Welcome to Our Web Conference Teaching Kids about Cooperatives with the Coops for Community Girl Sco

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Welcome to Our Web Conference!Teaching Kids
about Cooperativeswith the Co-ops for
Community Girl Scout Patch

• October 17, 2007
• 1000am -1100 am (ET)
• Sponsored by Cabot Creamery Cooperative,
• National Rural Telecommunications
  Cooperative (NRTC), and
  
• National Cooperative Business
  Association (NCBA)
  
• Host Adam Schwartz, VP Public Affairs Member
  Services,
  
• National Cooperative Business Association
• Speakers Deborah Lowery, National Girl Scout
  Coordinator,
  
• Cabot Creamery Cooperative
  former Girl Scout Leader
  
• Suzy Kraft, Program Support Manager,
• Girl Scouts of North Central Alabama,
  Birmingham, AL
  

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• Introduce the Co-ops for Community patch
  program
  
• Explain the Girl Scout System and protocols
• Give patch promotion guidelines
• Provide patch promotion

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Co-ops for Community Girl Scout Patch Activity
Booklet
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Co-ops for Community Program Purposes

• Help kids become more business savvy
• Teach understanding of how cooperatives help
  communities
  
• Develop business leadership experience
• Provide exposure to co-op business opportunities
  advantages

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Program Activities

• 14 different activities in the program include
• Visiting a co-op or having a rep visit
• Word Search/Crossword Puzzle
• Creating a co-op (on paper or for real)
• Learning about co-op jobs
• Researching info about specific co-ops
• Sharing info about co-ops with others

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Appropriate for What Ages?

• Requirements vary by age
• Brownies (ages 6 9) Do 5 activities
• Juniors (ages 10 12) Do 8 activities
• Cadettes/Seniors (ages 13 18) Do 10
  activities.

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Different Levels of Difficulty

• Easy Draw a logo, visit a co-op, match the
  co-op product
  
• Average Crossword puzzle, Interview a co-op
  rep
  
• Challenging Create run a co-op business, hold
  a co-op fair

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Why Girl Scouts?

• Troops are everywhere
• GS Laws Promise are similar to
• co-op principles
• GS has an organized patch program
• GS have organized publicity system

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Beyond Girl Scouts

• Middle, High School College students in
  business classes
  
• 4-Hers
• Co-op sponsored summer camp kids
• Home school groups

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How to Get a (FREE!) Copy

• Download it --- www.go.coop

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• 1.50 each 6.00 shipping per order
• Order from Suzy Kraft, Girl Scouts of North
  Central Alabama
  
• by phone, email, or mail
• Order info on page 3 in Patch booklet

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• GS Take survey (troop gets a free patch for
  completing survey)
  
• Troops Send in info about a troop
• co-op (may be featured on Cabot website)
• List Saved of names, email addresses of people
  who order booklets patches
  

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The Girl Scout System

• Official Badges Vs. Patches

Junior Badge
Cadette/Senior Interest Patch
Brownie Try-It
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Try-Its, Badges, andInterest Patches (IPs)

• Girl Scout USA-sponsored only
• Worn on front of GS vest or sash
• Requirements featured in official GS handbooks
• Sold only in GS council stores

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Patches

• Worn on BACK of GS vest or sash only
• Can be created and offered by GS councils, local
  businesses or organizations, or by a GS troop
  
• Can be any size or shape
• Can be placed on capes, or other non-GS clothing
  items, or on blankets
  
• Can be sold in GS shops who order them, or
  through a business or organization
  
• Can be promoted to groups other than GS

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Understanding the GS Organization

• Troop Leader (volunteer)
• Service Area Manager (volunteer)
• Program Director/Manager ( GS Council paid
  staff)
  
• CEO (GS Council paid staff)

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GS Contact 1

• Local troop leaders
• -word of mouth to other leaders
• -many are members of web groups for GS
  leader idea sharing

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GS Contact 2

• Service Area Managers
• - monthly meetings with leaders
• - send newsletters to leaders
• -know about upcoming GS
  programs

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GS Contact 3

• Program Directors (go by many names!)
• -Work at the GS council office
• - Produce a council-wide newsletter
  and/or website
  
• -Go to state and regional meetings
• -Attend national training meetings
• -Know about upcoming GS programs

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GS Contact 4

• CEO, Executive Director (may have other names!)
• -Can refer correct council staff member
• - Has state, region, and national contacts

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Incentives for GS to Complete the Patch

• Fits GS initiative for business technology
• education for girls
• Activities for patch also fit requirements
• for some Try-Its, Badges, IPs
• Creating a co-op for the patch could be Bronze,
  Silver or Gold project
  
• Could lead to a fundraising project for a troop

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What to Suggest

• offer to sponsor a day long co-op patch workshop
• ask for patch to be featured on council
  website/newsletter
  
• offer to buy patches to keep in local GS council
  shop
  
• offer end of year party, recognition, etc. for
  troops
  
• offer cash prize for best troop co-op created
• offer co-op reps to talk to troop

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Promote to NonGS Groups

• Teachers (ms, hs, college)
• After school program directors
• Home school groups
• State Business Technology Education Specialists
  
  
• Leaders of youth groups
• Boys Girls Clubs
• Youth Leadership Programs
• Future Business Leaders of America
  (FBLA)
  
• Future Farmers of America (FFA)
• Family and Consumer Science Student
  Association (FCCLA)
  
• 4-H
• Summer Camp programs
• College-sponsored youth programs

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Create Your Own Promotion

• Co-op business newsletters facilities
• Co-op sponsored summer camp
• Contest for most creative/successful youth co-op
  
  
• Give patches to local GS customers who complete
  the program
  
• Notify local press about
• groups who have created their own co-op
• Give a party for GS to promote the patch

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PROMO IDEA IN THE WORKS!

• What Summer Camp designed to teach financial
  literacy, economics, cooperation, leadership,
  etc.
  
• Who owned operated by Wisconsin Farmers Union
• Funding Grant funded
• Connection Director will use
• Co-ops for Community
• program for the camp!

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Whats YOUR Best Promotion Idea?? Send it t
o Carissa Heckathorn Manager of Marketing Mul
timedia National Cooperative Business Association
checkathorn_at_ncba.coop
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The Co-ops for Community Patch was a very
dedicated and involved effort. Many thanks to

• Roberta MacDonald, Senior Vice President of
  Marketing, Cabot Creamery
  
• Marie Frolich, Community and Education Project
  Manager for Cabot Creamery
  
• Deb Lowery, Girl Scout leader and Cabot Co-op for
  Communities Patch coordinator
  
• Ann Hoyt, Professor, University of
  Wisconsin-Madison
  
• Senior Girl Scout Megan Novack
• Michigan Cooperative Alliance
• Deb Demetrius, Girl Scout Council of Southwestern
  Connecticut

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Thank you for attending! This webinar was
sponsored byCabot Creamery Cooperative,Nation
al Rural Telecommunications Cooperative,
National Cooperative Business Association