Our amazing CEO posed this question to the staff at our staff planning retreat last week. I thought the answers were inspiring and that others might enjoy seeing them as well. Perhaps you might be inspired to be a guest blogger and share what you would change about the Movement if you could.
- Reach out to non profits who may have laid off employees for volunteers
- Make it cool
- Include outlying areas more
- Expand on amazing customer service
- Help volunteers feel valued
- Asking volunteers and parents to register to support the movement
- Cultivate a staff culture of service
- Make Personify more user friendly
- Hold all members accountable to girls
- Ask a girl
- Serve a more diverse population
- Add a Southwest Tucson Resource Center
- More accessible leadership experience
- Cultural differences embraced
- Serve more in the refugee community
- Include girls in fund raising efforts
- More diverse staff
- Staff learn more about other cultures
- Staff traveling teams
- Staff should all learn Spanish
- All girls served in all initiatives
- Balance the levels out- task force for older girls
- Advocacy- we are responsible for all girls in So. AZ
- Offer trainings to schools on girl issues
- Be purposeful about inclusion
- Improve staff/board relations
- Budget cure
- Successful SHARE campaign
- Raise the bar
- New Building
- Service mindset
- Clear messaging
- Hispanic growth in membership
- GS is for everyone (all economic levels)
- Adult retention
- Outdoor activities as a means for healthy living
- Tell our story
- Be at the table for every conversation in the community that involves girls
- Estate donations
- Amazing technology and satellite locations
- Increase membership in outlying areas
- Staff volunteer in other organizations
- Increase advocacy for LGBT youth
- Asking people to pay for membership and programs instead of assuming they can’t
- Virtual pathway
- Personify better
- Outlying areas
- Hispanic families
- Exchange program with the Guias in Mexico
- Quarterly retreat/gathering
- Accountability with each other
- Helping others, but being honest with our own capabilities (don’t stretch too thin)
- Staff retention
- Career paths
- Team building and appreciation
- Build relationships with businesses in the neighborhood
- Grow outlying areas
- Transparency- staff and membership
- Expand outlying areas
- Online proficiency for staff and membership
- Properties as program centers and use to full potential
- Year round camp offerings
- Increased support for outlying areas
- Measure outcomes better- what are girls thinking/feeling?
- Every parent participate
- Go places we aren’t
- More places for outdoor experiences (program centers)
- More positive media attention on GS
- More donors for girl travel
- Grow outside uses of camp
- Strong volunteers for social justice
- Utilize non traditional volunteer mores
- More cross initiative programming
- Better communication internally and externally
- Make us cool again
- GS Mecca
- Increase Hispanic families and family volunteers
- Maintain updated troop lists with current info
- Increased parking
- See change as a positive thing
