Family Partnership
Facts

The Family Partnership, campaign is a council-wide fundraising campaign that supports programs and services provided locally for Girl Scouts.

How is Family Partnership money used?

• Leader training and materials, for example: The Essentials of Girl Scouting
• Council-wide program events
• Girl Developers Summit
• Financial assistance for girls to join troops or to attend Camp Merrie Woode
• Our website
• Brain S.T.E.M. programs (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Troop/Leader/Donor newsletters, Leader Insight, SPARK
• Camp Merrie Woode, for example: food for horses, maintenance, updates
• And much more!

For more information, click on the FAQ, upper right, for answers to your Frequently Asked Questions.

Family Partnership
Stellars

Stellar troops, service
units, and districts are determined by $ raised.

• I'd like to volunteer
• 2008 Family Partnership Volunteer Manual
• Matching gift companies

Family Partnership and the Honor Troop Program

The Honor Troop Program was established by the council to recognize troops willing to take the additional time and energy necessary to make the Girl Scout program a more meaningful and varied experience.  Troop participation in Family Partnership is among the requirement options for earning Honor Troop Status.  To qualify, each troop member’s family must contribute $25 or more to Family Partnership or the troop must raise the equivalent of $25 or more per girl through an event or fundraiser that benefits Family Partnership.  For example; a troop of 4 girls must contribute $100 or more to Family Partnership to be able to apply this requirement toward the Honor Troop Program. 

Stellar Family

Each year a Girl Scout family will be selected to be the Family PartnershipStellar Family.  This year to be entered into the drawing,
a family must contribute $95 or more to the Family Partnership
program to commemorate the 95th anniversary of Girl Scouting.  Funds must be received by December 30th, 2007 to be eligible.  The winner will be announced on January 14th 2008.  The winning family will have their picture posted on the Family Partnership website along with a story in their own words about why they choose to support their daughter in Girl Scouting.