GSSSC Recently Awarded $10,500 in Grants

GIRL SCOUTS OF SILVER SAGE COUNCIL RECENTLY AWARDED $10,500 IN GRANTS
The Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council (GSSSC) recently received four grant awards totaling $10,500 from The Whittenberger Foundation, the Caldwell Community Foundation, Idaho Community Foundation, and the Idaho Women’s Fitness Celebration Foundation. Funding from these foundations will go toward much needed youth development programs for girls living on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation (on the Idaho-Nevada border), at Farmway Village (outside of Caldwell), and in the Treasure Valley.

GSSSC Receives Grant from The Whittenberger Foundation
The Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council received a $5,000 grant from The Whittenberger Foundation. Funding will help bring the New Girl Scout Leadership Experience troop program to girls on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and send these girls to the American Indian Scouting Association Conference in Pocatello, Idaho during the 2009 summer. The Duck Valley Indian Reservation sits on the Idaho/Nevada border and is home to approximately 2,300 Shoshone-Paiute people. GSSSC has provided quality, sustainable youth programs and opportunities for girls to connect with positive mentors on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation for 15 years.
GSSSC Receives Grant from The Idaho Community Foundation

The Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council received a $1,000 grant from The Idaho Community Foundation.
Funding will help bring the New Girl Scout Leadership Experience troop program to girls on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and send these girls to the American Indian Scouting Association Conference in Pocatello, Idaho during the 2009 summer. The Duck Valley Indian Reservation sits on the Idaho/Nevada border and is home to approximately 2,300 Shoshone-Paiute people. GSSSC has provided quality, sustainable youth programs and opportunities for girls to connect with positive mentors on the Duck Valley Indian Reservation for 15 years.

The Idaho Community Foundation is a statewide nonprofit organization composed of over 370 individual funds, pooled together for efficient management. Total assets are more than $72 million. Since its inception in 1988, ICF has made charitable distributions totaling more than $31 million.

GSSSC Receives Grant from The Caldwell Community Foundation
The Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council received a $2,500 grant from the Caldwell Community Foundation. Funding will go toward providing Girl Scout programs at Farmway Village, a migrant farmworker community on the outskirts of Caldwell. Girls will participate in leadership activities and will have the opportunity to travel during Summer 2009 to a location in the Pacific Northwest.

GSSSC Receives Grant from the Idaho Women’s Fitness Celebration Foundation
The Girl Scouts of Silver Sage Council received a $2,000 grant from the Idaho Women’s Fitness Celebration Foundation to help fund youth development programs in the Treasure Valley. Funding from the Foundation will go towards special programs like College 101, where girls take a tour of a college campus with volunteer mentors from the local Sorority); Visions, an in-school/after-school program that helps girls transition to “teenage-hood” successfully – with confidence and self-esteem; and Science & Technology Day at Micron, where girls learn engineering and science in a fun-filled environment.