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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.
Local councils of the Boy Scouts of America The Ideal Scout, a statue by R. Tait McKenzie in front of the Bruce S. Marks Scout Resource Center, the former headquarters of the Cradle of Liberty Council in Philadelphia Scouting portal The program of the Boy Scouts of America is administered through 272 local councils, with each council covering a geographic area that may vary from a single city ...
Girl Scouts of the United States of America ( GSUSA ), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [ 2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of Scouting.
Early history (1908–1950) One of the earliest Scouting groups in Pennsylvania began in 1908 in Pottsville, when a Superintendent with the Pennsylvania State Police, Lynn G. Adams, formed a troop using Baden-Powell 's handbook, Scouting for Boys. The troop was made up of two patrols, one sponsored by the Pottsville Mission and the other by the ...
The estate is now owned by the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts serves more than 45,000 girls and 17,000 adults in 177 Massachusetts communities and South Hampton, New Hampshire. It was formed February 1, 2008 by a merger of three councils: Girl Scouts, Patriots' Trail; Girl Scout Council of ...
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio (GSNEO) serves nearly 30,000 girls and has 14,000 adult volunteers. GSNEO was formed in 2007 by the merger of five different councils: Erie Shores, Great Trail, Lake Erie, Lake to River, and Western Reserve. Its history dates back to 1912 when the first known girl scout troop in the area was started. Service Centers:
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.
Gamehaven Council. Gamehaven Scouting serves seven counties in southeast Minnesota. From its council office located in Rochester MN, its area ranges from Red Wing MN to Winona MN to Owatonna MN and is bordered to the south by Iowa and the east by Wisconsin. In Rochester alone, there are more than 2,000 Scouts, including 26 Cub Scout packs ...