(Year 2 – Original Financial Literacy Badge – Retired)
Released in 2011. Retired in 2022.
My Own Budget replaced Philanthropist as the new Year 2 Financial Literacy Badge.
The Brownie Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting page has the information on when all badges were released.
Requirements
Five steps are needed to complete this badge:
- Learn what every person needs
- Investigate how to help people who are hungry
- Find out how to help people who need clothing
- Know how to help in times of emergency
- Think—and act—like a philanthropist
Resources available through GSUSA
- The badge is no longer in production. GSUSA stores will only sell this badge until their original stock runs out.
- Leader Guide is NO LONGER available in Girl Scout Shop online
- Official badge is NO LONGER available in Girl Scout Shop online
or look for your local shop to save on shipping. - Retired badge – no VTK available
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How to Earn
Ways to earn as a Troop or an Individual
Our Summary of the GSUSA booklet activity choices
- Learn what needs are (list, poster, discuss).
- Learn why people go hungry and who helps them (research, field trip, guest speaker).
- Learn why people don’t have clothes and who helps them (research, tour of secondhand shop, guest speaker).
- Learn how people get help after a disaster or emergency (field trip to an organization that helps, guest speaker, research).
- Review all the ways you can help people with needs and help with one (donate money, food, clothes).
Pick Out Different Activities
- Basic Info from Scouts Honor Wiki
- Activity Ideas at DS Brownie Girl Scouts
- Activity Ideas at Earn Brownie Try-Its Blog
- Printable for Step 1 at Teachers Pay Teachers for Growing Girl Scout Helpers
- Printable for Step 2-3 at Teachers Pay Teachers for Growing Girl Scout Helpers
- Steps 1-4 from GSIOWA – Archived Copy of PDF
Use a Pre-Made Plan
- Badge Blueprint from GS-HCC – Archived Copy of PDF
- PDF Meeting Plan from GSRV (River Valley) – Archived Copy of PDF
- At Home Plan w/video from GSCWM – Archived Copy of PDF
- At Home Plan from GSSEF – Archived Copy of PDF
- At Home Plan from GSWestOK – Archived Copy of PDF
- Slideshow on Google Docs from GSNWGL – Archived Copy of PPT
- Google Forms Step by Step Activities (No registration needed) from GSMidTN
Multi-Level Matches
Badges that correlate from other levels
- No Multi-level Matches available as this badge will be retired in the Summer of 2022.
Uniform
Location and placement of badge
This badge should go where #10 is stated on the GSUSA Uniform Guide.
(Note – Badges and pins on a sash simply go in order (top of sash to bottom of sash) of Identification badges, bridging badge, pins, journeys, and other badges. Anything that does not fit on the front can be placed on the back of the sash. Sashes will not hold a lot of badges and vests are recommended if you plan to earn badges.)
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