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.
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.
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