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  Rainbow Ribbon Community Service Learning Award

 

 
    The Rainbow Ribbon is awarded to troops that create and execute an original multi-troop program that celebrates diversity.  The troop receives the ribbon for its flag, and the girls each receive a certificate.

Some popular topics are cultural identity, cultural awareness, stereotyping, gender bias, bullying, age discrimination and ethnic celebration, but your troop is free to come up with its own.  The more invested a girl is in a project the more powerful her experience will be, so make it girl-driven, girl-planned and girl-executed!  Girls and adults work together throughout.

To earn the Rainbow Ribbon a troop creates and carries out a project that:
is presented to a number of different troops

  • provides experiential learning in diversity
  • includes an explanation of the subject (e.g.: Stereotyping: to explore the stereotypes in our culture, to understand how they arose, to help the girls identify them and to provide a new, culturally acceptable vocabulary for the girls.)
  • includes an Action Plan written by girls
  • includes journaling, videotaping or narrative writing as a form of evaluation
  • includes a press release submitted to the council and a local newspaper

After completing the project, you will need to submit copies of the Action Plan, the subject explanation, the press release and girl and leader evaluations to the Community Ties Program Manager to receive a Rainbow Ribbon to hang on your troop flag.  Girls will receive certificates if you email their names (please check spelling) with the items listed above.

If you are stuck for an idea please email Wendy Garf-Lipp or call 508 923 0800 x31.

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