Flooding in the area has caused Girl Scouts of Colorado to close Meadow Mountain Ranch and Kiwa Corral this weekend. Both properties are located near Rocky Mountain National Park. #flooding

Submitted by Bobbi Frazier Aurora Troop 64257 in Aurora  showed puppies their love as part of their Brownie Quest community service project. The girls chose to share their time and resources with the rescue dogs from Colorado Puppy Rescue, a local outreach which facilitates adoption and foster homes for rescue dogs. The troop gathered supplies that a new puppy owner could use and made some comfy blankets for the puppies to cuddle up with. Two volunteers from Colorado Puppy Rescue explained what they do and the girls got to entertain their new little friends as well. If you’d like to show some puppy love, you are able to find adoption events through their website at http://coloradopuppy.org/availablepups.html This story was submitted via the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too. #browniequest #ColoradoPuppyRescue #communityservice

We are extremely honored and proud of Girl Scout Troop 1804 of Grand Junction. This troop and their work for their Girl Scout Silver Award, the highest award a middle school Girl Scout can earn, is featured in a new Colorado MAKERS episode produced by Rocky Mountain PBS. Colorado MAKERS highlights the best and brightest of the state’s women and girls leaders and how they are making a difference in their communities. Being that one of the core fundamentals of Girl Scouting is “making the world a better place,” we are honored that Rocky Mountain PBS has helped showcase our story! This exciting honor was also featured in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel over the weekend. Story posted by Amanda Kalina, PR Director, Girl Scouts of Colorado [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CotdjR3azI&w=560&h=315] #RockyMountainPBS #SilverAward #ColoradoMAKERS #communityservice #GrandJunction #WesternSlope #SpecialNeeds #TakeAction #GirlScouts #Colorado

There’s a great new incentive to donating to this year’s Family and Friends Giving Campaign, which benefits our Opportunity Grants fund! If you are one of the first 250 donors who makes a donation of at least $20 starting last Friday, Sept. 6th, through our #STARTARYOT campaign, you will earn yourself two tickets to the preseason Colorado Avalanche hockey game against the Dallas Stars on Sept. 24th at 7 p.m. What’s great about this year’s campaign is it is a peer to peer fundraising campaign. So you are encouraged to start a fundraising page and ask friends and family to make a donation (they are also eligible for the Avs tickets if they make a donation of $20+). Last year Girl Scouts of Colorado awarded $145,495 in financial assistance through Opportunity Grants fund. These funds went to help girls go to camp, events, travel and pay for their dues and program materials as finances are never a reason a girl can’t be involved in Girl Scouts. These grants make a big difference! Just hear what some of these Opportunity Grants beneficiaries have gained through Girl Scouts: “I had a great time at camp this year. I learned how to trot and lope for the first time during Rodeo Camp, which really boosted my self-esteem. I also worked on teamwork with my cabin mates.” “I was never a Girl Scout because my family couldn’t afford it, and I couldn’t afford to have my daughter involved without a GSCO Opportunity Grant. I have 15 girls from Daisies to Ambassadors in my troop, and we’ve been able to purchase uniforms with our grant. I can’t tell you what a difference in self-esteem a uniform makes for girls. They have been so grateful for their experiences and taken pride in giving back to others with projects like conducting a toiletry drive for a homeless shelter. Girl Scouts has meant so much to my girls, I want to share it with more girls, so I am helping to recruit girls at schools who have never had Girl Scouts. These girls are jumping up and down with excitement and can’t wait to be Girl Scouts!” “I am a single, stay-at-home mother of seven special needs, adopted children, each with unique qualities I cherish. Some of my children struggle more in life than others. Growing up, I have fond memories of being a Girl Scout, so it was important for me to give my girls the same positive experiences. I have two Cadettes, and they love Girl Scouts! After every meeting, they come home talking my ear off, and they have had more experiences than I could ever give them; and that is what makes me happy. I have a very tight income, and there is never much for extras, so if it was not for the GSCO Opportunity Grant, this would have never been possible for my girls. They have gained self-esteem, pride in themselves and their work, the ability to push themselves and the smiles of success! My daughter is moderately developmentally delayed, and it causes problems for her. At Girl Scouts, she has been able to be herself and be accepted, which is huge for her! Our Girl Scout experience has made me want to be a better person and spend more time with my children, so I have signed up to be the cookie manager for the troop this year. I think it will help all my children understand that even if you think you have a lot on your plate, there’s always room for the most important things, like Girl Scouts!” Make a donation to Girl Scouts of Colorado’s Opportunity Grants fund today through #STARTARYOT Posted by Amanda Kalina, PR Director, Girl Scouts of Colorado #FamilyandFriendsCampaign #donation #ColoradoAvalanche #opportunitygrant #GirlScouts #Colorado

ATTENTION Girl Scouts of Colorado!  We’ve been compiling list of riding facilities and instructors throughout Colorado as a reference for Girl Scouts. Below is what we have so far. If you know of a place or instructor that would be good to have on list, please add them to this blog! Some will offer discounts to Girl Scouts or large groups, but anyone wanting to register with any listed groups will need to ask or confirm with that location since this offer sometimes changes. To keep the list from being too long, there are two websites included that are a general data base for CHA certified instructors and for trailriding facilities. We will continue to add to this as we get more information. HAPPY RIDING! Riding facilities and liveries: Some may offer scout discounts, some offer group discounts. . .groups registering will need to ask to clarify when they register or contact these facilities. Also, some are seasonal and not open in winter. Near Magic Sky Ranch Sundance Trail Guest Ranch – Dan 17931 Red Feather Lakes Rd  Red Feather Lakes, CO 80545 (970) 224-1222 Beaver Meadows Ranch Resort – 100 Marmot Dr #1  Red Feather Laks, CO 80545 (970) 881-2450 Near Meadow Mountain Ranch Sombrero Stables – Allenspark Livery  Allenspark village 303-747-2551 Peaceful Valley Ranch – 475 Peaceful Valley Road  Lyons, CO  303-747-2881 Glacierview – may offer rides to public  303-459-0771 Sombrero Stables – Estes Park  Hwy 34 Estes Park, CO  970-586-4577 Elkhorn Lodge – O’Dells Trail Rides 600 W Elkhorn Ave  Estes Park, CO 80517 (970) 402-1486 Near Tomahawk Ranch Northfork Ranch – Karen  55395 U.S. 285  Shawnee, CO 80475 (303) 838-9873 Bear Mt Stables – 11778 Wonder Drive  Conifer, Colorado  80433  http://www.bearmtnstables.com/ Bear Creek Lake Park Stable – 303-697-9666 Near Sky High Ranch Historic Triple B Ranch  – 27640 Hwy 67  Woodland Park, Colorado 80866  Phone: (719) 687-8899 Academy Riding Stables-  4 El Paso Blvd, Colorado Springs, CO     (719) 633-5667 Lessons: Colorado Riding Academy – offers the patch program for Daisies and Brownies  Office: 303 840 7105 / Cell: 303 243 1513  7062 Rafter Road, Franktown, Colorado  near Parker, CO info@coloradoridingacademy.net  http://www.coloradoridingacademy.net/ Quintessential Arabians/Camp Kit’N’Kaboodle 25935 Judge Orr Road Calhan, Colorado 80808 719-683-9043 Joanne – Milemakers – endurance riding  PO Box 282  Larkspur, CO 80118  (303) 249-7630 Equine 808 Horse Rescue – Colorado Offers summer program  Ellicott, CO (719) 213-9144 For lessons: CHA Certified riding instructors – http://cha-ahse.org/store/pages/42/Instructor-Recertification.html For Trailrides: CDGRA Colorado Dude Guest Ranch Association http://www.coloradoranch.com/ Sombrero Riding Stables – locations statewide – http://www.sombrero.com Dude Ranch Association – http://www.duderanch.org/colorado-dude-ranch Keystone Stables – West Keystone Keystone, CO 80435  /  800-354-4386 Gateway Canyons  43200 Hwy 141  Gateway, CO 81522   970.931.2458 Rim Rock Adventures 927 HWY 340 Fruita, Colorado 81521  970-858-9555 C Lazy U Ranch 3640 Colorado 125  Granby, CO 80446 / (970) 887-3344 Elk Mountain Ranch PO Box 910  Buena Vista, Colorado / Toll Free: 1-800-432-8812 Glenwood Adventure Company / 723 Cooper Ave /Glenwood Springs, CO 81601 / 1-877-346-4536 Sylvan Dale Guest Ranch 2939 N. County Road 31D Loveland, Colorado USA 80538-9763 Toll Free: (877) 667-3999 #camping #Horsebackriding #Program #horses #GirlScouts #Colorado

25133josie teaching kick Submitted by Josie Natrasevschi Northern Colorado & Northeastern Colorado 1 out of 4 women are attacked while in college. This was the case for my sister as well as a statistic. I have been working on my Girl Scout Gold Award project, “Protect Yourself.” I teach young women to protect themselves with self-defense, travel in groups and watch out for each other. You go with a friend to a party and you leave with that friend. You have each other’s back and watch each other’s drink. I addressed the issue of sexual assault in my project. This issue revolves around the practice of knowingly causing another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat. It is also one of the most prominent issues in the world being that every two minutes someone in the United States man or woman is sexually assaulted. My target audiences ranges from students of the age 14 to students to the age 17 due to the fact that those within the ages 16 to 19 are four times more likely than the general population to be victims of rape, attempted rape, or sexual assault. After participants finish the class they gain basic self-defense skills as well as strategic thinking methods that will aid in surviving an assault. Through participating in the project many find themselves with confidence, that previously they were lacking in. This project also provided information about sexual assault and what to watch out for when traveling alone or in a group so as to avoid being assaulted. The project will be sustained beyond my direct involvement by the teachers that I trained to teach the class. They will put the course in the classes they teach and will continue doing so long after I graduated. Sexual assault is a global issue and is seen all over the world as shown by the startling statistics: “An estimated 150 million girls under 18 suffered some form of sexual violence in 2002 alone”(saynotoviolence.org) and in the multiple articles and news exposes that focus on the issue of sexual assault alone, a few of the more startling being “In a Global First, Global Data on Violence Against Women” by Dan Morrison of National Geographic , and “Egypt: Epidemic of Sexual Violence” by Human Rights Watch. Throughout my project I encountered numerous set backs. Among all of my set backs the largest one was without doubt the numerous hardships me and my family went through last year. They ranged from a friend taking his own life to my grandmother passing away, with a few unfortunate additions in between. It was little more than a miracle that I was in fact able to overcome the emotional torrent that was my life but I did so with the help of my troop and my friends who encouraged me to continue to pursue my passions. Among my few passions this project resides and I relentlessly moved step by step foreword until I finally completed it. In order to inspire others I took many different approaches. I first created a blog http://protecty0urself.wordpress.com/ to address widespread issues and promote change. I then dove head first into teaching anyone I could, the skills that were imparted unto me by my instructor Chet Barnett who most generously donated his time to train me. I taught people at Fossil Ridge High School, Girls State in Gunnison CO, at the National Youth Leadership Forum in Boston to my group the Nightingales, at Brown University to my floor in the dorms, and lastly to the teachers at Fort Collins High School. I learned that despite how daunting a task may seem it is possible to complete and improve it with enough hard work and dedication. That being said this project force fed me a dose of humility and surprised me by transforming my outlook on life. It made me look for the genuine good in people and to stop taking things so personally because I now realize that I don’t actually know what is going on in their lives and I have no place to judge them without first knowing the full and comprehensive story behind their actions. Another thing I learned about myself was that I could do something special, that I could change the world. I am most proud of the fact that whoever is touched by this project will be more prepared to take on the world head on. They will be less hindered by the fears that come with living alone or walking the streets at night because of the information that they learned by taking the class. I have taught them to be safe and know that they are safer just by taking my class. I developed healthy relationships of trust and respect between myself and those I taught. I have learned how to teach, speak, and communicate effectively. I also developed a deep connection to my community, locally and globally by teaching the class to those who live as close as Fort Collins and as far as China. I identified a community issue, sexual assault and decided to make a difference both locally and globally by developing a class and blogging. In doing so I ran into a couple of problems a major one being how to make my project sustainable but I solved that by resolving to train the teachers in my school the program. Throughout my project I felt empowered to make a difference in the world and I acted on that empowerment by educating as many as I could about sexual assault and self-defense. I’d like to Thank Chet Barnett of: Krav Maga self-defense (2439 South College Ave Unit C2, Fort Collins, CO 80525) for training me in self-defense for my Girl Scout Gold Award project. Thank Mrs. Neal of Fossil Ridge High School for participating in my program with her class. A special shout out to Coach Conrad Crist Fort Collins High School who helped me complete my project. I published an article about my project in the Fort Collins Coloradoan. [youtube http://youtube.com/w/?v=10KRJ6s0xNM] 25133teaching protect your face 25133know your stance This story was submitted via the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too. #FortCollins #GoldAward #selfdefense #sexualassault

We’re listening to our volunteers and working to make changes to our systems to better support you!! In response to popular demand, the Girl Scouts of Colorado shop will now offer no-cost courier services for items purchased by email to our Colorado Springs and Ft. Collins Service Centers. Here’s the scoop on how you can take advantage of this opportunity: 1. Go to our online shop to pick out the items that you would like to purchase (if you choose to place your order on the website, shipping charges will apply). Please note that the online store may include merchandise that is not available through our local Colorado store, and must be purchased online. When our Retail Associate contacts you to collect payment (see step 3), she will verify that the items you selected are available for this service. • To get a “feel” for the merchandise before ordering, you can also stop by the Colorado Springs or Ft. Collins Service Centers and check out uniform and program book samples. 2. Email retail@gscolorado.org with a list of the items that you would like to purchase and indicate to which service center you would like them delivered. Please include a contact number. 3. A GSCO Retail Associate will contact you to verify your order and collect your credit card payment. 4. Your order will be delivered to the service center listed in your email order. Once your order arrives, we will call to notify you that it is ready for pick up. Items will be delivered at least once every two weeks. #Colorado #GirlScouts #shipping #shop

Submitted by Scott Earley Western Slope I am new to Girl Scouts this year and this was my first time at camp. I really liked camp a lot! I have a REALLY great leader Miss Dena she took me to camp this year. The thing I liked best about camp was the songs. I learned lots of new songs that I shared with my family. The other thing I liked a lot was the ropes that go across the lake, I fell in the water and it was very funny. Thank you for letting me come to camp I had a lot of FUN! This story was submitted via the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too #camp

[slideshow] Submitted by Judy Moisey Asay Arvada-Golden-Westminster Troop 548 sold over 5,000 boxes of cookies this year and used the money to fund their summer trip. They voted to go rafting and explore southern Colorado by visiting the Sand Dunes and Zapata Falls. The girls and moms rafted the Arkansas River with Arkansas River Tours and had a great time on the river in Bighorn Sheep Canyon. Afterwards the troop headed for the Sand Dunes where they climbed High Dune, the 2nd highest dune in the park. We also went to the Visitor Center and watched the interpretive programs about the park. The troop attended an ice cream social at the campground center to finish off the evening. The final morning, we hiked to Zapata Falls near the Sand Dunes Park. It was a very cold hike as we waded through the stream to get to the falls. The weather was great and the girls and moms had an awesome time. Who knows where we will go next?? This story was submitted via the Share Your Stories form. You can share your Girl Scout moments too #ArkansasRiver #SandDunes #travel #Troop548

We know that the staffing and structural changes discussed in previous posts are difficult changes both for our staff and volunteers. Despite the fact that many of these changes were motivated by our financial limitations, we are dedicated to using our retraction as a motivation to take a fresh look at our systems and processes and create a streamlined system that makes life easier for our volunteers. With that in mind, we are proud to announce the following changes (effective immediately), designed to help empower our volunteers and help Girl Scouts of Colorado return to our grassroots origins. Our Program team has worked exceptionally hard to design and prepare these changes on a short timeline. I hope that you will agree that, although we know we have additional ground to cover, these changes are giant steps towards improving our support of our most valuable asset, volunteers. With our new processes, you will find it easier to: Complete most requests online We are introducing a new online form tool, through Adobe Forms Central that provides a much improved experience with online forms. All of the new processes below utilize this advanced system and we will continue to update our old forms with this new software. Set up & change signers on bank accounts Whenever your group needs to open a new bank account or change the authorized signers, just submit the new Bank Account Authorization Request form online. As long as the new signers have completed the volunteer application process, you’ll receive an email with an authorization letter to take to the bank. We also made it easier to access the guidelines for managing group finances. Help a girl find a troop We have made some improvements to our interest form too. As a volunteer, you can send this link to anyone who needs help finding a troop – or you could even fill it out on their behalf, with permission of course. We have dedicated staff Recruitment Specialists and volunteers around the state who work with families to find and start troops for new Girl Scouts. Plan a group money earning activity Troop/Group Leaders are approved to coordinate group money earning activities. Written approval for each activity is no longer required. Just follow these group money earning guidelines and we’ll ask you to how it went on your Annual Troop Report next year. If you need help planning a money earning activity or have any questions about the guidelines, contact your Program Support Specialist. Plan an overnight or extended trip Volunteers who have taken the required travel training(s) are approved to coordinate overnight trips (1-2 nights, including sleepovers) and extended trips (3 or more nights). Written approval for each trip is no longer required, just submit a simple Overnight & Extended Trip Notification to let us know the basic trip details in case of an emergency situation. We trust that the Trip Advisor will follow the troop travel guidelines. Your Program Support Specialist is available to help if you have any questions or need some advice. Note: If your overnight or extended trip is at a GSCO property, you don’t need to submit a notification because we’ll have your trip details in your site reservation. Apply for an Opportunity Grant Every girl should have the opportunity to be a Girl Scout! We have a new Opportunity Grant Application that can be submitted by a parent/guardian or troop volunteer online. Grants are awarded up to 80% and are available for: • uniforms & books • camp (day & overnight) • Council-sponsored programs (events, series, travel) • adult learning opportunities • GSUSA destinations An application is not needed for financial assistance for girl/adult memberships or volunteer background checks. Opportunity Grants are not available for troop-planned travel. Receive Troop Sponsorship funds A Troop Sponsorship is a monetary donation of $250 or more that is made payable to Girl Scouts of Colorado with the intention of being transferred to a specific troop/group, per the donor’s request. Internally we made some changes so we can process these requests quickly. If your group ever receives a donation of $250 or more, and the donor needs an acknowledgement letter for tax purposes, submit the new Troop Sponsorship Notification online and have the check sent to the Denver Service Center with a note from the donor to designate the gift to your troop. Your troop may accept monetary donations of any amount directly, but the donor will not receive an acknowledgement letter for their gift – that’s why we provide this service to troops! Get the Best in Volunteer Training First, we are removing the cost to volunteers for nearly all adult trainings and reducing the cost for the few that will retain a small fee. We are also increasing the frequency of trainings. Specifically, Nuts and Bolts, our primary training for new volunteers will be offered at least weekly through our online training platform to help new troop leaders get started right away. Finally, we are introducing new age-level trainings this fall to help you feel comfortable presenting programming for your specific age group(s). Find Great Program Resources We are releasing several new program materials that will help make program planning easier. The Service Unit Event Planning Guide (and program templates) will help you plan your event or camp! Program templates will also soon be online for you to use. #online #parents #programs #processes #forms #GirlScouts #Colorado #volunteers

From Girl Scout alumna Katie Conn, Miss Centennial, from Colorado Springs and a current student at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs I am proud to be a Girl Scout alum! I was a Girl Scout until I graduated from high school and earned my Bronze Award as well as traveled to Italy in 2009 with my troop, among other exciting activities. And on June 27-29, 2013, I competed in the Miss. Colorado Pageant. After 12 years of active Girl Scouting, I could see a lot of parallels between the two organizations. I think Girl Scouts helped prepare me for the pageant, because Girl Scouts is more than just selling cookies and Miss. Colorado is more than just looking pretty. I thought a good way to show what I learned in Girl Scouts and how it helped me prepare for Miss. Colorado was to talk about my Miss. Colorado experience as it relates to the Girl Scout Law: Honest and fair: In competing for Miss. Colorado, the interview is a significant portion of your score. It is also the best way to let the judges get to know you as a person, to learn who you are and your personality. Being yourself is the best way to do that. The judges don’t want cookie-cutter answers, and “world peace” isn’t the go-to response. Honesty and personality will shine through into everything you say, and that’s the only way for the judges to fairly judge you in interview. Friendly and helpful: Miss. Congeniality is probably a more rewarding title than Miss. Colorado. Miss. Congeniality is the contestant voted friendliest and most helpful out of all the girls there. It’s easy to see when someone is simply being nice just to win Miss. Congeniality versus when someone is truly the sweetest person in Colorado and is completely deserving of the title. Considerate and caring: Part of the Miss. America entrance requirement is to raise money for the Children’s Miracle Network. The Children’s Miracle Network is a system of hospitals all around the country that does so much good for young people all around us. We visited the Children’s Hospital in Denver before our competition, and it brought such joy to everyone we visited to have these beautiful and kind women being so cheerful and sweet despite their medical problems. Courageous and strong: It takes a lot of self-respect to get up on a stage in front of so many people, especially in the swimsuit portion of the competition, where you’re onstage in little more than your underwear. All the contestants prepared for the swimsuit competition by working out and eating healthy, things we should all be doing anyway. And just look at how wonderful they looked onstage! But the most important part of the swimsuit competition is your confidence. The prettiest part of a girl is her smile! Responsible for what I say and do: As a Miss. Colorado contestant, you have a title (mine is Miss. Centennial). When you make appearances, such as our trip to Coors Field to be introduced at a Rockies game and to sign autographs, no one looks at you as a person, they look at you as sort of a celebrity. It’s a fantastic feeling, but everything you say and do is scrutinized carefully. You can’t speak meanly about anyone (even the other team) or run around like a banshee. You must be calm and eloquent and sweet, even if you make a mistake and spill ketchup on your shirt. And to respect myself and others: Every girl competing at the pageant dreams of being Miss. Colorado. Every girl there deserves to be Miss. Colorado. You can’t put anyone down or judge them; that’s not your job. Your job is to A) be the best “you” you can be, and B) help others be the best “them” that they are. Compliments mean a lot to everyone, and at a pageant like this with so many beautiful, talented and sweet women, everyone feels a little insecure. The best outcome of the Miss. Colorado pageant isn’t winning the title of Miss. Colorado, but feeling like you’ve grown as a person. Respect authority: Everything at the pageant is scheduled, choreographed and practiced to a “T.” The fantastic crew of people who work so hard to put this pageant on deserve so much respect. They not only handle the Miss. Colorado pageant itself, but all the local pageants leading up to the state pageant, all the paperwork for them, getting (and keeping) sponsors, signing up a panel of judges and making the information books for them, answering questions for the contestants, and making sure that everyone is on track. It is a job and a half, and on behalf of all the Miss. Colorado contestants, I’d like to thank them for all their hard work. Use resources wisely: Competing in the Miss. Colorado competition does cost money! As it’s a scholarship organization, the entry fees aren’t what costs money, but the outfits do. Each contestant needs a swimsuit, an evening gown, an interview outfit, a talent outfit, an opening number outfit, an on-stage question outfit, shoes and accessories for each outfit, and a zillion other things. If you spend all your money on the evening gown, it will be beautiful, but the rest of your categories won’t look as nice. It’s a better idea to spread your money out. Buy what you absolutely need to, and any extra money can go to buying the dress that maybe isn’t your dream dress, but looks beautiful and fits your budget. Make the world a better place: Each contestant is required to have a platform. A platform is some issue you feel strongly about or an organization you really support. Organizations are usually non-profits, not businesses. My platform was gathering money and support to build a place for homeless people to sleep at night to get them off the street, which is both a dangerous and unhealthy place to live. All the community service projects you do as a Girl Scout can directly relate to a platform, and if you find that your Bronze, Silver and/or Gold Awards are all related to the same thing, you have a platform already. And be a sister to every Girl Scout: Competing in the Miss. Colorado pageant was a wonderful experience for me. I didn’t win, but I made so many friends there, and I’ll be proud to watch one of them take the stage at the Miss. America pageant soon. Although I was competing against them, these girls were a fantastic support network for me during the entire pageant. They made the first year I competed so much fun, and I will definitely be returning next year for a “Round Two!” Posted by Amanda Kalina, PR Director, Girl Scouts of Colorado #ColoradoSprings #MissColorado #GirlScouts #Colorado #alumnaestories #GirlScoutLaw #leadership

Improvements to eBiz  (the online GSUSA registration system where we all register for membership, events and trainings) will be complete in mid-August, making a smoother online process. We’ve had a sneak peak at the updated system and it’s a vast improvement. These are some of the upgrades you’ll see: Manage your whole family with a single login See all of your family’s activities, regardless of registration method See all orders placed online on behalf of your family Manage membership renewals and new memberships for your whole family Make multiple purchases all at once, being able to purchase memberships for your family and also purchase event registrations for them at the same time. An improved search functionality, finding activities based on grade level, location or type of program Note: In order for the updates to launch, the ebiz site will be unavailable Aug. 9-14. All adults will be required to create a New Online Account to gain access to the system following the upgrade. You can reuse your old user name and password when creating your new online account if you choose. With your new online account, you will be able to manage yourself, your family and/or troop(s) depending on your current participation status. For example, a troop leader who has a daughter participating in Girl Scouts will be able to manage both her family and troop(s) with a single login. Watch for more information via email, our website and blog about how to create the new account on Aug. 12. This exciting upgrade happening to our online registration website is funded and led by Girl Scouts of the USA.  They have been gathering member feedback over the past couple years and have revamped our online registration site to make sure it is more user friendly and easier for Girl Scout members, volunteers and future leaders. The improved technology experience will not be coming out of Girl Scouts of Colorado’s lean budget. If you have questions or concerns about the upgrade, feel free to contact Customer Support at inquiry@gscolorado.org. #ebiz #registration