More about Girl Scout Cookie Program Activity
GIRL SCOUT COOKIES. BE PART OF THE TRADITION.
The Girl Scout Cookie Program Activity is America’s leading business and economic literacy program for girls. Run by girls, for girls, the activity helps girls discover new skills, connect through teamwork, and take action in their communities, making Girl Scouting the premier leadership development experience for girls. This year… MAKE it a HIT! This show-stopping cookie season theme uses theater arts to put girls in the spotlight. Girls learn that hits don’t just happen. They’re made…through imagination, rehearsal, commitment, teamwork, and leadership.
The Girl Scout Cookie Program Activity is more than just a way for a troop to earn money. It’s a program activity that helps develop leadership skills girls can apply throughout their lives. Even the youngest Girl Scouts gain self-confidence and poise by learning how to greet customers and offer cookies for purchase. As girls grow, the activity grows with them by introducing new emphasis and business skills, including getting to know their product and creative marketing strategies and tools.
GIRLS DISCOVER! 21ST CENTURY BUSINESS AND
ECONOMIC SKILLS WHEN THEY:
- Monitor their progress towards personal and troop goals
- Learn fiscal responsibility and money management basics from making change and tracking revenues to creating budgets.
- Earn badges and other recognitions.
GIRLS CONNECT! CARE ABOUT, INSPIRE, AND TEAM
WITH OTHERS WHEN THEY:
- Work as a team with other girls to set troop goals.
- Share personal and troop goals with cookie customers.
- Work creatively in teams to design flyers and posters, schedule work times and sales locations, track inventory and revenues, review safety rules, and schedule deliveries.
- Explore careers related to the Cookie Program Activities such as accounting manager, event planner, public relations specialist, sales, and graphic designer.
GIRLS TAKE ACTION! ACT TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE WHEN THEY:
- Learn and discover more about their neighborhood businesses and resources, as well as specific community needs and projects they can help support with the Cookie Program Activity.
- Improve their communities by getting involved with the people and organizations that need their support.
- Participate in the Cookie Program Activity because a portion of the proceeds from each box of Girl Scout cookies supports Girl Scouting for all 49,000 local girls in the Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys.
IMPORTANT DATES - 2008 COOKIE PROGRAM ACTIVITY
- Saturday, January 19: Cookie Go Day! Cookie order-taking begins. Before this date, girls can promote the sale and let customers know they will be seeking and accepting orders on this date.
- Sunday, February 3: Last day of initial order-taking.
- Monday, February 4: Initial order cards are due to the troop cookie manager. Girls receive goal-getter order cards and may continue to seek and accept cookie orders.
- Monday, February 4 – Sunday, March 30: Girls continue to seek and accept cookie orders using their goal-getter order cards.
- Friday, February 29 – Sunday, March 30: Cookie delivery to customers, cookie goal-getter orders, and cookie booths take place.
COOKIES SUPPORT LOCAL GIRL SCOUTING
Each box of Girl Scout cookies is more than just a sweet treat. It supports local girls in our community. Only 83 cents per package goes to the cookie baker. The remaining $2.67 supports girls through direct troop proceeds, Cookie Credits, fun recognition items, as well as hundreds of council-sponsored program events, resources, adult volunteer trainings, and beautiful camps and program centers.
This year, approximately 40,000 girls will be selling Girl Scout cookies! Goal-setting is an important life skill learned with the Cookie Program Activity. Girls set their own realistic individual goals to help the troop reach their troop goal. In 2008, girls are projected to earn almost $3.37 million dollars in monetary troop proceeds alone!
The Girl Scout Cookie Program Activity is first and foremost an age-specific program for girls. There is no other “fundraising” program or activity like it. With the support of adult volunteers, girls set their own goals and, more importantly, choose how they would like to use their troop proceeds.
HOW THE COOKIE CRUMBLES
- $ .47-.92 Troop Proceeds*, Cookie Credits, and Girl Recognition Items
- $1.75-2.20 Council Programs, Services, Resources, and Camps**
- $ .83 Cost of Cookies
- $3.50 Total
*Troop Proceeds
With the guidance of adults, troops decide how to spend their cookie proceeds. Troop proceeds can help pay for supplies and books, field trips, cookouts and camping, community service projects, and other special troop activities.
**Council Programs, Services, Resources, and Camps
The Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys serves more than 65,000 girls and adult volunteers in the 49-country jurisdiction each year. Proceeds from the Girl Scout Cookie Program Activity help provide all girls with access to hundreds of high-quality council programs; trained, competent leaders; safe, well-maintained camps and facilities; and many other resources and activities for girls and adult volunteers.
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