Community Service Needs
Here a ways your Girl Scout troop can help in the community.
Many local organizations, schools and churches need murals!
Many local organizations, schools and churches need murals!
Murals can be a great form of community service, providing beautification or images with valuable messages for hospitals, children's centers, churches and other places in need of beautification. Murals are also great for special interest projects. Please contact Dawn at
or (520) 991-7191 for more information.
The Tucson Wildlife Center Needs Your Help
Is your troop interested in fulfilling the community service component of the following?
- Daisy Community Service Train Car Patch
- Brownie Watching Wildlife Try-It
- Junior Wildlife Badge
- Wildlife IP
The Tucson Wildlife Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to rehabilitating wild animals and birds found injured in the Tucson area. We would be delighted if you could spare any of the following items:
Computer paper, paper towels, hand soap, office supplies, medical supplies, moving blankets, blankets, towels, animal care items, laundry detergent, garbage bags, Ziploc bags, storage containers, shelving, regular bleach, building supplies, heating pads, heat lamps, shade cloth, perches, latex and non-latex gloves, feeding bowls, puppy pads, cleaning supplies, tools, dry erase boards, and heaters, etc.
For more information on their wish list go to: http://www.tucsonwildlife.com.wish_list.htm
Girls Scouts needed to assist local refugees
Iskash*taa Refugee Harvesting Network is a group of volunteers working with African refugees on a project to identify and map food resources growing in Tucson. We are making a computer-generated map and database of fruit trees and garden locations in neighborhoods. Volunteers needed to assist with mapping project and to harvest fruit. Badge earning opportunities available! Contact Barbara at 520-440-0100 or
http://www.fruitmappers.org
The Community Food Bank
The Community Food Bank has learning and service opportunities for our Girl Scouts. The Food Bank has a five-acre vegetable farm located in Marana which is open to the public for tours, growing classes and community farming. What a great opportunity for our Girl Scouts to tour the farm and/or help the Community Food Bank during a Girl Scout Service Day. Please call Varga Garland, Director of the Community Food Bank at (520) 622-0525 for more information.
Volunteer with Tucson Clean & Beautiful
The Tucson Clean & Beautiful Adopt-a-Park program was established in 1985 as a program to combat the growing problem of litter in parks and other public areas. Through this program, McCormick Park and another 100 park sites throughout the Tucson metro area are available now for adoption by community organizations including Girl Scout troops. Troops may volunteer to adopt their neighborhood park by picking up litter and reporting any maintenance needs such as vandalism to help keep the park a clean and safe place to visit. Volunteer groups can plan a one-time litter cleanup project, or if they agree to clean up a public area as an ongoing project, they can receive official Adopt-a-Park recognition including a sign at the adopted site and an Adopt-a-Park ceremony. Troops can also incorporate this program into their Earth, Ecology, or Environment merit badges, and many other projects and badge awards are appropriate to projects that can be done at community parks.
If your Girl Scout troop would be interested in the Adopt-a-Park program, please call B.J. Cordova at Tucson Clean & Beautiful (520-791-3109) or visit http://www.tucsonaz.gov/tcb/tcbaap.htm for more information.
