able to partially reopen during summer 2021 and was able to service 290 campers through day trips over 18 available dates. We also provided 128 campers overnight camp experience. To subsidize the limits of camp programs the counsel designed an on-line virtual alternative, girl sccout virtual experience allowed girls of all ages participated in in a series of staff and girl-led sessions to bring camp into the home and discover, learn, and have fun, while making new friends and exploring their immediate environment with simple materials and minimal supplies. Virtual campers met twice a day in small groups based on girl scout level separated into four themes: interstellar explorers, center stage experience, cybersecurity academy, and summer safari.