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Earning your RMHC Southern Arizona Badge

in partnership with the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona

Girl Scouts bring their dreams to life and work together to build a better world. Girl Scouts learn how to use their personal power to help others, to solve problems in their community and make a lasting change in the world. One of the ways Girls Scouts helps girls learn about the issues facing Southern Arizona is by partnering with local nonprofits and offering localized badges such as this one from Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Arizona.

Daisies
Daisy

  • Discover

    1. Learn about RMHC-SA: The Problem and Our Purpose
    2. Learn about the history of Ronald McDonald Houses and RMHC-SA: Our History
    • Read RMHC-SA “The Problem and Our Purpose.” Talk about it as a troop or with your family. How would you feel if you had to leave home to get medical treatment? When you are sick, what is the one thing that makes you feel better?

    Connect

    1. Connect with RMHC-SA. Ask a volunteer or staff member to come talk to or video chat with your troop to talk about what we do. Juliettes can reach out to RMHC-SA to video chat with a staff member or volunteer.

    Take Action

    1. Decide how you can best take action to help RMHC-SA. Pick one way to take action from the ideas listed below or contact RMHC-SA to discuss your own idea.
    • Collecting pop tabs is one of the most popular projects for young volunteers. Make a goal of how many pop tabs you would like to collect. Put a pop tab label on a container or make a pop tab collection house. Educate your friends and family about how pop tabs help RMHC-SA.
    • Donate Girl Scout Cookies to the families at RMHC-SA as your “gift of caring” during cookie season.
    • Donate an item from our RMHC-SA Wish List. Why did you choose that Wish List item?
    • Decorate lunch bags for our Snack Bag program and fill them with prepackaged snacks. How can you make your bags fun?
Brownies

Discover

  1. Learn about RMHC-SA: The Problem and Our Purpose
  2. Learn about the history of Ronald McDonald Houses and RMHC-SA: Our History
  • Read RMHC-SA  “The Problem and Our Purpose.” Talk about it as a troop or with your family. How would you feel if you had to leave home to get medical treatment? When you are sick what is the one thing that makes you feel better?
  • Leaders/caregivers read the first Ronald McDonald House and RMHC-SA history (pdf / 210kb) to the Brownies. What is one thing each Girl Scout learned? How
    did Fred and Fran Hill and Louise Thomas turn their child’s illness into a huge change for their local community? How can you make a small
    change in your community?

Connect

  1. Learn how RMHC-SA connects with the community. How do we let families of sick children know that we are here if they need us? Come up with one idea of how you can share information about the House.
  2. Connect with RMHC-SA Volunteer Coordinator Mikay Wright at mwright@rmhctucson.org. to arrange for a volunteer or staff member to come talk to or video chat with your troop to talk about what we do.
  • How does RMHC-SA share our mission in the community? Talk about ideas as a troop or with your family. (We do events, promote on social media and in the community, and work with the hospitals to share information.) Color a Hang a Heart and Share a Smile! Heart (pdf / 617kb) and hang it in your house or community.
  • Share three neat facts about RMHC-SA with your family.
  • Color or write a note to a child staying at the House on the Love and Well Wishes sheet (pdf / 312kb) and have your leader or caregiver mail them to RMHC-SA.

Take Action

  1. Review the RMHC-SA volunteer opportunities, ways to Help the House, and Wish Lists. Pick a book about volunteering, and read one chapter. Here is a suggestion: A Smart Girl’s Guide: Making a Difference: Using Your Talents and Passions to Change the World This link opens in new window , or visit your local library and ask your librarian for help selecting a book about volunteering.
  2. Decide how you can best take action to help RMHC-SA. Pick two ways from the ideas listed below or contact RMHC-SA to discuss your own idea.
  3. Share with your friends and family how you helped RMHC-SA.
  • Collecting pop tabs is one of the most popular projects for young volunteers. Make a goal of how many pop tabs you would like to collect. Put a pop tab label on a container or make a pop tab collection house. Educate your friends and family about how pop tabs help RMHC-SA.
  • Donate Girl Scout Cookies to the families at RMHC-SA as your ‘gift of caring’.
  • Donate an item from our RMHC-SA Wish List. Why did you choose that Wish List item?
  • Decorate lunch bags for our Snack Bag program and fill them with prepackaged snacks. How can you make your bags fun?
Juniors & Cadettes
Junior & Cadette

Discover

  1. Learn about RMHC-SA: The Problem and Our Purpose
  2. Learn about the history of Ronald McDonald Houses and RMHC-SA: Our History
  3. Learn about Philanthropy

Connect

  1. Learn how RMHC-SA connects with the community to raise awareness of our organization and reach families that could use our help.
  2. Connect with RMHC-SA. Ask a volunteer or staff member to come talk or video chat with you or your troop to talk about what we do and how we
    raise money to support the families that stay here.
  3. Share what you’ve learned about the Ronald McDonald House.
  • Look online at RMHC-SA website. How does the RMHC-SA work to connect to the community and
    share our mission?
  • Find something you like on RMHC-SA website/social media and share it either virtually or verbally with a family member or friends.
  • Color or write a note to a family staying at RMHC-SA on the Love and Well Wishes sheet(pdf / 312kb) and mail them to RMHC-SA.
  • Read about the events RMHC-SA hosts that raise money so families can stay at the Ronald McDonald House at no cost.

Take Action

  1. Review the RMHC-SA volunteer opportunities, ways to Help the House, and Wish Lists.
  2. Decide how you can best take action to help RMHC-SA. Pick two ways from the ideas listed below or contact RMHC-SA to discuss your own idea.
  3. Share with your friends and family how you helped RMHC-SA.
  • Share with your network and Girl Scout Sisters how you helped RMHC-SA. Volunteer or participate in a RMHC-SA event. Why did you choose that event? What did
    you learn?
  • Create diaper cakes (pdf / 755kb) or hospitality kits*
  • Design a craft kit (pdf/ 2MB) and make at least 10 kits*
  • Donate Girl Scout Cookies and/or money raised as a troop. Or Juliettes can individually buy items from the Wish List.
  • Start a pop tab collection somewhere in your community. Let people know why you’re collecting them, and make plans to deliver the pop tabs to the Ronald McDonald House.

*If your troop needs help funding these projects, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Arizona can help. Contact Mikay Wright at mwright@rmhctucson.org or (520) 326-0060 ext 7112.

Seniors & Ambassadors

Discover

  1. Learn about RMHC-SA: The Problem and Our Purpose
  2. Learn about the history of Ronald McDonald Houses and RMHC-SA: Our History
  3. Learn about what it means to be a nonprofit organization: Academic Kids This link opens in new window

Connect

  1. Learn about Dr. Audrey Evans’s involvement with the Ronald McDonald House:
  2. Learn about how RMHC-SA raises money through events
  3. Connect with RMHC-SA. Ask a volunteer or staff member to come talk or video chat with you/your troop about what we do.

Choose 2 of the 3

  • Write a paragraph about what you learned about Dr. Audrey Evans and something you find inspiring about her. Then discuss as a troop or with your family. Mail what you wrote to the staff at RMHC-SA.
  • How can you get involved with the Ronald McDonald House and help with events? Arrange a team to volunteer together or volunteer as a troop for the Walk for Kids.
  • Share with your family and friends what you have learned about the history of RMHC/RMHC-SA and how they can help RMHC-SA.

Take Action

  1. Review the RMHC-SA volunteer opportunities, ways to Help the House, and Wish Lists.
  2. Decide how you can best take action to help RMHC-SA. Pick two ways from the ideas listed below or contact RMHC-SA to discuss your own idea.
  3. Share how you helped RMHC-SA.
  • Create diaper cakes (pdf / 755kb) or hospitality kits*
  • Design a craft kit (pdf / 2MB) and make at least 10 kits*
  • Participate in a RMHC-SA event or our Chef for A Day program.* Why did you choose that event? What did you learn?

*If your troop needs help funding these projects, Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern Arizona can help. Contact Mikay Wright at mwright@rmhctucson.org or (520) 326-0060 ext 7112.