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Why Sell Girl Scout Cookies®?
Why Cookies?
Life Skills Learned
Source of Revenue
Bakers
Girl Scouts +
Cookies = A Winning Combination!
Since the 1920s Girl Scouts have
sold cookies as a way to raise money for troop activities.
Sponsored by the GSUSA, the Cookie Program is a program activity in
which Brownies through Senior troops voluntarily participate
(Daisy troops do not participate.
Girl Scouts and cookies share a
rich history. While recipes have changed, and so have the boxes,
selling cookies remains an important part of today's Girl Scout
program.
Why Girl Scout Cookies®?
Because selling cookies is fun
for girls…and it's a great win-win activity:
- Girl Scouts practice life
skills, like goal setting, money management, and teamwork.
- Customers get a great product
and get to support girls in their own community.
- All of the proceeds support
Girl Scouting in the local community.
These activities are directly
related to our purpose of helping all girls realize their full
potential and become strong, confident and resourceful citizens.
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Life Skills Learned
Many successful business women
today say they got their start selling Girl Scout cookies®.
Girls practice useful life skills like planning,
decision-making, and customer service. During cookie activities,
girls are members of a team working towards a common goal, with
each girl striving to do her best.
Every Girl Scout troop/group is
encouraged to set realistic goals, such as planning field trips
and community service projects, to accomplish during the year.
The money earned from cookie activities helps the troop/group
achieve its goals.
So when your local Girl Scouts
come calling with this year's best-selling cookies, remember
you're saying hello to tomorrow's business leaders.
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Source of Revenue
All of the proceeds — every penny
— from a local Girl Scout council's cookie activities remains in
the area where the cookies are sold. This revenue is used to
benefit girls, some of it directly by remaining in the Girl
Scout troop/group treasury and some of it indirectly by
subsidizing the cost of providing the Girl Scout program in the
local area.
"Cookie revenue" helps Girl Scout
councils:
- Recruit and train volunteer
leaders for each Girl Scout troop/group.
- Provide the financial
assistance needed to make Girl Scouting available for all
girls.
- Keep event/camp fees for all
members to a minimum.
- Sponsor special events and
projects.
- Improve and maintain camp and
other activity sites.
- Be, in large measure,
self-supporting.
Each local Girl Scout council
sets the price per box, based on its needs and its knowledge of
its local market. The price per box, therefore, may vary from
one location to another and from one year to the next. Today's
prices reflect both the current cost of purchasing cookies from
a licensed baker and the realities of providing Girl Scout
activities in an ever-changing economic environment.
Selling Girl Scout cookies® is
part of our Girl Scout heritage and tradition. It is an
important part of what makes Girl Scouting an institution in
this country.
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Bakers
The national Girl Scout
organization, Girl Scouts of the USA, approves and licenses the
bakers of Girl Scout cookies®. At the bakeries, the cookies are
produced by American labor union members from American-grown
agricultural products and wrapped in American-made packaging
materials.
The approved bakers work directly
with local Girl Scout councils. Each one of our councils
selects which baker it will work with and sets the price per box
in its area.
Contact your local Girl Scout
council to find out when and where cookies will be sold and what
cookie varieties will be available in your community.
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