Girl Scouts in the Quad Cities recently received a $20,000 donation from Quad City Bank & Trust to support its staff-led outreach programs designed to remove barriers to scouting.
“Quad City Bank & Trust’s gift will ensure all girls in the region have a chance to build their confidence, learn new skills and create a lifelong group of friends,” says Diane Nelson, CEO of Girl Scouts of Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois. “This incredibly valuable program can be costly to provide, so partners like Quad City Bank & Trust sustain a high-quality program for more and more girls.”
The Girl Scout staff-led program is offered to girls in schools or partner sites where there are many obstacles to becoming a scout, the organization said in a news release.
The program is aimed at removing the barriers that can prevent girls from joining troops, including securing volunteers, paying the $25 membership fee, transportation and others. Girl Scouts provides paid staff to deliver the program in the school or partner site during or after the school day.
To create kind, confident and competent leaders, the Girl Scout program centers around the outdoors, STEM, life skills, and entrepreneurship, the organization says.
Through programs from coast to coast, participants of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges — whether they want to climb to the top of a tree or the top of their class, lace up their boots for a hike or advocate for climate justice, or make their first best friends.
To find out more, join, volunteer, reconnect, or donate, visit www.GirlScoutsToday.org.
