We're excited that you are interested in discovering fun, friendship and the power of girls together! Currently we serve approximately 500 girls in the Coppell and Valley Ranch areas. We service all schools in Coppell ISD. If you would like more information about Girl Scouts, you can visit the official Girl Scouts USA webpage, our local Girl
Scouts of Northeast Texas webpage, or take a quick peek at our list of
Frequently Asked Questions If you have any questions or need more information, please contact us at coppellgirlscouts@yahoo.com.
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Click to see our group on Event Etiquette
- Make your reservations on time, so that supplies will be available
- If you make a reservation, you pay for everyone, even if a girl can’t attend after all. Supplies have been purchased based on your reservation and usually cannot be returned
- Leaders should collect money from girls, even for “pay at the door” events, to avoid any confusion about price
- Even at a GS event, your troop must provide Safety-Wise adults (see gsnetx.org for updates.) Be there before any member of your troop arrives so that parents can’t “drop and run.”
- Safety-Wise adults must include a leader or another adult who knows every girl and her emergency contact information
- Leaders should observe and assist only if needed, e.g. if one of your girls is having trouble with a particular activity
- If you have an issue with any of the older girls who are running the event, please speak to the adult in charge, not the girls. This is a learning experience for all of them. Thank you for your patience and understanding!
First Aid/CPR Classes
Allison Groom is scheduling an additional training class for
those of
you who
couldn’t attend the October training.
Contact allison.groom@verizon.net if you’re interested
or
sign up at www.mysignup.com/cpr.
New Girl Scout Books
To find out What's New about the Girl Scout Program, view the Powerpoint Presentation.
Leader Meetings
Our leader meetings this year will be held on the LAST Wednesday of every month (unless indicated otherwise) at the Town Center Elementary at 185 N. Heartz in Coppell. We will meet at 7:00 p.m. in the cafeteria.
Spring Registration
Marijana Clent is collecting Spring Registration forms now. You can contact her to hand deliver them (do NOT leave on the front porch). Some notes regarding the forms:
How you can contact me:
Phone number: 925/872-1398
E-mail: thetallfamily@yahoo.com
Forms and check info ( please no cash!):
For all the leaders that have members re registering, please submit the forms with checks that are addressed to GSNETX.
Should you not have any forms here are the links to both Girl and Adult forms, forward and have your moms download, print and fill out. Girl form or Adult form
Forms submission:
1. By appointment - e-mail me- if you have any questions
2. In the drop off box at the front door - if no questions and have all the data needed
GSNETX 100th Anniversary Patch
This GSNETX patch will celebrate the Girl Scout’s 100th anniversary by focusing on our ten decades of history. To earn the center portion of the patch, girls will learn about our history by exploring various people, places and things representing the last 100 years. The ten rockers to be placed around the center portion of the patch will have requirements based around Girl Scout traditions such as leadership, citizenship and service.
To earn the center of the GSNETX 100th Anniversary patch girls must answer the following number of questions in each category according to their program age level. Click to go to GSNETX website to find out more.
| Daisies - 1 | Brownies – 2 | Juniors – 3 | Cadettes, Seniors and Ambassadors - all |
Financial Report Forms Coming up Soon
It's time to start thinking about your Troop Annual Financial Reports. Some additional information is being requested such as complete contact information for all troop volunteers whose positions are related to the financial status of the troop. This includes troop leaders and assistant leaders, troop cookie managers, everyone signing on the troop bank account(s), anyone holding troop funds not in the bank account(s), and of course the person completing the form. Also, we are asking for information about participation in the cookie program, names of recognitions earned by the girls in the troop, and whether an activity approval form was completed for each money-earning activity the troop participated in other than the cookie program.
If any of the troops in the service unit have already completed the paper form, they can go ahead and turn in the paper form, or transfer the data from the paper form onto the new online form and submit.
If you’re completing the online form, once you click the submit button, a copy of the data submitted will be emailed to:
- The person who submitted the form
- GSNETX Business Services
- volresources@gsnetx.org
Two weeks after the form is submitted, Rebecca will send out a volunteer experience assessment to all volunteers listed on the form. She will keep track as assessments are completed. Volunteers will be prompted to respond to the assessment twice.
The troop volunteers in each troop who are responsible for completing the troop financial report just need to click on the link below and complete the requested information.
www.gsnetx.org\troopfinancialreport.
Bank Accounts
It is important for each troop to have a dedicated bank account in the troop's name. You can choose whichever bank you would like, but you must get approval from council. Click here to download the form (retrieved from the gsnetx website on 10/30/09).
Comerica Bank has been particularly helpful to many troops. They have even offered to come to your location to help you set up an account. It takes a $100 minimum deposit to open an account, but after that there is no minimum balance and there are NO FEES. Contact Sandra Jean Orta 972-393-1323 in the Coppell Office (128 North Denton Tap Road) or email her at sjorta@comerica.com. She was at the October Leader meeting to offer her help.
Family Partnership
Please click here to read about the Family Partnership program and what we're all doing to help support it.
Remember to find out if your company matches charitable contributions. These are just a few of the companies who do funds matching:
| Abbott Labs | SAP Takeda Pharmaceuticals |
| AIG | Verizon |
| Bank of America | Wells Fargo |
| Goldman Sachs | Lenovo/IBM |
| Kimberly Clark | Microsoft |
| Oracle | Nokia |
| PepsiCo | Sabre Technologies |
| Pfizer |
Becoming a Girl Scout Leader: 6 Easy Steps
Here is a little something for you potential leaders out there to help make your transition as easy and stress free as possible. Click here