Live Design International Teams Up with Girl Scouts to Help Homeless CommunityKnowing that the live production industry can be a force for good, Live Design International (LDI) has teamed up with the Girl Scouts of Central West Florida, to help provide items for their "Share the Season" badge initiative, where members of the Girl Scout community engage in volunteer activities. This year, LDI will be holding a contest in its LDI: Live Outside festival area, where attendees can bring all of their unused hotel toiletries, and donate other items, like socks and gloves, which will be distributed in care packages to homeless shelters. Donations will be weighed, and the person who donates the most products will win a 2017 LDInnovation Conference Pass and cash gift card. The idea came from LDI and Live Design marketing manager, Beth Weinstein. "Our industry is full of road warriors, and most of us travel with our own personal hygiene products. I started collecting the shampoos and soaps throughout the year, getting them from friends and colleagues during trade shows and large events, and just before the holidays, creating care packages of the essential items that we take for granted. Very often homeless shelters have shower facilities, but the participants need to supply their own hygiene items." Realizing what an opportunity LDI had with a simple act, attendees bringing even one day's worth of their hotel amenities -- soap, shampoo, and conditioner -- and dropping it off in a booth, multiplied by the expected 15,000 attendees, it made perfect sense. The Old Harbor Bay community of the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida decided to make it their annual community service project, working with the Girl Scouts of Southern Nevada, to create care packages that will be distributed to shelters in the Las Vegas, Nevada, and the Tampa Bay, area of Florida. "At Girl Scouts, we teach girls to be leaders and take action to support causes that they believe in to make the world a better place," shared Nicole Gonzalez, Girl Scouts of West Central Florida's public relations manager. "While participating in the 'Share the Season' project our girls are not just helping their local homeless population, they are also learning an important lesson on how a basic necessity such a soap or shampoo can really make a huge impact in someone else's life," continued Gonzalez. 
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