Girl Scouts of Eastern WA & Northern ID

We Are Girl Scouts.

Girl Scouts bring their dreams to life and work together to build a better world.

Through programs from coast to coast, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges—whether they want to climb to the top of a tree or the top of their class, lace up their boots for a hike or advocate for climate justice, or make their first best friends.

Backed by trusted adult volunteers, mentors, and millions of alums, Girl Scouts lead the way as they find their voices and make changes that affect the issues most important to them. 

Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho serves an area comprised of 20 counties in central and eastern Washington, and 10 counties in northern Idaho for a total of 30 counties covering 67,000 square miles. Our council reaches from the Cascade Mountains to the Montana border and from the Oregon border to the Canadian border. The council has regional field staff located in five locations: Coeur d'Alene, Lewiston and Sandpoint, Idaho, and Tri-Cities and Yakima, Washington and is headquartered in Spokane, Washington. GSEWNI serves approximately 4,600 girls in kindergarten through 12th grade with the help of 2,200 dedicated adult volunteers. Girls are at the center of everything we do as a council. Girl Scouts is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls, the leading authority on girls' healthy development, and we are working daily with girls and women to transform the leadership landscape for girls into the next century. We build girls of courage, confidence and character so that they can make the world a better place.

Our Mission

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

How? Through the Girl Scout Leadership Experience—a collection of engaging, challenging, and fun activities like earning badges, going on awesome trips, selling cookies, exploring science, getting outdoors, and doing community service projects as part of an inclusive troop guided by supportive adults. At Girl Scouts, girls get to practice teamwork in an all-girl environment to choose the exciting, hands-on activities that interest them most. Along the way, girls gain important skills in four areas that form the foundation of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience:

• Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)
• Outdoors
• Life Skills
• Entrepreneurship

In fact, being a Girl Scout helps girls thrive in five key ways; As a Girl Scout, she:

• Develops a strong sense of self by exploring who she is, what matters most to her and what talents she already has

• Displays positive values

• Gains confidence, seeks challenges and learns from setbacks

• Forms and maintains healthy relationships

• Learns to identify and solve problems collaboratively in her community