Annual Giving Update

On behalf of the girls, volunteers and staff who comprise Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson, Inc., we thank you for your leadership, time, dedication and especially, your ideas for sharing our mission with others.

Where should you deposit Annual Giving donations? We have over 25 different TD Bank locations in our seven counties and they are open seven days a week to serve your deposit needs. Just a reminder to use your Annual Giving deposit slips. If you need any more, please contact the fund development department.  Please check out our website for a complete list of TD Bank locations.

We are .99% closer to our Annual Giving goal for this fiscal year. Congratulations to each of you for all your hard work.

Idea Spotlight featuring the Mount Vernon Community: They are offering a gift certificate to our Girl Scout shop. In order to qualify, a leader/advisor must come to the Annual Giving training with her Annual Giving Chair. The numbers of the troops in attendance will go into a hat for a drawing and one lucky troop will win the gift certificate.

If you have any tips or ideas please forward them to Anne Chau, Fund Development Department, so your tip can be in the spotlight in the future.


If the Fund Development Department can help in any way to make this campaign smoother, simply email us at achau@girlscoutshh.org or call (914) 747-3080 ext. 220.

Annual Giving 2009-2010

On behalf of the girls, volunteers and staff who comprise Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson, Inc. we thank you for your leadership, time, dedication and especially, your ideas for sharing our mission with others.


This blog is to inform and inspire each of you during the 2009-10 Annual Giving Campaign. Please feel free to use this opportunity to share best practices or good ideas that have worked for you. Or, use this blog to warn your fellow volunteers of things that have not worked out as well as you hoped. All news is good when it keeps us all inspired to reach our goals.


This year’s theme is “In Vest in Girl Scouting”. By doing so, you encourage girls to Discover themselves and their values, Connect with others, and Take Action to make the world a better place.
The Fund Development department has started training and giving out materials for this year’s campaign to each Annual Giving Chair or Volunteer Community Chair. If you need more training or help getting your materials, just let us know or check the Annual Giving page.


As you know, the Annual Giving campaign consists of three parts: the Family Campaign, the Special Events Campaign and the Business Connection Campaign. All donations support the many services that Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson, Inc. provides, such as training for volunteers, support materials, programs, and properties (i.e., camps, Girl Scout houses, offices, shops). In short, all the good stuff that delivers Girl Scouting to your girls. As a valued and important member of our Girl Scout family, your financial support of the 2009-2010 Annual Giving campaign is needed to keep bringing Girl Scouting into your daughter’s life as well as into the lives of thousands of girls like her. Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson is now over 32,000 girls strong!


Idea Spotlight featuring the Northern Dutchess Girl Scout Community: They held a “Community in Action” charity event designed for registered girls to do community service projects. There were 11 tables providing activities such as: making catnip toys and dog treats for an animal shelter, making stuffed pillows for a local hospital, collecting baby clothes for unwed mothers, and gathering used books for an elementary school. There was also a table for Annual Giving where circles of yellow construction paper depicting pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters were put out on the table. Girls collected their spare change which they put on the sheets until they had the correct amount to be rolled into paper coin wrappers.


If you have any tips or ideas please forward them to Anne Chau, Fund Development Department, so your tip can be in the spotlight in the future.


If the Fund Development Department can help in any way to make this campaign smoother, simply email us at achau@girlscoutshh.org or call (914) 747-3080 ext. 220.

Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson

Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson serves 32,000 girl members throughout seven counties in the Hudson River valley of southeastern New York State.


Over 15,000 adult volunteers are offered comprehensive opportunites for training, skill building and enrichment courses to empower them to lead tomorrow's leaders.