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Girl Scouts and cookies share a rich history.
While recipes and box designs have changed, selling cookies
remains an important part of today's Girl Scout program.
Why Girl Scout Cookies?
The activity of selling cookies is directly related to our purpose of helping all girls realize
their full potential and become strong, confident, and resourceful citizens
- Girl Scouts practice life skills like goal setting, money management, and teamwork—and they have fun!
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.
Learning Life Skills
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.
Making It Count
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. Improve and maintain camp and other activity sites. Keep event/camp fees for all members to a minimum.
- Sponsor special events and projects.
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. Did You Know?
Girl Scout Cookies -- those delicacies sold once a year and eaten year round (if you have room in your freezer for a case of Thin Mints) -- were up +3,400% in the Yahoo Search by mid-January. Since the official launch of cookie season, total searches have nearly doubled, and "girl scout cookies" now ranks within Yahoo's top 2,000 searches. "Buy girl scout cookies" (+124%) is up as well.
Cookie sales isn’t the only way Girl Scouts help provide the financial support for their own
troops and GS-West. Many of our girls also participate in QSP (Quality Subscription Program)
sales, and candy and nut sales in the fall.
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