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THE GIRL SCOUTS OF NASSAU COUNTY BECOME A CLEAN AIR NY PARTNER

Garden City, NY April 23, 2008—The Girl Scouts of Nassau County recently announced that they have signed on to be a Clean Air Community Partner through the New York State Department of Transportation’s Clean Air NY initiative.  Clean Air NY is a dynamic collaboration of organizations and individuals in the New York metro area who are taking actions to improve our air quality.

“Girl Scouts of Nassau County is very conscious of its corporate obligations, to its members, to its employees, and to the community at large,” said Donna Ceravolo, Executive Director of the Girl Scouts of Nassau County. “This partnership exemplifies our dual commitment to both the environment and our mission.”
 
Community Partners agree to be liaisons between Clean Air NY and their members or constituents, and notify them of ways they can make a greater impact in improving Air Quality. Community partners encourage their members to combine errands into one trip, utilize mass transit, bike, walk, or share a ride by carpooling to work. These simple adjustments in everyday travel will help make New York’s air quality cleaner and healthier.
 
The Girl Scouts have agreed to notify their communities of Air Quality Action Days.  As a Community Partner, their logo will be displayed on Clean Air NY’s web site and the Clean Air NY network of partners will collaborate on events for various cross-promoting benefits. The Girl Scouts of Nassau County feel strongly about offering their communities air quality friendly and healthy commute alternatives.  They promote these alternatives through LITM, a local non-profit transportation management association that helps businesses and their employees choose commute options that are better for our air quality and our environment.
 
Air quality is a serious, ongoing problem. In a survey, conducted by the New York State Department of Transportation in June 2006, about forty-two percent of New Yorkers reported that someone in their family experiences negative health effects from air pollution. Clean Air NY encourages people to make simple everyday travel choices that can make a big difference.
 
Girl Scouts of the Nassau County is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls with more than 22,000 girl and 7,000 adult members. Girl Scouting is the leading authority on girls' healthy development, and builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place. The organization, now in its 96th year, continues to strive to serve girls throughout Nassau County with innovative programming based on the values of the Girl Scout Promise and Law.
 
For more information on the Girl Scouts of Nassau County, please contact Donna Rivera Downey at 516-741-2550, ext. 260 or visit www.gsnc.org.