Comments on: Mentors Needed to “Green” Girl Scouts http://www.welovedc.com/2009/11/24/mentors-needed-to-green-girl-scouts/ Your Life Beyond The Capitol Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: uberVU - social comments http://www.welovedc.com/2009/11/24/mentors-needed-to-green-girl-scouts/comment-page-1/#comment-14420 uberVU - social comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:26:18 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=22879#comment-14420 <strong>Social comments and analytics for this post...</strong> This post was mentioned on Twitter by welovedc: Looking for a volunteering opportunity? The girl scouts need environmentally savvy mentors. http://bit.ly/5sVwZr... Social comments and analytics for this post…

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]]> By: brittany http://www.welovedc.com/2009/11/24/mentors-needed-to-green-girl-scouts/comment-page-1/#comment-14405 brittany Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:25:32 +0000 http://www.welovedc.com/?p=22879#comment-14405 I think this seems like a great project. I can only add that I had a terrible personal experience attempting to volunteer with the Girl Scouts of the Nation's Capital - the very Girl Scout Council of which I had been a brownie & girl scout in my girlhood (dorky, perhaps, but true!) After getting an email looking for women to participate in various projects, I said "sure!" - After that, I was never assigned to a project, and nobody responded to repeated emails and calls saying "hey, I'M the one offering to help YOU here..." Finally, I gave up and asked to just be taken off the list - a request they never complied with and instead just increased the rate of spam until I blocked them. Volunteer management is not an easy thing, I understand, but it seemed disrespectful. How hard should I really have to work in order to do some fun volunteer work with the girl scouts? I think this seems like a great project. I can only add that I had a terrible personal experience attempting to volunteer with the Girl Scouts of the Nation’s Capital – the very Girl Scout Council of which I had been a brownie & girl scout in my girlhood (dorky, perhaps, but true!)

After getting an email looking for women to participate in various projects, I said “sure!” – After that, I was never assigned to a project, and nobody responded to repeated emails and calls saying “hey, I’M the one offering to help YOU here…” Finally, I gave up and asked to just be taken off the list – a request they never complied with and instead just increased the rate of spam until I blocked them.

Volunteer management is not an easy thing, I understand, but it seemed disrespectful. How hard should I really have to work in order to do some fun volunteer work with the girl scouts?

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