Moxie Magazine - January 2022

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Cookie Bake-off Benefit

Ready for Delicious? At the annual Girl Scout Cookie Bake-Off Benefit in Kalamazoo, the top chefs in town will each create a unique delicacy with Girl Scout cookies as the main ingredient. The sweet and savory treats and heavy hors d’oeuvres are complimented by amazing live and silent auction items, including an African safari trip from Kalamazoo Safari, a NASCAR Driving Experience, a Detroit Sports Fan Package, and more. The best part is that this night of fun will support girls who need and deserve to have the advantage of Girl Scouting in their lives.

Think back to when you were a girl. Young, naïve, and trying to find your place in the world. You probably had some favorite hobbies, some best friends, and some challenges to face. Did you deal with bullies, low self-confidence, body image issues, or pesky boys? Probably! And girls today have the added challenges of growing up during a global pandemic which has changed life as we know it. Girls today have higher levels of anxiety and depression than ever before, and the pandemic has left permanent impacts on them and their development. Girls crave laughing with their friends and having a safe space to disconnect from the stressors of the world

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around them and connect to fun and friendship. In today’s world, Girl Scouting has never been more important. The test of time has shown that most female business leaders (over 50%), two-thirds of women in Congress (60%), and almost all female technology leaders (80%), were Girl Scouts. This is no coincidence. Girl Scouts fuels the female leadership pipeline. Girl Scouts builds qualities

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