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NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) today announced that it had retained Edelman, the world's largest independent public relations firm, to lead its media engagement efforts related to the organization's centennial celebration in 2012. Edelman will provide strategic counsel, as well as media relations, consumer engagement and issues management support as Girl Scouts readies to launch a national celebration as part of its anniversary designed...
ATLANTA, Aug. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- When is the best time to send email? It is a question marketers are constantly contemplating. Silverpop(TM), the only provider of a scalable, integrated email marketing and marketing automation platform provides an answer with its Send Time Optimization feature by sending email messages at the time each recipient is most likely to be checking his or her inbox. By using this feature The Girl Scouts of the USA experienced a 10 percent increase in average...
Join Girl Scouts of the USA to Support Media Literacy and Positive Images of Women WASHINGTON, July 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC), Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D- WI), and Geena Davis, Academy Award winning actor and founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, campaigned in support of the Healthy Media for Youth Act. Joined by teen Girl Scouts, the group outlined the bill, introduced by Hagan and Baldwin, which would improve media literacy for...
NEW YORK, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) joined the American Medical Association (AMA) in urging advertisers to promote healthy media images. The AMA, the largest association of physicians and medical students in the United States, voted yesterday to adopt a new policy to "encourage advertising associations to work with public and private sector organizations concerned with child and adolescent health to develop guidelines for...
LOS ANGELES, May 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Roland Corporation U.S. and Girl Scouts of the USA have announced a Chicago stop on Saturday, May 14 and a New York City stop on May 21st, in conjunction with the national tour of the new Girl Scouts Rock! Initiative, which includes workshops designed to inspire and empower girls through music. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, go to: http://multivu.prnewswire.com/mnr/girlscoutsrock/46002/ (Photo:...
New "Healthy MEdia" Commission to Promote Positive Images of Women and Girls WASHINGTON, April 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Geena Davis, Academy Award-winning Actor and Founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, and Deborah Taylor Tate, former FCC Commissioner, today joined together to launch Healthy MEdia: Commission for Positive Images of Women and Girls. Joined by Commission members, media partners, and teenage Girl Scouts, Davis and Tate launched the Commission...
And win up to $20,000 to patent it in inaugural First® Global Innovation AwardA group of Girl Scouts from Ames, Iowa, has invented a prosthetic hand device to help a three-year-old girl write and will receive up to $20,000 to patent their invention as the winner of the inaugural FIRST® LEGO® League (FLL®) Global InnovationAward, presented by the X PRIZE Foundation.The 11- to 13-year-old girls, an FLL all Girl Scout team named Flying Monkeys, topped 179 submissions from 16...
NEW YORK, April 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of Girl Scouts from Ames, Iowa, has invented a prosthetic hand device to help a three-year-old girl write and will receive up to $20,000 to patent their invention as the winner of the inaugural FIRST(®)( )LEGO(®) League (FLL(®)) Global Innovation Award, presented by the X PRIZE Foundation. The 11- to 13-year-old girls, an FLL all Girl Scout team named Flying Monkeys, topped 179 submissions from 16 countries with BOB-1, a...
Former Girl Scouts and Georgetown Cupcake owners Sophie LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis earn their cooking badge with local Girl Scouts WASHINGTON, March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former Girl Scouts and Georgetown Cupcake owners Sophie LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis teach Girl Scouts how to bake while offering the girls inspirational advice on how to follow your dreams on DC CUPCAKES on TLC, Friday, April 1 at 10:30 PM (ET/PT). Batter will splatter and icing will fly as the...
Girl Scouts in northeast Ohio who are adapting to modern times in how they do business. The beret and vest-clad girls are completing an increased number of cookie sales by being able to accept credit cards using a device called GoPayment, a free credit card reader that clips onto smartphones. Troop leaders believe paying with plastic will increase sales in a society where carrying cash is declining rapidly. As the Girl Scouts prepare to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year, keeping pace...
