How to Choose an Issue
How will you TAKE ACTION ?
Use your values and skills to identify a community issue you care about as well as the root cause.
Need inspiration ? Ask yourself the following questions.
Then see how other girls took action
If you had 100 volunteers –
where would you send them ? Sharleen-Issue - decline in STEM as kids age 
What makes you indignant or outraged and you want to see it changed ?
Isabella Missing & murdered Indigenous Women Mikayla_Issue - Environmental Pollution Cassie - Child marriage laws 
Who do you want to help?
Who do you know? What are your resources? Kaitlyn - Issue - Sensory overload for students with autism Jordan - Issue - job seeking skills for adults with autism 
What has happened to you that changed your life and you would like to pass it on?
Fiona - Issue - dating violence Sabrina - celiac disease 
What would you tell your younger self? Kayla - Issue - injuries at band camp
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What makes you cry or feel choked up when you hear about it ?
What tugs at your heart? Liza - lack of access to school for kids in the Philippines 
What do you see in your community that you wish someone would fix?
Colette _Issue - college binge drinking 
What are your strengths ?
How could they be used to make the world a better place? Aleece - lack of historical tours in Spanish 
Is there something you have more knowledge or experience with than most people ?
How could you expand on that to educate people & advocate for change ? Madeline - Issue - lack of exposure to careers for low income youth 
Alexandra - Issue - lack of understanding of foster care experience
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Still stuck ?
Volunteer in your community or for an agency that supports something you care about. Start to observe ongoing issues that need to be resolved.
A good way to start is to ask what kind of things they need more people power to solve - not supplies they need, funds, things they need replaced, built or refurbished. They may need these things, but those would fall under the category of community service projects, short term solutions.
A good way to start is to ask what kind of things they need more people power to solve - not supplies they need, funds, things they need replaced, built or refurbished. They may need these things, but those would fall under the category of community service projects, short term solutions.
