Online Support for Volunteers

We’ve got you, Girl Scout volunteers!

When you volunteer with Girl Scouts, you’ll uncover new strengths and build on them. And we’re here to help you shine.

Check out these online resources and training courses that you can access whenever, wherever to make the most of your volunteer experience.

My GS

My GS is your Girl Scout home base and how you access other great tools to manage the Girl Scout experience for your family and troop! By logging into My GS in the upper right-hand corner you can:

• Manage your Girl Scout membership and all the memberships in your household and troop(s).
• Find exciting in-person and virtual events for your Girl Scout, your family, or your troop to attend.
• Maintain your contact information, preferences and manage any changes within your troop.
• Access essential tools like the Volunteer Toolkit and gsLearn to make your Girl Scout volunteer experience a breeze!

Volunteer Toolkit

The Volunteer Toolkit is your official source for delivering easy, fun troop meetings year-round! This fully customizable digital planning tool is accessible on any computer, tablet, or mobile device and provides you with Girl Scout program content, award requirements, and other resources.

Through the Volunteer Toolkit, troop leaders can:

• Plan the troop’s calendar year.
• View the troop roster and email families with one click.
• View badges, Journeys and awards for all program levels including prepopulated tracks for younger and older Multi-Level troop groups (K–5 and 6–12).
• Explore meeting plans that show a breakdown of every meeting, including a list of materials needed and editable time allotments for each activity within a meeting.
• Record girls’ attendance at meetings and their badge and Journey achievements.
• Add council or custom troop events to the troop’s calendar.
• Enter the troop’s finances (depending on the council’s process).
• Easily locate resources both national and local council resources, such as Safety Activity Checkpoints.

The Volunteer Toolkit isn’t just for troop leaders!
Caregivers and administrative volunteers can have access too.

• Caregivers of Girl Scouts in a troop can see troop financial reports, download their attendance and achievement record and stay up-to-date on the great things the troop is doing throughout the year.
• Individually registered Girl Scouts and their caregivers can access badges, Journeys and awards to take charge of their experience individually.
• Administrative volunteers can see a demo version of the Volunteer Tookit to see all the programming available to troops and families, as well as provide support and training to their local volunteers.

Ready to learn more?
Check out the Volunteer Toolkit trainings in gsLearn before you start.Click on My GS in the upper right-hand corner to login and access gsLearn and the Volunteer Toolkit.

Caregivers
Check out our easy-access trainings available on YouTube!

gsLearn

gsLearn is Girl Scouts’ official online and on demand training platform. Confident leaders are prepared leaders, and these online learnings will give you all the info you need to be a great troop leader.

gsLearn isn’t just for volunteers! All members have access to this great tool. Click on myGS in the upper right-hand corner to login and check it out.

gsZoom

Zoom is an easy, reliable video conferencing and messaging platform with powerful security, that works across mobile and desktop devices. Safely meet with your Girl Scouts and families through virtual meetings to stay in-touch when meeting in-person is difficult. GsZoom is our unique partnership with Zoom organization to provide this essential product at a vastly reduced price point for our volunteers.

Think virtual meetings are for you? Contact us to get started!

The Volunteer Toolkit is a digital resource that supports troop leaders and co-leaders, making the process of running a troop easier and more efficient.

Through the Volunteer Toolkit, troop leaders can:

• Plan the troop’s calendar year.
• Email parents with one click.
• View the troop roster, renew girls’ membership, and update girls' contact information.
• View Daisy through Ambassador Journeys and badges (to plan for troop meetings), including prepopulated tracks for younger and older Multi-Level troop groups (K–5 and 6–12).
• Customize meetings by troop year with other badge and Journey options.
• Explore individual meeting plans that show a breakdown of every meeting, including a list of materials needed and editable time allotments for each activity within a meeting.
• Record girls’ attendance at meetings and their badge and Journey achievements.
• Add council or custom troop events to the troop’s calendar.
• Enter the troop’s finances (depending on the council’s process).
• Easily locate resources both national and local council resources, such as Safety Activity Checkpoints.
  

Girl Scout Volunteers are our heroes. When they selflessly give of their time, talents and hearts to help us build girls of courage, confidence and character, they make every adventure possible. They help us cheer on our girls to empower them to believe and know that they can do and be anything they dream of.

That’s why we created the Volunteer Toolkit, a digital planning tool built with our amazing volunteers in mind. Full of easy-to-use and fully customizable tools, the Volunteer Toolkit helps you leave the stack of books behind, and successfully manage your troop right from your computer, phone or tablet—cool!

• Plan your full troop year
• Manage your troop finances
• Access your girl and family roster
• Track your girls’ achievements and attendance
• And so much more!

We want to help make the new world of Girl Scouting easy to navigate!

Click on a topic below to find cool video demos or step-by-step instructions, and we will continue to add more as we go along.

• Renewal
  Are you trying to renew a current Girl Scout? Find instructions here
  
  
• Volunteer Toolkit
  Learn more about the Volunteer Toolkit with this quick demo video from GSME! We are also hosting some webinars about the Volunteer Toolkit.

We are here for you!
If you have questions or need help, please contact our Customer Care team at 888-922-4763 or customercare@gsmaine.org.