NEW OPPORTUNITIES THE JOB OFFERS FOR DEFENSE SERVICE The finance job has new opportunities for service today. These include: 1. Opportunities to build morale: a. By getting more people to contribute some of the “new money” flowing into the community to the Girl Scout and other educational agencies, thus increasing the numbers of persons taking a responsible attitude toward the youth of the community. b. By using some of the newcomers as solicitors for funds thus helping to assimilate them into the community through giving them an opportunity to fulfill a community responsibility as well as partake of its benefits. c. By suggesting policies concerning money-raising that will utilize the help Girl Scouts can give without exploiting them. d. By making adjustments in the budget for salary increases of professionals in order to maintain a high morale and adequate standards of living among this group at a time when they are carrying extra heavy loads due to the defense program professional workers are a good investment. e. By instituting a system of accounting (if not already instituted), preferably on a functional basis, that will make it possible to show how little it costs the community to train its girls in democracy. 2. Opportunities to meet demands of the military and industrial victory program: a. By analyzing the social needs and financial resources of the community so that their financial program will be consistent with the changes made by the defense program and the war situation. b. By re-analyzing the agency resources in the face of drains of the defense program (of both money and personnel), so that changes in organization and service can be anticipated without affecting adversely the defense demands (agencies want to maintain their services without pulling from other agencies of defense). c. By instituting up-to-date methods of money-handling (if it was not done before) so that not a penny is lost or unaccounted for. d. By re-organizing the budget on a functional basis (if not done so already) so that the giving public will be able to see what Girl Scouting is contributing to the defense program at this time. (The straight-line budget will not show this as clearly and will lessen the effectiveness of the appeal for funds at a time when money is tight for social purposes.) e. By paying the national quota in full and on time, so that the national organization can push forward its program of defense activities throughout the United States, and so that youth will not be neglected. f. By suggesting financial policies that will anticipate the adjustments that must be made in the face of rising prices, rents, salaries, taxes, etc. g. By cooperating fully with other social and educational agencies in their money-raising drives in order to keep all recreational and educational efforts thriving at a time when people are under high work pressures and need these agencies the most. 24 THE PART THE COMMUNITY CAN PLAY The finance persons need from the community its financial support. They realize, however, that this in turn can be had only if the community recognizes the worth of the service the Girl Scout agency has to offer at this time, and are willing to give, not only their money, but their time as solicitors for funds. The community can cooperate in finding out what it can afford to pay and make efforts to transfer this to Girl Scouting. By such support, the community invests in training its young people to serve now and to be good citizens in the future. USE THIS SPACE TO LIST YOUR SPECIFIC LOCAL NEEDS 25