Girl Scouts was founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low who believed girls should be given the opportunity to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually through community service involvement and hands-on learning. We reach across class, culture, and ethnic boundaries to ensure all girls, including those with mental and physical disabilities, have a place to grow and develop their life and leadership skills. Reaching out to underserved and economically challenged populations. GSSGC provides a powerful time-tested all-girl program specifically designed for girls and young women to become independent, resilient, and courageous agents for community change.

Currently, we are campaigning specifically to support work going towards creating resources to provide experience for girls living with disabilities and from low-income households. There is a critical need to ensure our training, programs, and processes meet girls where they are and grow alongside them. We have listened to our members who have expressed the need for more flexible programming for both current girl members and girls who have aged out. Extended programming is needed to allow girls to learn and grow at a pace comfortable to them. Girls have told us how Girl Scouts help them daily, and we want to continue cultivating these positive experiences in an intentional and meaningful way.

To bring program experience to life we collaborate with school districts, businesses, and post-secondary education institutions in the Coachella Valley to address current community needs. Girl Scouts has developed diverse partnerships in recent years including, The City of Palm Springs, Annenberg Foundation and Irene W. and Guy L. Anderson Children's Foundation. Multiple Coachella Valley school districts have participated in Girl Scout program opportunities including Desert Hot Springs, Palm Springs Unified School District, Desert Sands Unified School District, and Coachella Valley Unified School District.
The Girl Scout Leadership Experience advances girls and women into leadership roles by applying our extensive mentorship approach. Girl Scouts helps girls develop their individual potential by honing their leadership skills through the lens of experiential learning and playful collaboration, inspiring girls to discover, connect, and take action. All programming centers around our traditional Girl Scout Promise and Law with the unique element of being girl-led.

Outdoors and STEM: Girls are currently learning about the environment and current earth concerns through experiential projects they can perform at home, to understand what is happening to our planet, preparing them for when state and local restrictions lift. Our outdoor programming features a variety of fun and challenging activities that empower girls as they develop values, skills, and behaviors essential to effective leadership in the outdoors. Eight in ten girls say Girl Scouting allows them to do outdoor activities they have never done before and would not have done otherwise-suggesting Girl Scouts opens the door to novel outdoor experiences.

Career exploration: Our STEM career exploration program format continues to help girls connect math and science proficiency to their career interests, integrating academics with career-based learning and workplace experiences. This includes providing activities that align with Riverside County schools' Career Technical Education. The goal is to cultivate girl interest in STEM and nontraditional female career fields by the time they enter high school. This way girls can prepare to take career-specific pathways offered by the schools in areas such as engineering and cybersecurity.

The Girl Scout Entrepreneurial Program: Popularly known as the Girl Scout Cookie Sale, it is the largest girl-led business in the world and fuels economic development by training girls to budget, manage money, set goals and exercise people skills. In turn, their efforts result in troop earnings and individual rewards that stimulate the local economy (all proceeds stay locally) like graduation packages, SAT prep and testing fees, technology, local adventures, travel and other items many families cannot afford for their girls.