Death Spiral: Governance Edition
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Last June, I wrote a post called Death Spiral which discussed signs pointing to a council that could potentially fail – or one that’s already on its way. The signs included the disintegration of the service unit structure leading to isolation of troops and volunteers.
There is another sign of a failing council, and it’s one that comes from the governance side of things. It’s the failing of the democratic process. This unfortunately probably speaks for a great many councils these days, and it isn’t a good sign for the long term health of the Girl Scout Movement. Continue reading
I finally got around to finishing the Junior Think Like A … Journey Trilogy series by completing the Junior Think Like an Engineer Journey. Like the others, I took the set of 6 sessions from Volunteer Toolkit and slimmed it down by reformatting and removing any duplicate material. You can also find the original set from the