Stacy Stine Cary is an entrepreneur and mentor with startup accelerator Tech Wildcatters. Stacy Cary is also active in many charities and has spent time as a Girl Scout leader.

1. By Stacy Cary

2.  Stacy Stine Cary is an entrepreneur and mentor with startup
accelerator Tech Wildcatters. Stacy Cary is also active in
many charities and has spent time as a Girl Scout leader.
Girl Scouts of America is an organization that supports the
confidence, abilities, and leadership capacity of girls across
the US. Recently, a Girl Scout Brownies troop in Purvis,
Mississippi, advocated to the city’s mayor for a swing
equipped for children with disabilities.
Noticing that children in wheelchairs, for example, didn’t
have a place to play at the park, the girls made a
presentation to the city council and proposed that they buy
the swing themselves through their Girl Scout cookie
fundraising. Mayor Roger Herrin agreed, and the swing was
built.

3.  The Girl Scouts organization acknowledged that
this troop of Brownies succeeded in putting into
practice some of the major lessons the organization
is trying to teach the girls, including community
needs assessment in realizing that children with
disabilities needed better facilities to play at the
park, advocacy by presenting an idea on those
kids’ behalf, social entrepreneurship by choosing
to use their cookie money to build the swing, and
sustainability in having created something that
will last long after those individual girls grow up
and leave the Brownie troop.