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Service is more than the sum of our partnerships
Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri is honored to work with some amazing Community Service Partners! Service activities such as volunteering onsite or holding a donation drive not only benefit that organization, they also help girls become aware of needs and future opportunities within their community. View the dropdown menu for more information on the types of services our partners often request.
For questions or to add an organization to the list below please email Abby Muir or call 314.592.2312.
Douglass Community Services 
Girl Scouts can help Douglass Community Services by holding food drives
or personal care drives, helping in the food pantry/thirft store and
assisting with food distribution. All levels are welcome to hold a food
or personal care item drive at any time throughout the year. Toy drives
are needed during the months of September, October and November. In the
month of December, girls can assist with Toys for Tots distribution.
Senior and Ambassador girls are invited to help out in the food pantry
at anytime during the year. For more information on volunteering with
the pantry please reach out using the contact information below.
LifeWise StL
We have a variety of service opportunities both during the week and on Saturdays from 9am-5pm. Volunteers most often help with sorting or stocking donations in our store and market, sanitizing classrooms, outdoor beautification and pricing items for our holiday market in December.
Special opportunities include our service to-go kits (group purchases supplies for a specific kit, assembles at their own location and then delivers to LifeWise), Freedom School (summer programming), back to school event (mid-August), and holiday market (beginning of December). Some special events require additional chaperones.
Chaperone policy: Children 6-12 must be accompanied by an adult 21 or older on a 4 to 1 ratio.
Teens 13-17 must be accompanied by an adult 21 years or older on a 7 to 1 ratio.
We have an ongoing need for paper goods, hygiene items, socks, underwear and cleaning supplies. Please email Maggie at mlohmeyer@lifewisestl.org before collecting items to find out what the most urgent needs are.
Nurses for Newborns
Nurses for Newborns is looking volunteers to help hold donation drives or come on site to sort donated clothes. Check out our wishlist for our most needed items. For more information on how to help, contact Kate at kate.steele@nursesfornewborns.org.
St. Louis Altenheim
Group activities with residents such as board games, card games, arts & craft projects.
Singing, musical or theatrical performances.
Flower & vegetable gardening.
Reading to residents.
Other activities that provide positive interaction for the young ladies and our elderly residents.
Daisy and Brownie groups are welcome for special events with planning that will allow for my staffing to assist with additional oversight.
Contact
314.353.7225
Email
Location
5408 S. Broadway St.
St. Louis, MO 63111
Grade Level
Junior - Ambassador
The Little Bit Foundation
The Little Bit Foundation is committed to breaking down barriers to learning for under-resourced students and supporting them in reaching their full potential. There are many ways to help!
Volunteer in the Little Bit warehouse, individually or as a service group,helping to pull items for student orders; count, sort and prepare items for delivery; and assemble kits (days/times flexible to availability).
Host a "drive" for our most in-demand items. Helping to unload and distribute fresh and frozen food items to the community at our mobile food markets held at 3 communities on the fourth Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of the month.
The Open Space Council for the St. Louis Region
Girl scouts can help remove invasive species from parks, plant trees and native plants, pick up trash and litter from parks and streams and clean up trash and debris from rivers and lakes using canoes. View details below. For more information and to volunteer, please reach out using the contact information below.
- Operation Clean Stream - a water-based cleanup of the Meramec River held the 4th weekend of August each year.
- River des Peres Trash Bash - trash and litter clean up of parks and streams in the River des Peres watershed of St. Louis City and St. Louis County held in October each year.
- Confluence Trash Bash - a trash and litter clean up of parks and streams along the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers held in April each year.
- Operation Wild Lands - year round events to plant trees, remove invasive species and restore wildlife habitat in various parks and conservation areas in the St. Louis area
