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As government officials debate how to handle the influx of new arrivals, the Girl Scouts — whose Troop 6000 has served kids who live in the shelter system since 2017 — are quietly welcoming ...
Troop 6000 is unlike any other Girl Scout group in the country. It was launched in 2017 to serve families living in temporary housing in the New York City shelter system.
Troop 6000 was founded as a result of suggestions from Jimmy Van Bramer, a New York City Councilmember, and Giselle Burgess, a community engagement specialist for Girl Scouts of Greater New York, who was living in a homeless shelter with her children at the time. The proposal was met with enthusiastic support by the Girl Scouts organization.
If you are in need of a Girl Scout cookie troop to support, consider Troop 6000.
Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee serves over 14,000 girls and has 7,000 adult volunteers in 39 Tennessee counties. Nashville had its first troop in 1917 and Nashville Girl Scout Council was chartered in 1926. In 1958 a reorganization led to Cumberland Valley Girl Scout Council covering 20 counties in Tennessee and southern Kentucky.
Belle received the 2018 Edward R. Murrow Award for Feature Reporting for her story on the homeless Girl Scout troop at Mary's Place, a Seattle women's shelter. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In 2024, Belle's television program The Nosh with Rachel Belle began on Cascade PBS .
A local Scout was volunteering at a local food pantry with his family when he noticed that the nonprofit could use new furnishing. So, Simon Starnes, 14, a Life Scout with Boy Scout Troop 21 ...
Seven years ago, Burgess, a single mother of six, built Troop 6000 from the ground up after losing her rental home to developers. While living in a hotel-turned-shelter, she got the idea of creating a troop for girls like her daughters. It was the height of “NIMBYism,” she says, the not-in-my-backyard movement opposed to local homeless ...