Even though Marie Wilson and Tonie Chase are change agents from very different backgrounds, both credit the Girls Scouts for early leadership experiences.
Here’s a present for any mother who is trying to cope with a daughter going through adolescence and suddenly not as confident as she once was: advice from the “chief girl expert” for Girl Scouts of USA.
The Ban Bossy campaign wants girls to hang on to a barometer of self-worth. One teen says in elementary school she “never worried about what everyone thought.” Fourth in the Bias Price series, with reporting from Racheal Creech.
Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts in Savannah, Georgia, 100 years ago today. To mark the anniversary, Diane Loupe lovingly recalls a troop leader who told corny jokes and taught her to battle back the demons of dejection.
“Troop 1500,” rebroadcasting tonight on PBS’s Independent Lens, is about Girl Scouts who trek together to visit mothers behind bars. Director Ellen Spiro talks here about the reunion sequel she is making with the daughters, five years later.
Selling Girl Scouts cookies is more than a fundraiser; it shows women how to become strong leaders, says Kathy Cloninger in this excerpt from her new book “Tough Cookies: Leadership Lessons from 100 Years of the Girl Scouts.”
The SpelBots aren’t a band, they’re a robotics team from Spelman College in Atlanta. They are breaking down stereotypes about computer programmers, engineers and African American women wherever they go.
The Boy Scouts vow to continue to exclude homosexuals, a position upheld by the Supreme Court, however the Girl Scouts and others organizations have anti-discrimination policies while barring sexual interactions between leaders and children.
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