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Map of Virginia with counties showing the different Girl Scout Councils. GSCNC is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with satellite offices in Brandywine and Germantown, Maryland; Kingstown and South Riding, Virginia; and Martinsburg, West Virginia. GSCNC employs 115 full-time employees. The 2017 Operating Budget was $16M.
Camp William B. Snyder or just Camp Snyder is an 405-acre (1.64 km 2) Cub Scout Camp in Prince William, Virginia, owned by the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. [29] It is one of the largest Cub Scout Camps in the United States, with a dining hall that can accommodate 600 dinners at one time. [ 30 ]
Girl Scout Camp River Ranch is 430 forested acres in Carnation, Washington including Lake Langlois and is by the Tolt River. Girl Scout Camp Robbinswold is 540 acres (2.2 km 2) on the Hood Canal near Lilliwaup, Washington. Girl Scout Camp St. Albans is 414 acres (1.68 km 2) near Belfair, Washington.
List of local councils. Local councils of the Girl Scouts of the USA, within U.S. states, and in Insular areas and Territories of the United States, currently includes: Alaska. Arizona Cactus-Pine. Black Diamond. California's Central Coast. Caribe. Carolinas Peaks to Piedmont. Central & Southern New Jersey.
The Texas Tribune, "Waco Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Boycott of Girl Scout Cookies," Jan. 31, 2014. USA Girl Scouts Overseas, "Girl Scout Lingo - What Does it Mean?" May 29, 2021. YouTube, Pro ...
The Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital in Washington, DC hosted a 100th Anniversary Sing-Along on the National Mall, on June 9, 2012, called Girl Scouts Rock the Mall: 100th Anniversary Sing-Along. [134] The Rock the Mall event drew more than 200,000 people to the national mall to celebrate Girl Scouting and cost $2 million. [135]
The council has a 2.5 to 1 ratio of youth members to adult leaders, which is among the highest of all the councils. The youth retention rate approaches 80%. Girl Scouting. From 1913 until 1916 Washington was the national headquarters of the Girl Scouts and it was here that the first National Council meeting was held in 1915.
Juliette Gordon Low ( née Gordon; October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was the American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA. Inspired by the work of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scout Movement, she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, forming her own group of Girl Guides there in 1911. In 1912, she returned to the United States, and ...