Centennial Community Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts River Valleys is pleased to announce GREENPRINT: A Community-First, Mission Support Model which aims to re-create and re-imagine our Girl Scout Service Unit structure, boundaries, roles, and volunteer support to ensure all girls can benefit from Girl Scout programs. By boldly leading as an anti-racist organization, Girl Scouts River Valleys will intentionally uplift, train, support, and empower our volunteer leaders to use their voice and skills to maintain and create local communities of Girl Scouts. Stemming directly from our strategic plan, the changes include:

Updated community (formerly called Service Units) boundaries and community names using school district boundaries and names as a guide,
Refreshed community volunteer leader roles and benefits,
Increased volunteer engagement, training, support, and tools.

What are Communities?

“Community” is the new name for the geographic sections of our council that are currently called “Service Units.” Each Community will be led by a team of volunteers who provide support, training, guidance, programming, and more to local troop volunteers and Girl Scouts. While Communities will be the primary “home base” for troops, both troops and Communities can also receive support from Areas (see more below and on the next two pages). Our council will have 208 Communities. Each Community’s name is based on its school district, city, or town name, or on volunteers’ recommendations. Community boundaries are largely based on school district boundaries. By using names and boundaries that local people are already familiar with, Communities will make it easier for current members to communicate about Girl Scouting with the public.

What are Areas?

Areas are larger geographic spaces that will support Communities. Our council will have 57 Areas, each made up of 2-7 Communities. Areas will allow Communities to come together to organize events, programming, recruitment, and more. Area volunteer teams will support their Communities in different ways depending on each Area’s chosen role structure. Areas will have all the same roles available as Communities, and volunteers can choose whether to fill each role at the Area level, the Community level, or both (see more on the next page). This decision will impact how Area volunteers carry out their roles. For example, if every Community in an Area has its own Product Leader, the Area Product Leader might focus on mentoring and supporting those Community volunteers. If there are Communities without a Product Leader, though, the Area Product Leader could support those Communities’ troops directly with their product sales.

Centennial Community Girl Scouts (formerly known as Centennial Service Unit) is apart of the Northeast 12 Area which consists of Centennial Community and Forest Lake Community Girl Scouts.

What are Communities?

What are Areas?

Centennial Community Girl Scouts (formerly known as Centennial Service Unit) is apart of the Northeast 12 Area which consists of Centennial Community and Forest Lake Community Girl Scouts.

For more information on the community/area roles click here