Calling All Girl Bosses 2024-2025
Silver Award Proposal
SOLO PROJECT PROPOSAL FORM
This proposal form should be completed by girls who are working independently on their Silver Award projects (not as part of a team). You will still need to recruit people to support you in completing your project.
Silver Award proposals should be uploaded to Rallyhood or emailed to girlbosses@gsep.org between November 16 and December 7, 2024.
Need help? Reach out to a CAGB volunteer or Highest Awards coach or email girlbosses@gsep.org.
Your Information
Girl Name:
Girl Address:
Girl's Email Address:
If you do not have a personal email address, type NA.
Girl's Phone Number:
If you do not have a personal phone number, type NA.
What grade are you in?
Your School Name:
Have you earned the Bronze Award (yes or no)?
Silver Award Take Action Project
Project Title :
What is your project? Please include a 3-4 sentence description of your project, including the desired result and how it addresses the root cause of your issue.
What is your proposed Start Date? (Most CAGB girls will begin work in January 2025)
What is your proposed Completion Date? (To earn your Silver Award through CAGB, you must complete your project by April 1, 2025)
What I ssue will your project address? Why does it matter? Please include a 3-5 sentence description. ( See the Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award, Step 4.)
Who is your Target Audience? Who will your project help? (Please include a 1-2 sentence description AND include the name of the agency/group that will benefit from the project, if applicable). Note: Before submitting your proposal, you must receive approval from the organization that is benefiting from your project. For example, if you are making no-sew blankets for a hospital as part of your project, you must check with the hospital to ensure that they will accept them before submitting your proposal.
What is a Root Cause of the issue? Please include a 3-4 sentence description. A Silver Award Take Action Project must address a root cause. ( See the Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award, Steps 3 and 4.)
Your Team
You need to identify at least two people who will help you as part of your project team. These are NOT your Community Partners or the Calling All Girl Bosses volunteers. They are people you’ll be leading to achieve your goal! They can be fellow Calling All Girl Bosses participants, but they don’t need to be. Examples include girls in your troop, classmates, a neighbor, a teacher. They should be people BEYOND your family members. Be sure to include them on your To-Do List.
Name of Team Member 1:
How do you know Team Member 1?
Name of Team Member 2:
How do you know Team Member 2?:
Name of Team Member 3 (optional):
How do you know Team Member 3?:
Name of Team Member 4 (optional):
How do you know Team Member 4?:
Community Partners
Enter the names of community members or organizations that you contacted or partnered with to research your issue and find the root cause (See Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award, Step 3.):
Goals
What is your measurable goal? How will you know that you have reached it? Please include a 3-4 sentence description.
Think in terms of how big? how many? how much? Or, if you are educating others, what do you hope they will learn? If you are presenting a program, how many sessions will there be? How long are the sessions planned? How many people do you hope to reach? Refer to your SMART GOAL worksheet.
Sustainability
"Sustainable" means that the benefits of your project will continue after you are no longer working on it. For example, do you have an agreement for a younger GS troop to take over the planting, weeding and watering in the future for a pollinator garden you've created? Or have you started a club at school, and gotten an agreement from a teacher or younger student to continue it after you are no longer in the school?
How will your plan make your project sustainable? You may choose more than one method.
___ I will create a permanent solution that can be used after my project is complete.
___ I will educate and inspire others in the community or within Girl Scouts to be part of the
change.
___ I will advocate to change a rule, regulation or a law and encourage others to join.
Specifically, what will you do to make your project sustainable? Please include a 2-4 sentence description. ( See the Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award, Step 5. )
Leadership
How will your unique talents and leadership skills be used in this project? Please include a 2-4 sentence description.
Budget & Supply List
What supplies will you need to complete the project? Supplies include everything you will need to reach your goal. Supplies can be anything from paper and ink to make information flyers to sewing needles, sewing thread, and fabric for a craft you are making, or shovels, rakes, topsoil, and plants for a garden project.
Silver Award projects sometimes require money or nonmonetary donations of goods. If your project requires this, then please estimate supplies/donations needed and potential costs. A budget worksheet with actual supplies and costs will be required with the Final Report. (See the Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award, Step 5 and your BUDGET PLANNER worksheet.)
What is the total COST of the supply items you will need to buy? That is, those supplies that you don't already own or that won't be donated or borrowed. This may be $0.00 if you don't need to BUY anything.
How do you plan to meet these costs?
Time Commitment
Type or sign your name here to indicate you are aware that you should spend approximately 50 hours working on you Silver Award project and will maintain a time log. (See the Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award, Step 6 and the time log .)
Your Name _________________________________________________________
National and/or Global Link
Try It: Describe how you will try to make a National and/or Global link. (See the Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award, Step 5.) [Optional]
Timeline/Project Plan
Make a plan and develop a project To-Do List from start to finish. What steps do you need to take to reach your goal? Be sure to list each task involved, in chronological order. Include the full name of anyone who helps you with a task, but only count the hours that YOU are actively doing the task. Refer to your TIMELINE PLANNER worksheet.
REMEMBER: Your plan is just that - a plan. If it changes over time, that's OK!
Proposal Agreement
I have read and understand all the requirements and guidelines specific to the Girl
Scout Silver Award as outlined in the Cadette Workbook for Earning Your Silver Award and council specific requirements. I am aware of all deadlines for the Girl Scout Silver Award.
Should any major plans change, I will email girlbosses@gsep.org and/or notify my Highest Awards coach. I agree that I will not continue work on my project before receiving approval of my proposal.
By typing my full name below, I affirm that all the information above is accurate and that I agree to all the requirements for the Silver Award Project!
Your Name: ______________________________________________________________
Submission Date: ________________________________________________________
You did it!
Please check your work to make sure you responded to all of the questions above .
When you’re ready to submit your proposal , save the file with this name: YourName_proposal_1. Then upload the file to Rallyhood , the CAGB Google Folder, or email it to girlbosses@gsep.org.
Congratulations on getting one step closer to your Silver Award!