BPR -The Girl Scouts of the USA could be about to implement a huge hike in annual fees amid financial struggles and declining membership numbers.
This weekend, 900 delegates of the GSUSA’s National Council will vote on whether to raise the membership dues for the first time in eight years with the proposed bump up from $25 annually to $85, a whopping 240 percent hike.
“We have collectively acknowledged that a membership dues increase is needed which is greater than the 25 percent (or $6.25) the National Board has authority to approve in a single triennium,” GSUSA President Noorain Khan and CEO Bonnie Barczykowski said in a handbook for the delegates who are set to cast their votes. more
Best way to gain membership, increase dues. NOT.
Boy Scouts did this several years back. They lost a lot of membership aft that. Then they followed up with the big changes that were its death knell. Declining membership, increasing costs, allowing others, allowing other leaders, changing their whole foundation allowing girls, and the massive loss of abuse in the courts have totally destroyed this once wonderful program. All of that after winning their cases to maintain the program for boys only.
https://youtu.be/kFbxNeIGLuA
The GSUSA could boost their membership a lot by actively recruiting pedophiles and hebephiles. They could likely get away with charging them extra.
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Just so you know; there used to be a Boy Scouts and a Girl Scouts. But feminists and the dickless men married to them, decided that equality was not good enough, they wanted superiority, so they killed the Boy Scouts and renamed it Scouting America. And they allowed girls to join as well, so now there are no organizations for just boys, but girls get two different scouting scouting organizations to choose from.
Boys are vilified and girls are lionized, this is where we are at.
Cut dues and push cookies harder.
The Left is always going just the opposite of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.” They’re motto should be “If it ain’t broke, break it.”
I feel very sad about the Boy Scouts, but the Girl Scouts was lost a long, long time ago — at least since they let Planned Parenthood get involved with the org.
Democrats find a way to kill anything wholesome.
Maybe if the Girl Scouts cut ties with “Planned Parenthood” memberships would increase.
Or maybe if they baked their own cookies where each troop could get 100% of the profits rather than about 22%, dues wouldn’t need raised.
Go woke.
Go broke.
https://www.bsacac.org/resources/membership/membership-fees/
We have not supported the Girl scouts since Planned Parenthood and the lesbians took over. When the cute little girls stop me on the way out of the store, to ask if I wanna buy their cookies, I mosey close to their moms and tell them we don’t support Planned Parenthood.
Raise the dues to weed out the “undesirables”. You know, the less wealthy families.
Like Wiliey, I harangue the moms about Abortion Merit Badges®, (fake I made up) at the cookie table. I will not support teaching young girls that murder is okay as long as we haven’t yet named the child.
Decades ago, the Boys Club was ruled unlawful because girls weren’t allowed. We ignored the hint.
Be calm, it’ll get worse.
Plenty of other places for bitter lesbians to troll for impressionable little girls.
I quit buying cookies when girls started to join the boy scouts. What’s wrong with these people?
It wouldn’t be so bad if the morons making the cookies gave you at least 1 cent of the cookie your biting into. Girl Scout cookies have gone by the wayside of ripping you off for any box you order.
$85 is not a lot of money, particularly when you consider all of the other expenses they will incur if they are active through the year.
No, it’s for other reasons that people aren’t signing up.
Maybe disavow Planned Parenthood and stop letting men pretending to be women be involved in any capacity. Do that first and see what a difference it makes.
I believe the ONLY way to save America is to return to ‘common-sense’, ignore liberals and vote Trump.
I’m a lifetime member of Girl Scouts, a former junior troop leader and also a cookie mom. Once a year or so I get a magazine like an annual report and it’s way too woke for me! I like Thin Mints and I always liked the plain Trefoils. Not sure what cookies they have now. I pay no annual dues at all anymore and would not for the present group!
We also had Brownies. And as a girl myself I was in Cadettes for a year. Fun times horse riding and other field trips! Lots of sing along songs. I can only imagine what the meeting are like now 🙁 though many towns no longer have troops. We have to buy cooking from them and they don’t go door to door anymore–I get that there’s too many weirdos out there. We need MAGA so badly!
I Was a group leader back in the 90’s when my daughter joined the girl scouts. Our local branch and other leaders were wonderful – taught the girls lots about self sufficiency, camping, cooking, sewing, etc.
I attended one big gathering of leaders and it was awful. Full of pushy, “women are best!” “Yea, girls” types. Very obvious that they believed not just that girls were different than boys (yes, and that’s good!), but that girls were better than boys.I hated that whole idea and soon my daughter moved on to other interests, and I thankfully never attended another meeting.
Get woke, go broke.
Progressive/Marxist/Satanism infiltrated scouting and like every institution it gets a toe hold in, it took scouting over and destroyed it. Scouting is dead. It’s been dead.
My grandsons are in Boy Scouts. Their all boy troop is linked with an all girl troop. We open and close meetings together but split up. We often have co-ed camp outs and hikes, with multiple adult leaders male and female. We also do boy only and girl only activities. In case your were wondering, all the adult leaders get background checks and most of the men are retired military.
I assume as a fifty year old man I’d be permitted to join the Girl Scouts. All good in my book.