Happy Holidays from all of us

We are 10.54% closer to our Annual Giving goal for this fiscal year. Congratulations to each of you for all your hard work.

Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson would like to congratulate the Carmel Girl Scout Community and Pleasant Valley Community for reaching their Family Annual Giving goal.

If you have any tips or ideas, please forward them to the fund development department, at the address below. Maybe your tip will be spotlighted in the future!

As always, if the fund development department can help the Annual Giving campaign run smoother in any way, simply email us at mspears@girlscoutshh.org or call (912) 747-3080, ext. 265 or mhoffman@girlscoutshh.org or call (914)747-3030, ext 239.

Announcing New Team Members

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.

New to the fund development department are:

• Monica Spears, who will be contacting you to see if you’ve started, or need any help with, the Annual Giving Campaign, and 
• Mary Ellen Hoffman, who will be contacting each of you to provide training, or need any help with, the Annual Giving Campaign.

Girl Scouts Heart of the Hudson would like to congratulate the Carmel Girl Scout Community for reaching their Family Annual Giving goal.

We are 5.28% closer to our Annual Giving goal for this fiscal year. Congratulations to each of you for all your hard work.

Please remember this blog is to inspire and inform each of you throughout the Annual Giving campaign. Please stop by, post your comments and send me any helpful tips so I can inform everyone.

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 Myths Debunked

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.

Here are a couple of myths/obstacles you may encounter during the Annual Giving campaign:

People think buying cookies provides adequate support of Girl Scouting. Remember Girl Scout cookies are a program for girls to gain confidence and entrepreneur skills. We are extremely grateful to everyone who supports Girl Scouting in this way, but proceeds from cookies enable us to do only half of our work. We need donors to serve our girls throughout the seven counties, unless we are to turn girls away or close programs, we need donor support to do the complete job.

Some families in our community can’t afford to give financially. We may think that some families in our communities are unable to make a donation, however even in this economic state people will support charities that they believe in. Everyone should be given an opportunity to donate if they choose, troops should not be selectively distributing the annual giving campaign materials. Remember, people generally give when asked.

We are 2.34% closer to our Annual Giving goal for this fiscal year. Congratulations to each of you for all your hard work.

Idea Spotlight featuring the Arlington Girl Scout community: “Spare Change and Change a Girl”. The Arlington Community gathers various containers and decorates the containers with clip art. Each girl takes a container home for two weeks to collect household change. After two weeks, the containers are collected along with each troop’s donations and pledge cards. The Community Annual Giving Chair counts all the spare change and includes it in the community deposit.

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.