Service Projects
Check this page often to find out how your troop can help our community.
If your troop would like to sign up or need more information on any of these projects, contact the
Service Project Coordinator.
*** Scouts completing 3 service projects receive a Community Service patch from the service unit. Contact
the Service Project Coordinator.
100 Hours of Community Service
To celebrate 100 years of Girl Scouts in America, the Monarch Service Unit is recognizing Girl Scouts who complete
100 hours of community service during 2012. Recognition will include an article in the area newspaper and a "100 Hours
for 100 Years" Community Service pin The hours may be used for Bronze, Silver, Gold Awards; school activities;
church activities; or volunteer activities.
Log your hours and submit to the Service Project Coordinator by December
31, 2012.
Landscaping Project for First United Methodist Church
Details are being worked out for a service project for the church where our monthly service unit meetings are held.
We are looking for a troop or group of scouts to design and oversee this project. More details to come.
The Pointe at Cedar Park Assisted Living
The Pointe at Cedar Park is an assisted living facility located at 450 Discovery Blvd in Cedar Park.
The Monarch Service Unit will have an ongoing service project with troops signing up for which month they would like to help.
Girls can make either table favors, door hangers or decorative pins for residents to wear. Projects should commemorate a
particular theme (i.e., Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Fourth of July) for the month. We take troop signups for each
month. Sign up at monthly service unit meetings or by emailing the Service Project Coordinator.
Troops can set up a time and day for delivery directly with the residents. Contact Kelly Kavanaugh, Recreations Program
Director, at 512-259-6525 or kkavanaugh@seniorlifestyle.com.
| Month |
OCT |
NOV |
DEC |
JAN |
FEB |
MAR |
APR |
MAY |
| Table Favors |
2039 |
2279 |
1697 |
2006 |
32 |
1527 |
1957 |
2293 |
| Door Hangers |
|
2052 |
1758 |
2039 |
2141 |
1326 |
351 |
2279 |
| Decorative Pins |
|
|
482 |
|
1729 |
1635 |
2017 |
|
Volunteer Opportunities at Bastrop State Park
Volunteer at Bastrop State Park in the areas of Houston toad pond work and erosion control. There are
four volunteer days for the winter to work on erosion control in those areas. These projects involve
spreading mulch along Houston toad pond edges and installing straw logs/wattles on hillsides. This
work is considered easy to moderate and may involve bending, carrying buckets of mulch and walking
long distances.
These projects are appropriate for all ages and groups!
Each workday runs from 9am to 3pm. The following are the dates for our winter volunteer events:
December 10
January 14
January 28
February 11
Reservations are required so they know how many people to expect. You can register with Katie Raney
at 512-718-0211 or by email at Katie.Raney@tpwd.state.tx.us(preferred). You must register by 5pm on the Friday before the event to be
allowed to volunteer.
Volunteer should wear close-toed shoes, long pants and long-sleeved shirts. You should also bring
work gloves. All other equipment, including hardhats, will be provided. Because they are dependent on
staff and material available, we cannot accept requests for specific projects. If you volunteer for a
workday, you are volunteering to do either Houston toad pond work or erosion control, or both.
Please let them know if you have any questions or wish to volunteer. When registering for this volunteer day,
we need the following information:
- Name
- Group size
If you do not volunteer for any of these dates, you will still remain in our volunteer database.
Katie Raney
Bastrop & Buescher State Parks
Park Interpreter/Volunteer Coordinator
512) 237-2241 ext. 225
Interested in restoring Bastrop State Park following the wildfires? Has your troop enjoyed spending time there
in the past? Here is a list of current volunteer opportunities. Please let us know what areas of work interest
your group. You will be added to a volunteer database and then contacted when those opportunities become available.
| Job Title |
Job Description |
Working Conditions |
| Brush Removal |
This position will be responsible for working within a work crew to cut,
remove and mulch debris. |
Difficult working conditions. Requires physical stamina and strength. |
| Erosion |
This position will work with a crew performing various tasks to mitigate erosion.
Tasks may include installing wattles and hay bales, and spreading mulch on sloped areas or pond edges. |
Easy to moderate working conditions. Requires bending and working on knees. |
| Trails |
This position will work with a crew performing various trail maintenance tasks including removing debris
(trees, cut limbs, etc.), constructing water bars, installing wattles and check steps, constructing bridges
and installing trail markers. |
Moderate to difficult working conditions. Requires physical stamina and strength. |
| Campground/Day use areas |
This position will work along or with a crew with the primary task of cleaning debris from the campgrounds.
Tasks may include rebuilding tent pads, installing grills and general campground cleanup. |
Easy to moderate working conditions. |
| Houston Toad |
This position will work with a crew performing tasks to improve habitat conditions around Houston toad breeding
sites. Work may including hauling mulch to pond edges, stacking brush or erecting shade structures around ponds. |
Easy to moderate working conditions. Requires bending, walking (possibly long distances), carrying buckets of
mulch, lifting branches, etc. |
Help for LISD Science Materials Center
A volunteer opportunity for Junior level Girl Scouts and up at the Leander ISD Science Materials Center (SMC). They supply all
the elementary schools with science modules that rotate every 9 weeks. There is A LOT of prep involved to get things ready
for our "refurb" period (the 2 weeks we have to refurbish every module that was on campus). We need mostly counting things
done and can package them to be picked up or can have a troop come after school. Brenda Howard is the contact at either
brenda.howard@leanderisd.org or 570-0277 if you would like to help.
Hours are 8am-4:30pm.
Pull Tabs for Ronald McDonald House
Each year, the proceeds from pull tab recycling supplement the monetary donations the Ronald McDonald
House Charities (RMHC) receive to support families of hospitalized children. This will be an ongoing service
project for the Monarch Service Unit. Create a troop collection jar
and start collecting pull tabs. An activity and tour will be coordinated in the spring. Get more information
on the pull tab program.
Recycling Project
If you have old cell phones, ink jet cartridges, iPods, digital cameras, or toner cartridges from copier machines,
Troop 2063 is recycling them. You can bring them to any of our service unit meetings.
HEB Plastic Bags
Troop 180 is collecting HEB plastic bags. Bring bags to any of our service unit meetings.
T-Shirt Collection
Troop 2293 is making reusable, washable tote bags out of old t-shirts. Bring t-shirts to monthly service unit meetings.
Recycle Your Holiday Cards
Troop #351 is collecting greeting cards for St. Jude's Childrens Ranch as on ongoing troop project.
Batches of cards will be mailed to St. Jude quarterly.
This program benefits the children at St. Jude’s Ranch to learn entrepreneurship skills. The children
participate in making the new cards by removing the front and attaching a new back. The result is a
beautiful new card made by the children and volunteers. The benefits are two-fold: customers receive
"green" holiday cards for use and learn the benefits and importance of "going green".
http://www.stjudesranch.org/shop/recycled-card-program/
