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• The Girl Scouts of the United State of America advocates strong leadership opportunities for girls growing up.

• This program is influential in many ways, especially when it comes to advocating for important issues in our society.

• To begin with, Girl Scouts encourages healthy living opportunities for girls.

• By increasing access to outdoor activities, girls learn from a young age to be connected with nature and to familiarize themselves with outdoor survival skills.

• In addition to educating young girls about the importance of spending time outside, the program reduces bullying and relational aggression in attempts to promote and create healthy relationship skills.

• Girl Scouts also promotes economic opportunities and teaches girls the importance of gender equality.

• Through activities and educational events, Girl Scouts increases girls’ involvement with engineering, math, technology, and science.

• It also strengthens girls’ financial literacy and entrepreneurial skills by giving them the confidence that they can learn and excel in everything they do.

• In addition, Girl Scouts promotes a global voice for all girls by fostering global citizenship and supports a strong nonprofit community and girl scout experience, teaching girls from a young age the importance of helping those in need.

• Girl Scouts was founded by Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia on March 12th, 1912, when she assembled 18 girls into a meeting.

• At the meeting, Daisy spoke about her thoughts on how girls should be given the opportunity to develop spiritually, mentally, and physically without being isolated in at-home environments.

• A few years later, Daisy’s dream became an organization centered around the needs for young girls and is now part of an even larger organization that more than 59 million women in the United States has been a part of.

• For more information about the Girl Scouts and why you should donate to this well-established nonprofit organization, check out their official website here and learn more about the history of Girl Scouts.