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Girl Scouts Receive Grant for "Green" Building
Kresge Foundation Awards $400,000.00 Challenge Grant

Media Contact:
Ann Marie van den Hurk, APR
302-456-7170
avandenhurk@cbgsc.org

Newark, DE, February 21, 2006:  The Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Council is pleased to announce that they have been awarded a $400,000 challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation.  We are very proud to be among the 217 grant recipients in 2005 for this prestigious grant.  Grant recipients were located in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, South Africa and Mexico.  The Kresge Foundation is an independent, private foundation created by the personal gifts of Sebastian S. Kresge.

The Kresge challenge grant is designated for the Girl Scout Camp Country Center in Hockessin, Delaware, where the major project is a new Science and Technology Lodge, which will be used by girls from across the Delmarva Peninsula.  The Lodge will be a “green” (a high performance, environmentally- responsible building), for which we received a $60,000 “green” planning grant from The Kresge Foundation in 2004.  And, in addition to the $400,000 challenge grant, we will be receiving a $150,000 “green” bonus grant from the foundation when the Lodge is completed and LEED certified by the United States Green Building Council under their LEED certification.

The challenge grant from the Kresge Foundation requires the Girl Scouts to raise the balance of its campaign goal in order to meet this challenge.  The campaign goal for all four camps is $5,200,000 and, as of this date $3,900,000 has been raised.  When the total raised reaches $4,800,000 the challenge will have been met. To join the efforts, please contact Audrey Boys, Chief Development Officer, at 302-778-0293.

Girl Scouting builds girls of confidence, courage, and character, who make the world a better place. We do that by providing girls with personal leadership development and programs that build real life skills for the real world.

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