Girl Scouts Eye $40M Detroit Campus Plan (lease, camping)

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Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan is developing plans for a $35 million-$40 million campus in Detroit that will offer free and fee-based programs to all youth, scouts and non-scouts, girls and boys alike.
It has identified a location and is exploring a possible lease or donation of the property, which could accommodate several new buildings, camping and other outdoor programs like a zip line and rope course, CEO Monica Woodson said.The current thinking is to have a few different buildings that connect in some way" to create a campus with dedicated space to offer to all youth programs in GSSEM's four core program areas: science, technology, engineering and math; entrepreneurship; outdoors and life skills."The location is a driver in many ways of the plan. My hope is to have that locked in the next 60 days," Woodson said.



The LEAD [[learn, experience adventure and discover) Institute, as GSSEM is calling the campus plan is aimed at helping bridge educational and recreational gaps for youth in the region, the organization said.

GSSEM secured a $1 million state earmark, its first ever, to help fund planning, research and data collection for the project over the next 12-18 months. It's developing plans for a campaign to cover the capital costs and possibly raise a permanent endowment to subsidize program costs for those who need it and support ongoing operations of the institute, Woodson said.


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