Family Partnership Campaign

What is the Family Partnership Campaign?

The Family Partnership Campaign is the time when adults, volunteers and parents, show their belief and support of Girl Scouting by make a financial gift. Each family is asked to weigh the value to Girl Scouting in their daughter’s life and make a contribution accordingly. Your investment builds girls of courage, confidence and character.

Why should I participate?

Girl Scouts of West Central Florida approaches many constiuents every year in order to support our organization, including parents, volunteers, businesses, foundations and community groups. However, in our current economic climate, it is increasingly more difficult to raise our needed funds. Even the United Ways have had to cut back their support.

We know that you understand better than anyone the value of the Girl Scout program and the benefits it provides the girls in our community. Giving to the Family Partnership Campaign demonstrates your support of your daughter who directly benefits from your gift. The actual cost of Girl Scouting is not being passed on to the families. Donations keep Girl Scouting affordable.

Where does the money go?

100% of all contributions go to the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida and supports all Girl Scout troops and groups locally. The Council offers resources and training for our volunteer leaders and maintains camp properties and equipment for use by Girl Scouts at very reasonable fees. 86% goes directly to support Council program activities, recruitment, and professional services.

Why does the Council need money?

Girl Scouts of West Central Florida is a non-profit 501© 3 organization that depends on public support. It costs the Council more than $200 a year to serve one girl. We serve more than 28,800 girls in our eight-county area.

With changing families, many girls are unable to participate in volunteer led after-school activities. To help overcome the obstacle, we offer Girl Scouting in the housing projects, community centers, homeless shelters, domestic violence shelters, juvenile detention centers, and alternative education centers. Reaching girls in these non-traditional settings helps provide them the character-building messages promoted by the Girl Scout Promise and Law.

I pay $10 for my daughter to join Girl Scouts. Where does this money go?

The $10 you paid when your daughter registered covers national membership dues. The entire $10 goes to Girl Scouts of the USA, which provides activity insurance, program, research and management support to the Council.

I buy Girl Scout cookies. Isn’t that enough?

Thank you for supporting the Girl Scout Cookie Program. As you may know, by participating in the cookie program, girls learn important skills for success in other areas of life. Part of the proceeds from the cookie program go to cover the cookies themselves, some go to the troop, some go to the girls for their incentives, and some go to the Council to cover part, but not all, of the costs to provide Girl Scouting in our Council. In fact, after cookie sales, we still have more than 1.6 million dollars left to raise to keep our organization running.

My daughter pays troop dues. Why should I give money to the Girl Scout Council?

The troop decides what the dues will be and the funds pay only for the girls’ troop activities, not the Council services like recruiting and training troop leaders, program support, maintenance for the camps, financial assistance and many other services available.

I give to the United Way. Isn’t the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida affiliated with United Way?

Yes, Girl Scouts of West Central Florida receives funding from seven community-based United Ways. While we appreciate this source of funding, in recent years our allocations have reached a plateau or even decreased. In fact, only 6% of our budget comes from United Way.

Don’t corporations and foundations give money?

Yes, they do and we appreciate this support from the community. Our largest groups of donors, however, are the family and friends of Girl Scouting. When you support the Council, corporations and foundations are more likely to support our Council. They take notice of the percentage of our membership families and friends that also donate to the council.