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Submit your organization to be included in this listing by going to our Community Service Organization Questionaire.
Submit your organization to be included in this listing by going to our Community Service Organization Questionaire.
Girl Scouts and Community Service
Girl Scouts and Community Service
For more than 100 years, Girl Scouts like you have been helping people and working to make the world a better place.
As a G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)TM you can use your helping power now and forever to solve problems and make a difference at any age. Big changes can happen when people stand up for their beliefs.
You probably see things every day that you'd like to fix or make better. It can be a big or small problem. The important thing is to do something about it. If you need some help coming up with ideas here is a whole list of community organizations that would like your help.
Please remember that Girl Scouts should wear their uniform or a Girl Scout t-shirt when providing community service.
Know of an organization missing from the list? Email us the organization’s name, your contact there and what community service a Girl Scout troop provided them. We’ll follow-up and see if they want to be included in the directory. Email the information to info@gsbadgerland.org.
If your girls are interested in making an impact with a Take Action project, refer to the FAQ video on our website to see how you can elevate your community service to Take Action.
If you are interested in our Inspiration Project Patch program for community service as a Daisy, Brownie, or Junior Girl Scout, please visit the information sheet on our council patch webpage. For Cadette, Senior and Ambassador Girl Scouts, please refer to the requirements for the Community Service Bar in your Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting.
See information on the following organizations below:
- Dane County Humane Society
- Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin
- The Hunger Task Force
- Gilda's Club Madison
- Middleton Outreach Ministry
- Neighbor for Neighbor Food Pantry
- Porchlight
- Prairie Gardens
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Madison
- Rotary Botanical Gardens
- Sauk County Humane Society
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Southern Wisconsin
- Sienna Crest Assisted Living, Inc
- Skaalen Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
- UW - Madison Arboretum
- Waunakee Neighborhood Connection
- Zacariah's Acres
*Dane County Humane Society
*Dane County Humane Society
5132 Voges Road
Madison, Wi 53718
9202965372
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Amanda Smith
Service Category(ies): Animals
Ages of Volunteers: K-12th Grades (5-19 years old)
Volunteer Activities Available: Make tie blankets, participate in workshops to earn a badge, donate needed items.
*Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin
*Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin
222 S Arch St
Janesville, WI 53548
608.752.5622
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Kaitie Swedlund
Service Category(ies): Animals
Ages of Volunteers: 4th-12th Grades (9-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Cat cuddling, dog cuddling, making tie blankets, making cat/dog toys, washing dishes, doing laundry, cleaning up the lobby.
*The Hunger Task Force
*The Hunger Task Force
1240 Clinton Street
La Crosse, WI 54603
608.793.1002
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Nicole Larson
Service Category(ies): Community Gardens/Farms; Basic Needs (Food, Clothing, Housing)
Ages of Volunteers: K-12th Grades (5-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Hunger Task Force Warehouse- Assist with checking in donations, sorting, organizing, and other warehouse projects. Kane Street Community Garden- Help with prepping, tending, planting, mulching, and harvesting at the garden.
*Gilda's Club Madison
*Gilda's Club Madison
7907 UW Health Court
Middleton, WI 53562
608.828.8880
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Jolene Rudisill
Service Category(ies): Medical/Emotional Challenges
Ages of Volunteers: 6th-12th Grades (11-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Preparing family night meals, assist during events, yard clean up, planting.
*Middleton Outreach Ministry
*Middleton Outreach Ministry
3502 parmenter st
Middleton, WI 53562
608.836.7338
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Joan Mcgovern
Service Category(ies): Elderly/Senior Care; Community Gardens/Farms
Ages of Volunteers: 9th-12th Grades (14-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Always in need of grocery bags and paper bags for shoppers. Collect them and bring them in. Look at the food pantry top 10 list on the website and organize a food/clothing drive and bring in the items. Plant a garden and donate the produce. See more ideas at their website.
Neighbor for Neighbor Food Pantry
Neighbor for Neighbor Food Pantry
1118 W. Veterans St
Tomah, WI 54660
608.372.6737
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Doug W. Staller
Service Category(ies): Basic Needs (Food, Clothing, Housing)
Ages of Volunteers: 2nd-12th Grades (7-18 years old)
Volunteer Activities Available: Organize a food drive and bring in the items or stop by and see what sort of help we need.
*Porchlight
*Porchlight
306 N Brooks Street
Madison, WI 53715
608.257.2534
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Jessica Mathis
Service Category(ies): Basic Needs (Food, Housing)
Ages of Volunteers: K-12th Grades (5-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Participate in group donation projects. This involves gathering needed donation items, organizing them and delivering them to Porchlight. Other opportunities include assembling kits of donations such as hygiene kits made of personal hygiene items or welcome home baskets made of household goods.
Prairie Gardens
Prairie Gardens
900 O'Keeffe Ave
Sun Paririe, WI 53590
608.825.4884
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Stephanie Hilgers - 608.825.4883 stephanie@prairiegardensassistedliving.com
Service Category(ies): Elderly/Senior Care
Ages of Volunteers: 4th-8th Grades (9-14 years old)
Volunteer Activities Available: Crafts, cookie decorating, games.
*Ronald McDonald House Charities of Madison
*Ronald McDonald House Charities of Madison
2716 Marshall Court
Madison, WI 53705
608.232.4660
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Tara Hensley – 608.232.4671
Service Category(ies): Children Basic Needs (Food, Clothing, Housing)
Ages of Volunteers: K-12th Grades (5-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Making tie blankets, decorating lunch bags for our lunch program, baking or cooking dinner, collect wish list items such as food, toiletries, cleaning supplies, etc. Donate cookies for our families and lunch program.
*Rotary Botanical Gardens
*Rotary Botanical Gardens
http://www.rotarybotanicalgardens.org
1455 Palmer Drive
Janesville, WI 53545
608.752.3885
laura.boettcher@rotarygardens.org
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Laura Boettcher - 608.314.8415
Service Category(ies): Community Gardens/Farms
Ages of Volunteers: K-12th Grades (5-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Planting, weeding, raking, and other garden maintenance activities.
*Sauk County Humane Society
*Sauk County Humane Society
618 Linn Street
Baraboo, WI 53913
608.356.2520
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Rachel Leuzinger – 608.356.2520, volunteer@saukhumane.org
Service Category(ies): Animals
Ages of Volunteers: 4th-12th Grades (9-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Animal enrichment. Decorate our shelter for a specific holiday. Stuff Kong treats. Clean animal areas. Organize Dishes and Laundry. Collect soda or pop cans and donate them to SCHS. Collect newspapers in good condition and donate them to the SCHS. Create your own donation drive for items from our wish list. Grow carrots in your garden for our little critters. Make cat or dog beds. Make “ADOPT ME” signs for our animals so that they can find good homes faster. Make dog toys or cat toys (check with us first to see which ones we recommend). Print pictures of our adoptable animals and place them at your school or at a local business. Set up an informational table in your neighbourhood or school Create an educational display about animals to place in your school, at SCHS, or other local businesses. Make an educational display to promote empathy or respect towards animals. Make a report on an animal related topic- (i.e. spaying and neutering, ID tags, or bite prevention). Keep our animals safe and healthy! Make colorful signs reminding visitors NOT to put their fingers in animal cages. Children 8 years old may volunteer along with a parents and may participate in critter cleaning and enrichment, cat socialization, dog walking, and special events.
*Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin
*Second Harvest Foodbank of Southern Wisconsin
http://secondharvestmadison.org
2802 Dairy Drive
Madison, WI 53718
608.223.9121
volunteerservices@shfbmadison.org
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Pam Higham - 608.216.7214
Service Category(ies): Basic Needs (Food, Clothing, Housing)
Ages of Volunteers: 6th-12th Grades (12-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Help us answer the nearly 1 million requests for help we receive each year. Your donation of time goes a long way to ending hunger. 1 hour of volunteer service has the equivalent value of 72 meals at Second Harvest! From inspecting produce to transforming 800+ pound bags of cereal into family-size portions, Product Recovery volunteers help prepare food for distribution to families struggling with hunger. Duties may include sorting food, labeling food, packaging bulk food into family friendly portions, and cleaning work area at shift end. (Minimum Age - 12 years) Food Drives are a wonderful way for everyone, including volunteers under the age of 12 years, to be involved in the effort to end hunger in our area. For more information, please see https://www.secondharvestmadison.org/get-involved/foodfund-drives.
*Sienna Crest Assisted Living, Inc.
*Sienna Crest Assisted Living, Inc.
Corporate Office
845 Market Street
Oregon, WI 53575
(Nine locations in Wisconsin - Darlington, Dodgeville, Fort Atkinson, Marshall, Mineral Point, Oregon, Platteville, and Waunakee.)
608.835.0040
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Sue White
Service Category(ies): Elderly/Senior Care
Ages of Volunteers: 2nd-12th Grades (7-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Any crafts, card making/writing, playing games/cards, reading to residents, baking, open to other ideas as well.
*Skaalen Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
*Skaalen Nursing & Rehabilitation Center
400 N. Morris St.
Stoughton, WI 53589
608.873.5651
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Dawn Zaemisch
Service Category(ies): Elderly/Senior Care
Ages of Volunteers: 6th-12th Grades (11-18 years old)
Volunteer Activities Available: Playing games with the residents.
*UW-Madison Arboretum
*UW-Madison Arboretum
1207 Seminole Highway
Madison, WI 53711
608.263.7888
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Judy Kingsbury - 608.262.5604, judith.kingsbury@wisc.edu
Service Category(ies): Environment/Outdoors
Ages of Volunteers: K-12th Grades (5-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Assistant naturalist at environmentally-focused summer day camp. Garden maintenance including weeding, planting, and mulching. Restoring prairies and other natural areas. Repairing trails and boardwalks. Citizen Science monitoring of rare plants and animals.
*Waunakee Neighborhood Connection
*Waunakee Neighborhood Connection
http://www.waunakeeneighborhoodconnection.com
215 South Century Ave #316
208 South Century Ave.
Waunakee, WI 53597
608.849.5740
Service Category(ies): Basic Needs (Food, Clothing, Housing)
Ages of Volunteers: K-12th Grades (5-18 years old); Adults; Those With Disabilities
Volunteer Activities Available: Projects vary throughout the year. Birthday bag project; Birthday card project; gathering blankets, socks, laundry soap, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, shampoo, soap, etc. Christmas Meals, Fun in the Sun Buckets, OR.... you can create your own project!
*Zachariah's Acres
*Zachariah's Acres
N74 W35911 Servants’ Way
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
920.988.8905
Name of Volunteer Coordinator: Emily Enockson
Service Category(ies): Children; Medical/Emotional Challenges; Community Gardens/Farms; Animals; Environment/Outdoors; Education/Literacy
Ages of Volunteers: 9th-12th Grades (14-18 years old); Adults
Volunteer Activities Available: Helping in the garden, havesting, planting, fall clean up, event help, gathering donations from our wishlist.
Questions? Contact us as 800.236.2710 or info@gsbadgerland.org.
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