If you’ve followed my blog, you’ll know that I’ve been a big advocate for healthy governance within Girl Scouting for quite a while now, and I’ve attempted to take action to shore up what I see as deficiencies including starting a website devoted to Girl Scout governance, writing a National Council Session proposal establishing a task group to study governance within the Movement, and authoring a white paper in 2019 about restoring the democratic process to Girl Scouting. Steps have been taken on the national scale by GSUSA to initiate a deep dive into governance which includes a partnership with Harvard, but it’s limited to a national scope. While I’m happy to see some action, I’m a little skeptical if there will be any long term effects because of where we stand with local governance. I question how we can model good governance nationally when we’re struggling to implement it successfully on the council level. But recently, I realized I’ve never really written in-depth about council governance models, so that brings me to this post where I will delve into it and also discuss what I foresee as a possible trend. Continue reading