Posts tagged ‘let’s move’
Click the Recipe, Raise $1 for Girl Scouts!
| Kraft Foods has launched a special donation program for the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital and you can help! |
All you have to do is click the favorite recipe page, and Kraft Foods will donate $1 to GSCNC!
On February 10th, the Girl Scouts teamed up with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Kraft Foods to highlight the importance of healthful eating habits and active lifestyles at the Let’s Move! Town Hall. Girl Scouts made nutritious after-school snack recipes with Kraft Foods and elected their favorite recipe.
For every parent or troop leader who clicks the Girl Scouts’ favorite recipe between now and March 11, 2011, Kraft Foods will donate $1 (up to a total of $20,000) to the Girl Scout councils participating in the town hall. The donation is limited to $1 per person.
Forward this email to your friends and share this link on social media. All they have to do is click the link!
Let’s Move! – Perfect fit for Girl Scouts of the Nation’s Capital
On Monday, the First Lady’s Office and the White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships held a Stakeholders Meeting with faith-based and community organizations on the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative. See the White House blog here.
Lidia Soto-Harmon, CEO of the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital, had a seat at the table with nine other faith and community organizations. She shared the message that the Girl Scout Council is excited to join Let’s Move! faith and communities to end childhood obesity. According to Lidia, “it fits perfectly with our goal to build healthy girls in our communities.”
The Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital committed to the following actions:
- We will increase awareness of Let’s Move!, using our website, programs and 4,900 active Girl Scout troops
- We will challenge our 88,000 members in the tri-state region to earn the President’s Active Lifestyle Award (PALA) patch in 2011.
- And, we will promote the President’s Active Lifestyle Challenge in several ways:
- We will incorporate the President’s Active Lifestyle Challenge goals in many of our successful Council programs, camps and troop activities throughout 2011.
- We will promote participation in PALA at our highly-attended Step Showcase at Trinity Washington University in February 2011, which promotes healthy behaviors and demonstrates physical activities for girls in the District of Columbia though high-energy dance routines, reaching 1,500 members.
- We will also bring awareness to the PALA and Let’s Move, for girls with disabilities, at our national Keys to Leadership conference in March 2011, providing guidance to Girl Scout councils across the country on how to make physical activities a part of our inclusion efforts.
