Rallyhood

Rallyhood easily connects you with other volunteers, parents, and council staff.

Find resources, guides, and everything you need for a fun Girl Scout year in Rallyhood!

Join Rallyhood today!

This all-in-one platform combines many tools Girl Scout service units and troop leaders use to communicate and collaborate with families and other volunteers.

With Rallyhood, you can easily manage events, share important updates and photos, and access resources, all in one convenient location.

Volunteers benefit from streamlined coordination, enhanced communication with caregivers and troop members, and tools to simplify planning and execution of activities.

Rallyhood fosters a sense of community and teamwork, making it easier for everyone to stay connected and engaged in the Girl Scouts' mission of building girls of courage, confidence, and character.

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Recorded Training and Demo - Sept 17 2024

Rallyhood Volunteer Training | Passcode : 9S8+7jkE

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Rallies

With Rallyhood, users create "Rallies," which are private, online, digital spaces with communication and coordination tools to make collaboration fun and easy from a shared calendar, message board, and photo gallery to a place to upload and download files.

You may join GSGC's Rallies and/or have a Rally created to connect with your troop.

Platform Features

Rallyhood eliminates the inefficiency of using various communication apps and creates a more consistent way for Girl Scout members and staff to stay organized and engaged online.

Rallyhood incorporates many current communication tools that make it easy to collaborate with other volunteers and parents/guardians.

Rallyhood combines:

Event promotion, management, and registration
Photo and file sharing
Posting and responding
And much more!

Development History

For years, Rallyhood developers have worked with Girl Scout volunteers and council staff around the country, and its functionality has been designed specifically for councils, service units, and troops.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Rallyhood for? How will it help me, my community, and/or my troop? toggle arrow

The purpose of Rallyhood is to make the day-to-day responsibilities of volunteers in leadership roles easier. The Rallyhood platform combines the functionality of tools like Eventbrite, SignUp Genius, Shutterfly, Facebook, Flickr, Google Calendar, Google Forms, and Survey Monkey in one place. It seamlessly integrates so many of the functions our volunteers need — communication, calendaring, file sharing, surveys, and payment — and that’s just a partial list! Communities and troops can customize their sites with their own photos and information, creating their own space for volunteers and parents to communicate.

Why did our council choose Rallyhood? toggle arrow

Our council is launching Rallyhood this year to provide an additional level of support to communities and troops at a time when staying connected online is more important than ever. Rallyhood has been working with Girl Scout councils for over 10 years—they’re familiar with the Girl Scout movement and the needs of its volunteers. In fact, Rallyhood has worked directly with council staff and volunteers to build out functionality that addresses our organization’s unique needs. Rallyhood has created an ecosystem customized to our council and volunteer groups, and will continue to work with council staff to improve how the system works for our volunteers.

How is Rallyhood different from other apps? toggle arrow

We have heard from many volunteers that the inconsistency of using fragmented tools creates lots of challenges and makes volunteer lives difficult. A key benefit of Rallyhood is that it helps us take a more streamlined approach. The intent is to have one platform with all the tools and all our council groups in one place. It provides us with a council-wide solution that brings all of our groups, troops, committee panels, and forums together on one platform to create a more consistent and efficient Girl Scout experience for all of us.

How much does it cost? toggle arrow

Our council covers the cost of using Rallyhood. The only cost associated would be processing fees for Stripe if you choose to use the payment feature for events or activities within your community or troop.

What if my Troop already uses Rallyhood? toggle arrow

We know some troops are already using Rallyhood on their own. That’s great! Your existing Troop Rally can be integrated into our council ecosystem, which will allow you to stop paying for your own account and gain access to other council-level Rallyhood communities. Additionally, if you are currently using a free version of Rallyhood, moving your Rally to the council ecosystem will allow you to access premium paid features. To request your Troop Rally to integrate into the Gateway Council ecosystem, email support@rallyhood.com

How does a Rallyhood community work? toggle arrow

There are a number of council staff-led hubs/rallies where council staff will post content and resources. Some rallies are for volunteers only where others are for caregivers and volunteers. In addition to these staff led rallies each community has its own community volunteer hub and rallies(sub-groups) based on the GSGC Community structure (C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7 C9, C10, and C11). Within these community rallies a troop can request to form a troop rally to use for their own troop(s). Within these volunteer led rallies, a community or troop can promote events, post information, start conversations, take registration for activities, create calendars, etc.

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Community hubs and rallies can be set to public or private. If set to public, anyone could find that hub or Rally in a search, join it, and access content. If set to private, an individual needs to be invited in order to access the hub or Rally. This way you can control who is a member of individual rallies, such as inviting all troop cookie managers within your community to a Rally specific to them.

GSGC recommends all rallies be set to private so that membership within the rally can be monitored to keep all content safe. Troop rallies should always be set to private or even unlisted so that only caregivers given the direct link or invite can find the troop rally.

I’m already using other platforms (Shutterfly, Facebook, Band, etc.) to store and share files, posts, calendars, and photos. How do I move them to Rallyhood? toggle arrow

There is not an automatic way to move content from other platforms to Rallyhood, since they are competing companies. You will need to move content manually to Rallyhood by downloading from your existing platform(s) and uploading to Rallyhood. The good news—it might be a good time to clean up and reorganize your photos and files!

What are the fees associated with using the payment and special events tools in Rallyhood? toggle arrow

Rallyhood partners with Stripe to offer a safe, secure, and easy way to collect payments. Rallyhood charges a platform fee of 2.9% to help cover costs for things like development of functionality, maintenance of the technology, and security for users.

Stripe charges a credit card processing fee of 2.9% + $.30 per transaction. Organizers have a live calculation of any associated fees (platform and credit card processing) right on the setup page. As organizers are creating tickets or payment requests, they can see exactly what the fees might be without any guessing.

Rallyhood tries to keep fees as low and fair as possible. For comparison, fees on a $10 ticket in Rallyhood are $.91 vs. $2.24 in Eventbrite, which is almost 2.5 times higher.

I have a multilevel troop, can I have more than one troop rally to break it out for caregivers and leaders by level? toggle arrow

Yes, if you have a multilevel troop that operates as GIrl Scout Levels within the troop you can request your Volunteer Partnership Team create multi level Rallies for your Troop. A few good questions to ask yourself before having mulitiple rallies are:

1. Who is my audiece for each rally?

2. Who will develop posts and content for each rally?

3. Would it be easier to have one rally and then have links and files separated out by Girl Scout Level instead?

How do I create a rally? toggle arrow

Volunteer partnership team members are able to create rallies under the community hub. They can add additional admins to rallies as needed. To create a troop rally please request help from your Community Volunteer Partnership Team.

All Rallies must be created with the content name of the rally followed by ,Gateway. Ex: C2 Volunteers, Gateway This allows the rally to be nested within the Girl Scouts of Gateway ecosystem for all of Rallyhood.

What about our volunteer Facebook pages? toggle arrow

All Community volunteer Facebook pages as well as the GSGC Volunteer Facebook page will sunset by December 1st, 2024. As a council we have moved to Rallyhood to enhance collaboration, communication and connection across our council and know the broader audience on Rallyhood will help achieve this. Community 5 sunsets Facebook on October 1st, 2024, Community 3 sunsets Facebook on November 1st and all other Community Facebook pages and the main GSGC Volunteer Facebook will sunset on December 1st 2024.