2016 Annual Report From the Board Chair & CEO

This year marked 100 years of the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout can earn. And what a golden year it was! During the Gold Award centennial we saw the pride filled faces of alumnae who earned the Gold Award, First Class and Golden Eaglette, as well as the faces of the remarkable Girl Scouts who completed the rigorous requirements to earn the prestigious designation this year. These Girl Scouts are the best reminder of why Girl Scouting is relevant. Together we can ensure that all girls have the opportunity to reach their fullest potential and go for the gold! For a century Girl Scouts have ignited positive change in their communities. Girls who pursue the Gold Award aspire to transform a vision for change into an actionable plan with measurable, sustainable and far-reaching results. With projects ranging from healthy living to cultural awareness, environmental stewardship to global issues, Girl Scouts have changed the world. In this report you’ll find the inspiring story of Maiya McCrary, a Girl Scout Gold Award recipient, who traveled to Washington D.C. as part of the Centennial Celebrations to showcase her project. Girl Scouts of Southwest is developing the next generation of leaders; building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place, in partnership with nearly 6,000 adult volunteers. Through Girl Scouting’s highest awards, the Gold, Silver and Bronze awards, girls learn by doing, working in small groups and on their own on projects where the girls direct the outcome. They discover, connect and take action—making a difference in their families, schools and neighborhoods through leadership development and community service. We are proud of the impact we have on girls and our results demonstrate the difference we make in the lives of the girls in our communities, as you will see in this annual report. We thank you for your tremendous support, which makes a remarkable difference in the lives of the girls we serve. Without each of you, we could not do what we do. We are most grateful for committed volunteers, donors and community members who support Girl Scouts. You’ve helped us champion leaders who make significant contributions to our world.

Jeannie Frazier Major General Angela Salinas, USMC (Ret) Chair, Board of Directors Chief Executive Officer 2015-2016 2016 Financials Board of Public Support Directors Individual Contributions...... 323,701 Corporate & Foundation Contributions...... 700,887 Jeannie Frazier Special Events, net...... 344,117 Chair United Way...... 669,249 Kelly Faglie Grants...... 173,304 1st Vice Chair Total Public Support...... 2,211,258 Mary Henrich Revenues 2nd Vice Chair Product Sales, net...... 3,388,321 Jelynn LeBlanc Burley Program Fees...... 457,388 Secretary Retail Sales, net...... 208,498 Investment Income...... 178,543 Deena Clausen In-kind Contributions...... 102,255 Treasurer Other...... 7,890

Members-At-Large Total Revenues...... 4,342,895 Terri Ketterer Total Public Support & Revenues...... 6,554,153 Mary Rose Brown Cece Cheever Expenses Angelica Docog Program Services...... 5,184,705 Dr. Gretcha Flinn Supporting Services...... 793,545 Fundraising...... 353,999 Leah D. Flores Ramon Flores Total Expenses...... 6,332,249 Monica Moore Gonzalez Change in net assets...... 221,904 Roger A. Graham Net assets at beginning of year...... 12,388,099 Dr. Arcelia Johnson-Fannin Net assets at end of year...... 12,610,003 Kathleen Krueger Jessica Mobley Jennifer Moriarty Maritza Rodriguez 2016 Revenues 2016 Expenses Sandy Schlortt Investment Fund Annie Uribe Turner Retail Sales Income Development 3% 6% Teri Wenglein 3% Other Management Program 1% & General Ex-Officio Fees 12% Girl Board Members 7% Alyssa Peña, Girl Board Chair Isabelle Cannon Nadia Gonzales 6% Katie Omeis Public Product Program Support Sales, 11% Services Rebekah Ramirez 34% net 52% Mia Reyna 82% Chloe Makalia Riddley Catalina Maya Rocha Grace Snarr 33 Girl Story

Maiya McCrary In 2016 Maiya McCrary was chosen as one of eight Girl Scouts nationwide to present her Gold Award Project at the Girl Scouts’ Gold Award Centennial Celebration on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. Maiya’s project, “Gear Up: STEAM into Your Future,” started with a dream of increasing the number of women in STEM-related careers. Through robotics, code writing and model kit construction workshops McCrary worked with students at the Eastside Boys and Girls Club. Her time and effort paid off as the Boys and Girls Club Eastside STEM Lab robotics team, composed of all girls, won first place in their first competition. “I want girls to know that anything related to science, that it’s not just for boys,” McCrary said. “It was so great to encourage these kids to keep trying even though sometimes things get tough. I told them you have to keep trying until you get it right and eventually they did.” McCrary is a lifelong Girl Scout and currently attends University of the Incarnate Word where she is majoring in computer and software engineering, with a minor in mathematics.

4 4 Invest in Girls. Change the World. ToGetHerThere is the largest fundraising campaign for girls in history with a national goal of $1 billion by 2020. Girl Scouts has the reach and experience to help girls navigate an increasingly complex society and we believe every girl deserves the confidence to dream big and build a better world. Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas raises more than $2 million each year to support direct services to more than 18,500 girls in the 21 counties served Maiya McCrary by the council. When girls succeed, so does society.

Thank you donors for making it possible. Because of you, in 2016 our outcomes-based activities remained affordable to girls and their families. More donations means more girls

benefiting from everything that Girl Scouts has to offer.

See pages 10 - 11 for a list of donors

5 55 Celebrating 100 Years of Positive Change their general success in life significantly higher and report higher success in reaching their goals within many areas. • 91% Girl Scout Alumnae believe that Girl Scouts played an important role in their childhood • 92% Girl Scout Alumnae believe that some experiences they had in Girl Scouts could not have been done anywhere else When Girl Scouts earn Before taking action on her • 85% Girl Scout Alumnae the Gold Award, they project, a Girl Scout spends believe that Girl Scouts helped shape their become part of an elite significant time planning, researching and creating a plan character group of leaders. for approval to the Gold Award • 89% Girl Scout Alumnae committee. Once her plan is One million girls, approximately believe that Girl Scouts approved Girl Scouts recruit 2% of alumnae, have earned the has had a strong impact on volunteers to help make their Gold Award or its equivalent. who they are today plans a reality. Then the work • 73% Girl Scout Alumnae Girl Scouts who “Go Gold” are begins. Gold Award projects feel that Girl Scouts helped making meaningful, lasting take at least 80 hours of them avoid risky behaviors changes in their community. service to complete. The Girl Scout Gold Award in adolescence The Gold Award is so much showcases the power of each These young women are more than the pinnacle of recipient’s dedication to not courageous leaders and the Girl Scout experience. only empowering and bettering visionary change makers. Recipients tend to do well in herself but also to making the They are our future – and it life, well beyond their years world a better place for others. looks bright. in Girl Scouting! They rate

6 Earned by as many as 7,000 attitudes about themselves teen Girl Scouts each year, and the lives they lead. the Gold Award recognizes More than 90 percent of Girl girls who demonstrate Scouts not only attribute extraordinary leadership their success in life to through their remarkable Girl Scouts, but they also Take Action projects that have say they could not have sustainable impact in their had access to the same communities and beyond. experiences anywhere else. Over the course of the last 2016 Girl Scouting century, millions of Girl has influenced Scout alumnae have made Gold Award Gold Award recipients, positive change in their Recipients shaping their lives communities and the world with their creative, impactful and empowering Aubrianna Alvarez and sustainable Take Action them with experiences projects. Brittany Anderson and opportunities Rebecca Baumgarten for success in Tamara Bayegan today’s world. Gold Award Facts & Figures Noelle Coats According to research Audra Collins conducted by the Girl • Gold Award recipients Addison Farrimond-Nelson Scout Research Institute, spend between one Jenny Ferraro Girl Scout alumnae also and two years on their Bianca Garcia display a better sense of projects. Dayna Greene self, leadership and have a • The average age of Gold Genesis Hatten deeper life satisfaction. Gold Award recipients is 17. Award recipients represent Cameryn Manley • In nearly 100 years, the most successful, civically Katherine Mendoza engaged and happiest Girl 1 million girls have earned Scout Alumnae! Girl Scouting the Gold Award or its Nneka Okoro has influenced Gold Award equivalent. Danielle Olmos Recipients, shaping their • Gold Award recipients who Unnati Penta lives and empowering join the armed services Rachel Poe them with experiences and enter at one rank higher Rebekah Poe opportunities for success in than other recruits. Christina Salazar their future endeavors. • University research When compared to non-Girl indicates that adding Paris Shemwell Scout alumnae, Gold Award the Gold Award to a Julia Singer recipients soar when it college application is a Anna Surovic comes to seeing themselves critical element in the Kimberly Ternan as a leader, providing admissions-decision Paige White service to others through process. volunteerism and positive Ashley Wright 77 The Girl Scout Leadership Experience Girl Scouts take the lead in bettering their communities and the world. The Girl Scout Leadership Experience is a collection of activities and experiences where girls earn badges, sell cookies, go on exciting trips, explore the outdoors and participate in or lead Take Action projects that make a difference.

Discover (self) Girls find out who 93% resolved they are, what 95% developed they care about problems a strong resourcefully 94% sense of self and what their talents are. educated & inspired 89% others gained practical life skills Take Action (service) Do something Outcomes of the to make the 91% world a better developed Girl Scout Leadership place. critical thinking Experience 85% 84% sought resolved challenges conflict in the world Connect (with others) 95% 94% Collaborate with promoted developed other people, locally cooperation positive and globally, to &team values make a difference building in the world.

8 Membership 2016 24,154 total members in 2016 (as of September 30, 2016) Membership 5,526 & Diversity

18,628

Girls Adults 39%

57% 47% 74% 32%

6% 3% 20% 2% .8% .3% .2% 22% Race 13% 55% Ethnicity 4.5% 3% 2% 2% .4% .3%

Race 13%

Ethnicity Diversity Legend Race Ethnicity

American Indian/ Non Black Hawaiian Hispanic Alaskan Native Asian Hispanic

Not Not Reported White Multiple Other Reported

It is optional for members to report demographic information to Girl Scouts of Southwest Texas. Race and ethnicity not reported result from girls served in partnership with school districts or other youth-serving agencies.

9 The Ewing Halsell Foundation Nissan North America, Inc. Aracely Garcia-Granados 2016 Frost NuStar Energy General Dynamics Mission Mary & Bill Henrich Oak Hills Rotary Club Systems Major J.B. Franklin Pape-Dawson Engineers, Inc. Marcia & Otto Koehler The Place/Commercial Janet D. Holliday Donors Foundation Real Estate Kahlig Auto Group Our thanks to the many Speaker & Mrs. Joe Straus Dana & Gene Powell Kendra Scott donors who supported the United Way of Kerr County Susan Reeves Kohl’s Community Relations Girl Scout mission with their University of Texas Health The RK Group Ladies Auxiliary VFW 8541 generosity during 2016. Science Center at Robert A. & Kathey K. The Beldon Group of Companies Suzanne A. Wade Anderson Foundation Marmon Mok Architecture $25,000+ San Antonio Convention Moriarty Consulting Group City of San Antonio $1,000+ & Visitors Bureau Gregory E. Muenster CPS Energy Alma Abalos San Antonio Federal Maj. Gen. Angie Salinas USMC (Ret) Greehey Family Foundation Andrade-Van De Putte and Credit Union San Antonio Housing Authority Harvey E. Najim Family Associates, LLC Shetler Wade Jewelers San Antonio Lighthouse for Foundation Bob & Karen Baen Silver Eagle Distributors the Blind H-E-B The Bank of San Antonio Charitable Fund San Antonio Sports John L. Santikos Charitable Barbara Banker Southwest Business Corp. Sandra Schlortt Foundation Fund of the Baxter Design Group, Inc. Spurs Sports & Entertainment Sheryl Sculley San Antonio Area BBVA Compass Bank Stumberg Trust SeaWorld San Antonio Foundation Bracewell LLP Texas A&M University - Shelley Snyder Kate Marmion Charitable Broadway Bank San Antonio St. Louis Service Women’s Foundation Jelynne LeBlanc Burley Texas Capital Bank Post 404 Klesse Foundation Carol Tyrell Kyle Foundation Texas Cavaliers Charitable Elizabeth R. Swize Kronkosky Charitable Cece D. Cheever Foundation Texas Law Enforcement Records Foundation Joan M. Cheever United Way of Comal County Association Shining Star ENERGY Laura & Alan Chesler United Way of Del Rio - Walmart Foundation Toyota Financial Services Circle Bar Foundation Val Verde County United Way of San Antonio Gloria & Fully Clingman United Way of Guadalupe In-Kind Donors & Bexar County Conceptual Mindworks, Inc. County Akin, Doherty, Klein & Fuege, P.C. USAA Foundation Alan W. Dreeben United Way of Maverick County Americus Diamond Foundation Enterprise Holdings Foundation UTSA Institute of Texan Mary Rose Brown Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Ernst & Young LLP Cultures Davis Middle School Estate of Mary Mason Margaret Walker The DeBerry Group $10,000+ Grand Hyatt San Antonio Mr. & Mrs. Graham Weston Edgewood Independent Capital Group Companies Col. James M. Guerin Edward & Linda Whitacre School District Charitable Foundation Health Facility Solutions Golfsmith Nancy & Charlie Cheever Company The Wood Agency Goods Collective Faye L. and William L. Cowden Rose M. Hendry Zachry Construction Illusions Charitable Foundation High Touch Technologies Corporation Innovative Multimedia Group IBC Bank Tim & Karen Hixon Zachry Group Main Event Entertainment Mays Family Foundation Holliday Interests Inc Markey’s McCombs Foundation Hotel Valencia $500+ SeaWorld San Antonio San Antonio Rampage Insperity AT&T Entertainment and Shetler Wade Jewelers South Texas Money Joeris General Contractors, Ltd. Internet Services University of the Incarnate Word Management, Ltd. John Newman Family Donna Brady Valero Energy Foundation Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Charitable Fund of the CarMax Foundation WARD North American Texas, Inc. San Antonio Area Foundation Brenda M. Chapa Jan King Shirley Craig $5,000+ Leidos Doug Cross Accenture LLP Linebarger Goggan Blair & Culligan Southwest, Inc Every effort has been made to Alice Kleberg Reynolds Sampson, LLP John Dearing ensure the accuracy of this list. Foundation Lance Lubel Dominion Design & List includes donations received AT&T MassMutual Financial Group Integration LLC The CE Group Elaine Mendoza-Gay Jan M. Elliott as of September 30, 2016. C.H. Guenther & Son, Inc. Modern Woodmen of America Linda G. Foster If we have made an error, Dixie Starnes Wenger Morgan Stanley please notify the development Foundation Nancy May department. Thank you.

10 Without you, our circle is not complete. Named for our founder, Juliette’s Circle is an extraordinary group of individuals who are passionate about our mission. Each gift is an opportunity to change the world one girl at a time. By making an investment in girls, members of Juliette’s Circle are helping them lead healthy lives and achieve their fullest potential. We know that when girls succeed, so does society. Special thanks to our founding members of Juliette’s Circle, who show their heartfelt support through their individual gifts.

Founding Members

William T. (Bill) Avila Beverly Watts Davis Teri M. Grubb Cathy Ritter Carri Baker Luis de la Garza Beth Hair Maj. Gen. Angie Salinas, USMC (Ret) Karen Baen Yolanda Delgado Mary Henrich Sandra Schlortt Sarah Baray Patricia Diaz Dennis Jody Shaw Hernandez Sharon Jones Schweitzer Leah R. Bennett Angelica M. Docog Mary Hime Marsha McCombs Shields Nelwyn Simes Belt Lisa Drozdick Susan Hough Blythe Simonson Yonnie Blanchette Jan McCaleb Elliott Janet Irwine Cecilia M. Smith Mary Rose Brown Kelly Faglie Dr. Arcelia M. Johnson-Fannin Patricia P. Stout Jelynne LeBlanc Burley Sandy Finleon Katie McKinney Jones Jocelyn L. Straus Laura Burt Gretcha Flinn Hon. Yvonne Katz, Ed.D. Rita Sutton Ella Carrasco Leah D. Flores Estella Reyna Kierce Marlene M. Teal Cece Cheever Ramon Flores Wendy Kowalik Diane M. Theiss Nancy & Charlie Cheever Lisa D. Fox Rosemary Kowalski Cheryl Thorpe Jean Cheever Jeannie Frazier Pam Landry Annie Turner Joan Cheever Nicki Frey Madelon Yanta Leone Laura J. Vaccaro Regina Cheever Elizabeth Friedman Jane H. Macon Nikole Vaughn Sally Cheever Lisa A. Fullerton Christina Markell-Balleza Suzanne Wade Deena Clausen Monica Moore Gonzalez Charline H. McCombs Teri L. Wenglein Kelly Colotla Jackie L. Gorman Jessica Mobley Dela W. White Stephanie Finleon Cortez Suzanne Goudge Jennifer Moriarty Jeanie Wyatt Chris Crane Mimi Gourley Hon. Susan Pamerleau Judge Renée Yanta Roger Graham Priscilla Parsons Carrie A. Gray Anne Parrish Every effort has been made Barbara A.F. Greene Janet Pedrotti to ensure the accuracy Lisa Greer Suzanne Peterson of this list. List includes Christina Grogan Rebecca Puryear-Jennings founding members as of Sondra L. Grohman Linda A. Ramon February 28, 2017.

“Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.” - Juliette Gordon Low Founder, Girl Scouts of the USA Girl Scout Mission Building girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.

Girl Scout Law I will do my best to be honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong, and responsible for what I say and do, and to respect myself and others, respect authority, use resources wisely, make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout.

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