Girl Scout Gold Awards
The Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award for Girl Scouts 14-17, focuses on leadership, career exploration, challenge for personal growth and community action. A girl who has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award can look forward to greater access to college scholarships, paid internships and community awards. She can also be nominated for consideration as a recipient of the Girl Scout Gold Award Young Woman of Distinction honor from Girl Scouts of the USA. More than 3,500 Girl Scouts design, implement and complete Gold Award projects each year.
Girls start by choosing an issue that they care about. And following these 5 steps:
Step 1: Pre-requisites
Fulfilling the pre-requisites starts with completing two Senior or Ambassador journeys or having earned the Silver Award and completing one Senior or Ambassador journey.
Leadership Journeys for Ambassadors:
• Advocate. It’s Your World - Change It!
• Justice. It’s Your Planet - Love It!
• BLISS: Live It! Give It! It’s Your Story – Tell It!
Leadership Journeys for Seniors:
• GirlTopia. It’s Your World - Change It!
• Sow What? It’s Your Planet - Love It!
• MISSION: SISTERHOOD! It’s Your Story – Tell It!
Fill out this information on the Take Action Proposal form.
Step 2: Girls create a proposal for their Take Action project.
The Take Action Project should be a minimum of 80 hours. The project should have a lasting
impact on their community. Girls complete the Council Take Action Project Proposal Form. Be sure to fill out the form in its entirety.
Step 3: Girls mail their Take Action Project Proposal
Girls mail their Take Action Project Proposal to the address listed below. Once we receive the project then the Gold, Silver and Scholarship Committee will review it. If there are any questions, the committee will contact girls directly for an addendum. If not, girls will receive a letter of approval and may start to implement their Take Action Project.
Step 4: Girls start their Take Action Project.
Girls implement an 80 hour (minimum) service project that will have a great impact on their community. Girls Complete the Take Action Final Project Form in its entirety. Along with the form girls should include pictures, flyers and any other relevant information to create a portfolio. The project should be put together in a binder. All answers should be typed.
Step 5: Girls mail their Take Action Final Project Report
Mail projects to:
Girl Scout Council of Greater New York
43 West 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010 Att. Program Dept
Projects will then be reviewed by our volunteer committee and girls will receive an approval or addendum letter.
For more information on the Girl Scout Gold Award and for upcoming training dates, please contact Melissa D’Andrea, Programs Manager of Teen Leadership Opportunities, mdandrea@girlscoutsnyc.org or (212)645-4000 ext 215.
Downloads Available:
If girls have already begun working under the old requirements, the following forms will be accepted until September 30, 2011:
Gold Award 2011-12 PDF
Gold Award 2011-12 MS WORD
OLD Gold Award Proposal 2009-10
OLD Gold Award Final Report 2009-10
If girls are just beginning work on their Gold Award, or will not be finished with their project by September 30, 2011, use the following forms with the most up-to-date requirements:
