Girl Scout Cookie Sale Fact Sheet 2017
2017 Cookie Sale: January 1 – March 31
Powered by the Girl Scout Cookie Program
Ready for Cookies? Buying Girl Scout cookies is more than just
handing over $4.00 for a box. It’s about the skills and learning a
girl gains from interacting directly with you. It’s about the
experience of running her own cookie business and working with
others. Your purchase means you get tasty cookies—and a girl
learns a lifetime of skills.
When girls participate in the cookie program, they are exposed to
unique experiences and learn essential life skills. Plus their
confidence soars, and the leader in them begins to step up in
powerful, everyday ways—when she raises her hand to speak up,
when she says “yes” to a challenge, or when she finds the silver
lining in a bad day. Your Girl Scout Cookie purchase helps make
it all possible. Find your cookies at girlscoutcookies.org.
100th Anniversary of Girl Scouts Selling Cookies
Well before Girl Scout Cookies were produced by licensed bakers to sell
nationally, Girl Scouts baked and sold cookies on their own. Our girls were
entrepreneurs going as far back as 1917! In 2017, we celebrate the 100th
anniversary of the first known instance of Girl Scouts selling cookies and
learning the basic skills and acumen they need to be leaders in business and
sales, manage their personal and family finances, and gain self-sufficiency and
confidence handling money.
NEW COOKIE: Girl Scout S'mores Cookies
We’re celebrating 100 years of Girl Scouts selling cookies by
introducing new Girl Scout S’mores cookies. That’s right! We’re
combining two iconic Girl Scout traditions—s’mores and Girl Scout
Cookies! Joining legendary classics like Thin Mints and Caramel
deLites/Samoas, the new Girl Scout S’mores cookies will be sold in
Virginia Skyline Council this cookie sale season. Our new crispy
graham cookie double dipped in yummy crème icing and finished
with a scrumptious chocolatey coating (WHOA!) is one more
delicious way to support her next adventure!
National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend 2017
Friday, Feb. 24 - Sunday, Feb. 26
On this weekend, Girl Scouts across the nation will band together to speak
as a single, powerful voice to raise awareness of the Girl Scout Cookie
Program and its five business skills to success: goal setting, decision
making, money management, working with people, and business ethics. This
weekend includes lots of booth selling locations for the cookie sale.
Girl Scout Cookie Sale Fact Sheet 2017
Find a Local Cookie Booth Sale
Go to this nationwide “Find Cookies!” database at
girlscoutcookies.org, enter your zip code and click go! It’s that
easy! We encourage you to purchase cookies from your local Girl
Scout whenever possible.
Win a Year’s Supply of Girl Scout Cookies!
When you purchase 5 boxes of cookies, you are entered into a drawing to win a year’s supply of Girl Scout
Cookies! You receive one contest entry for every 5 boxes purchased – and there is no limit to the amount of 5
box coupons you can enter. At the end of our sale on March 31, all coupons will be turned into the local council
headquarters in Roanoke, VA for a drawing to take place in May for four winners — one for each region of our
council. The winner will receive 52 boxes of a mixed variety of Girl Scout cookies (52 boxes = one box of
cookies for each week of the year).
Gluten-Free Cookie: Trios
Millions of Americans have problems eating food with gluten
– so we have created a delicious cookie just for them! Made
with real chocolate chips, real peanut butter and certified
gluten-free whole grain oats.
Girl Scout Cookie Facts
Did you know?
 Our cookies have zero grams of trans-fat per serving.
 Our cookies are made with 100% real cocoa.
 We use only pure peppermint oil in our best-selling Thin Mints.
 We use Virginia-grown peanuts in our peanut butter filled cookies.
 Our cookies have no preservatives.
 Four of our cookies are vegan (no eggs or dairy).
 Girl Scouts have been selling cookies to raise funds for 100 years (since 1917)!