Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council 2015-2016
Annual Report October 1, 2015 - September 30, 2016
Making the Connection
Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council ABOUT US
Girl Scouts of Silver Sage helps girls grow strong in southern Idaho, and parts of eastern Oregon and northern Nevada. Girl Scouts is a girl-focused and girl-led organization, helping to guide and inspire girls toward by developing values, social consciousness, self-esteem, and skills needed for success in the real world.
MISSION
Girl Scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
PROMISE
On my honor, I will try: To serve God and my country, To help people at all times, And to live by the Girl Scout Law.
LAW
I will do my best to be honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong, and responsible for what I say and do, and to respect myself and others, respect authority, use resources wisely, make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout. *All photos in this report are members of Girl Scouts of Silver Sage. **Front cover photography courtesy of Girl Scout Jessie Taylor.
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Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Annual Report
Table of Contents
2. Our Mission
16. Scouting Stars
5. Our Membership
17. Highest Awards
6. Board of Directors
18. Girl Scouts Give Back
8. Patches and Badges
20. Charitable Donors
10. STEM & Outdoor Programs
22. Volunteers and Staff
12. Cookies
23. Looking Forward
14. Fundraising Efforts GSSSC Annual Report 3
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OUR GIRL SCOUT PROGRAM
Inspires and Empowers GIRLS IN IDAHO.
The Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council has played an important role in the lives of Idaho girls for more than 80 years, inspiring them to become strong young women of courage, confidence, and character. Girl Scouts in Idaho succeed. They demonstrate greater high school graduation rates and are 80% more likely to pursue a college education than non-Girl Scouts. They rise to the top in their careers and become leaders in their communities.
Girls and Volunteers in the 2016 Membership Year:
We are 6,949 strong! Girls: 4,439
Adults: 2,510 Girl Members:
Adult Volunteers:
Treasure Valley- 3,122
Treasure Valley- 1,839
Central Idaho- 465
Central Idaho- 224
Eastern Idaho- 852
Eastern Idaho- 447
Proudly serving 37 counties in southern Idaho, and parts of eastern Oregon and northern Nevada.
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2016 Board of
Directors Executive Officers
Holli High Woodings, Board Chair, IdaVotes! Janet Callahan, PhD, 1st Vice Chair, Boise State University Nick Veldhouse, 2nd Vice Chair, Discover Technology Leatha Thayer, Secretary, Wells Fargo Amy Dempsey, Treasurer, Riche Dempsey & Assoc.
Directors-at-Large
Sonna Lynn Fernandez, Idaho Transportation Department Lori Smith David Kaplan, Micron, Inc. Jeff Thomson, Elam Burke, Attorneys at Law Christina Kang, Deloitte & Touche LLP Coleen Niemann, Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Non-Voting Staff Members Maureen O’Toole, Chief Executive Officer Maggie Williams, Chief Financial Officer Non-Voting Girl Members Emma Ballantyne Olivia Taylor
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LETTER FROM OUR
CEO and Board Chair
We hope you enjoy the 2015-16 Annual Report from Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council. Thanks to all of you, we had another extraordinary year. Here are a few of our major accomplishments: • • • • • • •
We reached more girls with our life-changing program, increasing girl membership by 8% for a total of just under 4,500 girls. We retained 67% of our valued adult volunteers and equipped them with useful training and year- round support. We provided more opportunities for girls in Eastern Idaho by reopening summer resident camp at Ta-Man-A-Wis in Swan Valley after an eight-year break. We made tremendous progress on replacing the old shower house at Camp Alice Pittenger with a heated and covered, ADA-compliant building that will be completed in the spring of 2017.
This level of success could not have happened without you. Thanks to our Board of Directors for insight and guidance. Thanks to our community partners who provide girls with experiences that connect them to each other, to ideas, the environment, and the community. Thanks to the 2,510 volunteers who mentor, advise and inspire girls. Thanks to our donors who are the reason we can offer camp scholarships, sponsor membership dues, build a new shower house, and grow our impact. And thanks to Council Staff who are the backbone of this strong, financially sustainable, visible organization that creates positive change. We hope the stories inside make you smile as you recognize your own impact and realize that you’re a valued member of this team. One team, one mission: to build girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. It’s a great day to be a Girl Scout!
Maureen O’Toole, CEO
Holli Woodings, Board Chair
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Badges & Patches Girl Scouts are encouraged to earn badges and patches for work achieved toward certain goals. Whether making their way through a Journey, participating in a special event, or completing a service project, girls are rewarded in fun and creative ways for jobs well done.
15,761
Total number of badges earned last year.
Visions
Visions is an in-school program for low-income, at-risk girls that provides easy access to the Girl Scout curriculum. The program takes girls through a series of activities designed to build self-esteem and confidence, and develop skills like healthy decision-making, problem solving, communication, conflict resolution, and personal safety.
A bright future
Some of which included: STEM Badges
Journey Awards Outdoor Badges
Financial Literacy & Entrepreneurial Badges
311 Girls
experienced Girl Scouting through Visions. A 59% increase over last year!
891 STEM Badges 1,489 Outdoor Badges
2,223 Journey Awards 3,225 Financial Literacy & Entrepreneurial Badges
Other Girl Scout badges earned: Global Action Awards – 268 Community Service Awards – 51 Leadership Awards – 47 My Promise/My Faith Awards – 224 Safety Awards – 571 8 GSSSC Annual Report
“Our Visions group is doing phenomenal. It helps me as a counselor because the girls are more positive and have something to look forward to. Since we started, none of the girls have had any issues in school. In the past, they were coming to see me every few days. I think Visions has made a great impact on the girls at our school.” -Asha Sharp LMSW, Ustick Elementary School Counselor in Boise
“Earning badges and learning things in a fun environment helps me learn better while sitting in a classroom.� -Madison, Idaho Falls
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“At camp I learned how to stand on a paddle board. The first time I tried, I fell. The second time, I did it. I was very cold, but I was also very proud of myself.� -Camper Feedback
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Science, Technology, Engineering & Math
With the help of sponsors, volunteers, and more than 30 community partners, Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council hosts a variety of STEM activities and special programs throughout the year. With the help of more than 25 Community Partners, nine STEM-related programs and activities were held during the year, with more than 800 girls impacted by early STEM learning and extracurricular activities. Our Girl Scouts learned about forensics, physics, weather systems, robotics, dissections, coding, programming, energy, chemistry, surgery, 3D printing, architecture and more!
Get Outdoors: Science & Nature Challenge 2016
Camping is a great way for girls to explore leadership roles, build skills, challenge themselves, and develop an appreciation for nature. Whether they go for a day, a week or longer, Girl Scout camp provides an opportunity to grow, explore, and have fun under the guidance of caring, trained adults. Girl Scouts of Silver Sage has two camp properties--Camp Alice Pittenger in McCall, Idaho and Camp Ta-Man-A-Wis in the Targhee/Caribou National Forest. Camp Alice Pittenger offered new experiences such as stand up paddle boarding and worked with community partners on orienteering, ranger-led activities at Ponderosa State Park and wilderness first aid. After 8 years of being quiet, Camp Ta-Man-A-Wis reopened its doors and was once again filled with Girls’ laughter and cheer!
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The purpose the Get Outdoors Challenge (Science & Nature 2016 and Winter 2015) was to encourage and promote Girl Scouts, Daisies though Ambassadors, to get outside, discover, and have fun. A list of 100 different activities to be done outside was offered online and girls who completed 50 or more activities earned a special patch! Activities ranged from building a bird house, snow shoeing and identifying native plants, to using a sundial. These activities promote confidence and decrease summer learning loss.
Happy Campers
Girls Camped at Camp Alice Pittenger McCall, Idaho
Challenge Accepted!
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Girls Camped at Camp Ta-Man-A-Wis Swan Valley, Idaho
814
Adventures never to be forgotten!
$16,273 in Camperships were awarded to 83 need based Girl Scouts.
582 patches awarded
Get Outdoors: Winter 2015 Challenge
564 patches awarded
This year, we created more than 10 different community partnerships for Outdoor Programming and in an effort to support a nationwide push to get more girls outdoors, we created and provided a variety of outdoor program activities. My Parks= My Adventure Patch promoted getting outdoors and experiencing the wonders of the state parks located within our own council area. By participating in the adventure of visiting our state parks, girls not only got to experience the outdoors, but also learned about the areas in which they live.
My Park=My Adventure State Park Challenge
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Cookies
A well-known component of Girl Scouting is the Cookie Program, the largest girl-run business in the world. Once a year, Girl Scouts around the country venture into the entrepreneurial world to learn business and financial skills while earning money to fund Girl Scout activities and adventures for themselves and their troop.
Making the Connection: “I like selling Girl Scout Cookies because lots of people can share them and cookies make people smile!� -Reese, Twin Falls
How the cookie crumbles: 3,433 Girls Participated in the Cookie Program
230 Boxes
Average Sold per Girl Scout
3,500 Booth Sales Boxes Sold:
Local cookie sales, along with a short Fall Product sale, are the only product sales that benefit girls in the Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council.
790,805 Total
The 5 Skills of the Girl Scout Cookie Program
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Through a partnership with United Dairymen of Idaho and Albertsons,
9,886
boxes of Girl Scout Cookies were donated to the Idaho Food Bank, along with a matching contribution of milk from the United Dairymen of Idaho! * Enough milk to sustain the food bank pantry though the summer months, when it is needed most. Holy cow! Great job, Girl Scouts! GSSSC Annual Report 13
“In Girl Scouts, I look forward to doing community service. It makes me feel good because I like helping people and doing things that benefit others. Girl Scouts teaches me how to better help my community for our future.” -ShayLynn, Idaho Falls
Low-Income Girl Funders Major Camp Funders
Julius C. Jeker Foundation, Inc. SelectHealth Union Pacific Foundation
Albertsons - Healthy snacks for the 2016 camp season Cabela’s – Camp equipment, supplies and operating support CHC Foundation - Funding to replace the generator at Camp Ta-Man-A-Wis Idaho Power – Camp scholarships for low-income girls and camp maintenance Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation – Repair of the kitchen lodge floor at Camp Alice Pittenger M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust – Funding for the new Shower House at Camp Alice Pittenger Monsanto Fund – Camp scholarships for Girl Scouts in Soda Springs and the Fort Hall Indian Reservation T.F. Dixon Family Foundation – Camp scholarships for low-income girls TRW Architecture – Architecture plans for the new shower house at Camp Alice Pittenger 14 GSSSC Annual Report
STEM Funders Keynetics Micron Foundation Rotary Club of Boise Sunrise Shopko Foundation Idaho STEM Action Center U.S. Bank
Fundraising and Events Idaho Gives
Idaho Gives is a day of statewide giving. During this day, people come together to support Idaho nonprofits. In true Girl Scout form, Girl Scouts of Silver Sage honors this special day by giving back through community service across the council area. And during this one day of giving, we raised $13,222! Mark your calendars for the next Idaho Gives on May 4, 2017.
Friendship Fest
Friendship Fest is a fun, festive summer fundraiser complete with live music, upscale BBQ fare, games, libations, and live and silent auctions. With the help of volunteers, community partners, and local businesses, Girl Scouts of Silver Sage raised $50,310 at Friendship Fest 2016. Join us for Friendship Fest 2017 on June 8 and your participation will support programs for girls and volunteers.
A breakdown of total fundraising revenue: Individuals
$71,169
Corporations and Civic Groups
$24,694
Foundations and Grants
$215,820
Events
$64,497
Total:
$376,180 A 45% increase from last year!
Vision Funders
Major Event Sponsors($1,000+)
Gladys E. Langroise Fund Advisory Committee in the Idaho Community Foundation Greater Boise Rotary Foundation Nagel Foundation Rotary Club of Boise Sunrise Washington Federal Foundation Whittenberger Foundation
We’re grateful for your generosity!
*To view our IRS Form 990, please go to the Guidestar website.
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Scouting Stars
Studies show that the longer a girl stays in Girl Scouts, the more accomplished she becomes and the more likely she will attend college and have a successful career. That’s why it is important to encourage girls through the adolescent and teen years to remain in the Girl Scout program and to recognize the accomplishments of those that do. Scouting Stars is a way for Girl Scouts of Silver Sage to do just that. It’s also a way to tell the stories of extraordinary Girl Scouts in our community.
Treasure Valley Honorees June 2016
Eastern Idaho Honorees October 2015
Abigail Munn
Brianna Maestas
Alexa Adams
Echo Jensen
Brianna Fernandez
Ella Ann Orgill
Cheyenne Quilter
Journi Smith
Emily Rinehimer
Kathrynn Humble
Hannah Chambers
Kodilyn Shanks
K Olson Geyer
Marie Cleverly
Lucy Bruyninckx
Tracie Bates
Mackenzie Bennett Makhyla Aspiri
Adult volunteers:
Michaela Heineman
Don and Anne Johnson
Nickee Brumbaugh
Mary Wilding
Nicole Dill
Nancy Stewart
Samantha Olson
Other Awards of note:
President’s Volunteer Service Award The President’s Volunteer Service Award recognizes, celebrates and holds up as role models Americans making a positive impact as engaged and deeply committed volunteers. The Award enables community leadership organizations, such as Girl Scouts to amplify their gratitude by joining with the President of the United States to thank their most dedicated volunteers. Congratulations to the 6 awardees from the past year.
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Prudential Spirit of Community Award The program’s goals are to applaud young people who are making a positive difference in their towns and neighborhoods, and to inspire others to think about how they might contribute to their communities. Congratulations to K Olson-Geyer for this honor.
Highest Awards GOLD AWARD
The Girl Scout Gold Award represents the highest achievement in Girl Scouting. This prestigious award challenges girls to make a sustainable impact on their communities by solving community problems. It requires a minimum of 80 hours of community service and recipients are eligible for select college scholarships.
SILVER AWARD
The Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest award that can be earned by a Girl Scout Cadette. By earning this award girls not only strengthen their skills and abilities, they learn about their community and take action to make the world a better place! This projects is a minimum of 40 hours. We had 50 Silver Award recipients reported during the 2015-2016 membership year. Congratulations to these go-getters!
BRONZE AWARD
The Girl Scout Bronze Award is the highest award that can be earned by a Girl Scout Junior. Earning this award shows that they have made a promise to help others, improve their community, and become the best they can be. This project is a minimum of 20 hours. We had 105 Bronze Award recipients reported during the 2015-2016 membership year. Congratulations and keep up the awesome work!
Making the Connection “I was excited to make a positive impact on my community through the implementation of a water safety program as my Gold Award platform. My passion for teaching water safety is rooted in the passing of a family friend during a water related accident and in the positive experiences I have had with water as a member of swim team. I wanted to share my love of swimming and knowledge of water safety. My project was extensive, but I was able to complete it in a year. The incredible impact that each Gold Award project has on not just a community, but also the World, was one of the many reasons I chose to start my journey as a Girl Scout.” - Cheyenne, Senior in Meridian
Striking Goaled! Congratulations to our 2016 Gold Award Honorees:
Megan Armstrong, Wendell, ID– Megan’s project addressed the emotions children face when in hospital environments. She was able to brighten children’s days, especially patients battling cancer, by creating handmade recycled crayons and coloring books that discuss emotions they may face. She educated others to help carry on the project. Kelsey Drayton, Boise, ID– Kelsey saw the importance of teens being prepared for the college applications in their futures. She created a book that walks a teen through the steps, starting their freshman year, to prepare for their college years. This book was so well received, her principal will be using it with future students. Cheyenne Quilter, Meridian, ID– Cheyenne used her passion and skills in swimming to educate others about the danger of swimming in open waters and canals. She was able to offer swim lessons to low income children, created a PSA with the help of KTVB Channel 7 and had a billboard donated by Lamar Advertising to support her efforts. Kathryn Rupert, Boise, ID– Kathryn wanted to help children with food allergies, something close to her heart. She educated the public and invited them to participate in the Teal Pumpkin project. Through these efforts, children with food allergies can receive non-food items when trick-or-treating, bringing smiles to their faces. GSSSC Annual Report 17
As part of a spring time Take Action Journey project, troops in the Wood River Valley distribute nearly 2000 daffodil flowers. An annual event, the Girl Scouts welcome spring and spread cheer after a long and cold winter. Flowers are shared as people walk down the streets as well as in local nursing homes. Innovators Katelyn and Mickayla from Preston, ID teamed up for their Silver Award to build a set of therapy stairs for their local medical center. These stairs will help patients relearn how to walk and use steps properly following accidents, surgeries, or strokes. With both having parents who are physical therapists, the girls recognized the need in their community and took action.
Idaho Air Guard troops were deployed and treated to Girl Scout Cookies donated by troops in Meridian. Many included special thank you notes designed by Girl Scouts! Guard personnel were thankful to have this special treat. We salute you 124th!
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Girl Scouts Give Back
An essential component of Girl Scouts is community service. Girls choose, manage, and participate in community service projects that benefit thousands of local families and individuals who are homeless, hungry, sick, disabled, abused, and/or neglected. They also help non-profit civic groups and foundations at fundraising events such as the St. Alphonsus Foundation Festival of Trees and ICON Credit Union’s “Warm Hearts Toasty Toes” winter sock drive. Last year, Girl Scouts of Silver Sage performed 279,210 hours of community service!
279,210 hours
of community service were completed by Girl Scouts in 2016!
Troop 521
Troop 308
Troop 46
Girls in Troop 521 from Boise planted a community garden. They harvested fresh vegetables and donated them to the Boise Rescue Mission and the Meridian Food Bank.
Boise Daisy’s from Troop 308 donated the proceeds from selling Girl Scout Cookies to Camp Rainbow Gold. The Girl Scouts set a goal to provide a Camp Rainbow Gold camp scholarship to a child battling cancer.
Troop 46 from Pocatello braved the cold to collect cans of food for the Idaho Food Bank and gave out cups of hot cocoa in return during “Cans for Cups”.
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Donors
OCTOBER 1, 2015 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2016
Thank you to our generous supporters for their commitment to Girl Scouts. Your contribution makes an impact on 4,439 girls in our council area.
From $20,000 and up Anonymous From $10,000 to $20,000 Icon Credit Union Nagel Foundation United Way of Bonneville County Anonymous From $5,000 to $9,999 CHC Foundation Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center Idaho Power J.R. Simplot Foundation Julius C. Jeker Foundation, Inc. Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Monsanto Fund The Albertsons Companies Foundation Union Pacific Foundation From $2,500 to $4,999 Cabela’s Charlotte Silver Estate D.L. Evans Bank Kohl’s Micron Foundation Maureen and Marty O’Toole Jeanmarie and Ron Pattan Kathy and Fred Peter Colleen and Jeff Ramsey Riche, Dempsey & Associates SelectHealth T.F. Dixon Family Foundation The Whittenberger Foundation United Way of South Central Idaho From $1,000 to $2,499 2015 Girl Scout Roundup Reunion Allied Business Solutions Ameritel/Homewood Suites Boise
James E Anderson Dot and Laurence Beller Boise Cascade Company and Packaging Corporation of America Janet Callahan and Gregg Lewis Corvettes of Southeast Idaho Elaine Eisenbraun ExxonMobil Foundation Sonna Lynn and Nestor Fernandez Christine and Lawrence Flournoy Giving Hand, Inc. Bev and George Harad Gladys and Roland Harriman Foundation Dana Heath and Bruce Reeder in part through Bank of America Charitable Foundation Patricia and Michael Hinnebusch Linda House IDACORP Employee Community Fund Idaho Nonprofit Center Kristi and Rodney Kesler Martin and Irene Liberal Willa and Jim McLaughlin in part through the Idaho Community Foundation Fred Meyer Community Rewards Gary and Susy Multanen through Rotary Club of Boise Sunrise Lori and Matt Smith Leatha Thayer Jeff and Gwen Thomson Thornton Oliver Keller Greater Boise Rotary Foundation Rotary Club of Emmett Foundation, Inc. Rotary Club of Boise Sunrise St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center Synoptek United Way of Southeastern Idaho United Way of Treasure Valley Employee Giving Valley Corvettes Sandy and James Wilson Holli and Ryan Woodings From $500 to $999 Joyce Baker Ann and Stan Bell BizPrint Boise State University College of Engineering CliftonLarsonAllen LLP De Armond Insurance Pamela and Stephen Doucette through the Wood River Women’s Foundation
Elam & Burke, Attorneys at Law Susan and David Hazelton Hewlett Packard Idaho Central Credit Union Intermountain Combined Federal Campaign David and Elise Kaplan Anonymous Dan and Lori Long Jane Ludwig Carol Macgregor, PhD through the Idaho Community Foundation Melaleuca Meridian Kiwanis Barbara “Sox” Nylund and Wendy Caden Peterson Stampede Virginia Reavill Martha and Keith Snyder Shadow Trackers Smith Optics Joanne Taylor The Walmart Foundation Washington Federal Foundation Washington Trust Bank Nick and Noelle Veldhouse Maggie and Tom Williams Kelly and Kim Wong From $250 to $499 Brenda and Michael Ballantyne Bank of Commerce Anne “Sprite” Church CPNP Amy and Bill Dempsey Nicole Flores Helen Fuhriman Bonnie “Joey” and David Hoerger Kathy and Kelly Hurley Lynn Ineck Idaho Forest Products Commission Intermountain Gas Keynetics Inc. Carol and Larry Lipschultz Diana and Eric Lawson Susan Montague Ronald and Patricia Nearman Mindy Oldenkamp Nicki Perry Barbara Quickstad Raleigh and John Vachek Bobbi Viker Bonnie and Fred Wyneken
Diane Kushlan through the Idaho Women’s Charitable Foundation Alecia Knapp through the AT&T Employee Giving Campaign Theresa Leal through The Benevity Community Impact Fund Patricia Malloy through the InFaith Community Foundation Erica Morales through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Annmanda Olson through The Benevity Community Impact Fund PacificSource Teresa and Joe Paige Pat Papiez Service Unit 21 St. Alphonsus Joni Stright The Shopko Foundation U.S. Bank U.S. Bank Foundation Wood Financial Group From $100 to $249 Mary Abercrombie Elizabeth Ambrose Jennifer Anderson Margaret Ballard Teresa and James Barnes Jo Bolen Marcia Brinton Tamara and Darrin Buys Nancy and Barry Carlson Beth “Pills” Carpenter Lucas Cavener Kathy and Jake Chambers Ellen and J.A. Close Megan and Greg Conrad Anne Dillard Lim DIRECTV Matching Gift Center Brooke Drayton Wendy Drayton Martha Dyer-Allison Jacqueline and Fred Dwight Julie and Brian Edgar Michelle Eshow Robin and Mike Fisher Jessica Flynn Debra Garrett and Brian Stephens Janie and Laurence Gebhardt
John and Carrie Hanousek Jeff Heineman Tammy and Michael Kern Cathy and Larry Kirk Julie and Patrick Klocke Clint and Amanda Kofoed Carla Koritnik through Monsanto Fund Cheryl and Jerry Korn Helen Kravetzky Elaine and Jeff Leedy Jane and Steven Matthews Cindy and Rick McCoy Ginny and Chas McDevitt Judy McKay and John Matthew Damien Mertz Kathy Moore Molina Healthcare, Inc. Anita and Phillip Murelaga Diana and Tom Nicholson Donna and Eric Nielsen Lynn and Ken Nixon Pioneer Title Company Dan Popkey Barbara and Hollis Putnam Patricia and Neil Pyke Deborah and Alan Raney Kimmon Richards and Douglas Whatmore Brittney and Brian Scigliano Martha and Bruce Service Jennifer Spencer Anonymous Susan Swetnam Kelley and Scott Tagg Sally Tibbs Stephanie Tyler Joca and Chris Veloz Glenda Viste Patrice and John Waidner Gail and Morris Wingate Mary and Mearl Winkel Kelly Wood Virginia Woolley Betty Young Anonymous
From $1 to $99 Thank you to all of our donors who have contributed $1-$99 this fiscal year. Your donations make a substantial impact in the lives of girls and help us continue our mission to build girls of courage, confidence and character.
In-Kind Giving
From $15,000 and up Connie and Neil Miller SuperValu TRW Architecture
From $5,000 to $14,999 Albertsons United Dairymen of Idaho From $2,500 to $4,999 Cabela’s From $1,000 to $2,499 Joann Stout From $500 to $999 Leslie and Mike Feltman Jeff and Gwen Thomson From $250 to $499 Janet Callahan and Gregg Lewis Dick’s Sporting Goods Sonna Lynn and Nestor Fernandez Gardner Company Susan and David Hazelton Maureen and Marty O’Toole Riverbend Communications Andy Schneider From $100 to $249 Cinder Wines Lee Englesby Potter Wines Lori and Matt Smith GSSSC Annual Report 21
Volunteers
Throughout Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council, more than 2,500 volunteers work tirelessly to build girls of courage, confidence, and character. Volunteers broaden girls’ horizons, teach them to make healthy choices, demonstrate how to lead with grace, encourage loyal friendship, and teach them to care for others in their communities. Many thanks and heartfelt appreciation to the women and men who volunteer for Girl Scouts of Silver Sage.
And our staff of
32 employees, volunteered
1506 hours
of community service to other organizations in the past year.
Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Staff
“I often feel like I would like to do more with our Girl Scout council, but my commitment to fulfill the obligations within our troop takes my time and energy. I’m so grateful to those that give in a broader scope to council or our Service Unit... It allows me to be the best Troop Leader and mentor I can be!” -Wendi, Troop Leader in Meridian 22 GSSSC Annual Report
All kidding aside, we’re grateful for your continued support!
Looking Forward
2016-2017: Our Vision for the Future • • • • • •
Increase Membership of girls and adults Maintain a balanced budget Create greater awareness of Girl Scouts in the communities we serve Modernize and upgrade owned and rented Girl Scout properties Improve systems and processes through upgraded technology Educate philanthropic, higher education and state level agencies on the benefits of Girl Scouts • Expand Outdoor and STEM Programming
Progress at Camp Alice Pittenger
We recently said goodbye to our beloved 65-year-old, outdoor shower house and hello to the makings of a beautiful, brand-new shower house and restroom facility set to open in May of 2017. The new facility features 8 stalls, toilets and sinks, and a private, full, ADAcompliant bathroom. The project cost, including site work and construction, is estimated to be $265,000-$275,000. We’ve been fundraising for 16 months to meet this cost and are happy to report that to date we have raised nearly $135,000 in cash contributions and $80,500 in locally-donated products and services.
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