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Important Information
Parents, ask your troop leader to help you
complete the information below and
keep it on hand.
Troop leader name
Phone
Email
Pick up cookies at (location)
on (date)
Collected cookie money is due at (location)
on (date)
Welcome to the largest girl led business in the
World!
Supporting your favorite Girl Scout through the Girl Scout Cookie
Program will help her learn five key skills that she will use
throughout her life:
What do the cookies support?
All of the proceeds—every penny—from the Girl Scout Cookie
Program remain in Girl Scouts of the Commonwealth of
Virginia (GSCV). This revenue is used to benefit girls, some of it
directly by remaining in the Girl Scout troop treasury and some
of it indirectly by subsidizing the cost of providing the Girl Scout
Leadership Experience to girls in our area.
Important dates
Proceeds of the Cookie Program help Girl Scouts of the
Commonwealth of Virginia:
• Recruit and train adult volunteers
• Provide financial assistance to make Girl Scouting available
for all girls
• Improve and maintain our camps
• Keep event/camp fees for all members to a minimum
• Provide special family events
January 3
Safety first!
Your guidance and support of the Cookie Program is instrumental
to your Girl Scout’s success. Thank you for your support. We are
confident you will find the experience to be both enjoyable and
rewarding.
Order taking begins (in person and online)
February 15
Cookie booths begin
• It is strongly recommended that all children be accompanied
by someone age 18 or older when selling or delivering product
outside of their home.
March 27
Last day to sell cookies with credit toward
recognitions
• Remind your Girl Scout to wear her Girl Scout uniform, pin, or
something to identify her as a Girl Scout.
February 15-20 Cookie delivery to troops
• Girl Scouts should not enter another person’s home. All order
taking and cookie deliveries should be made at the door.
The price of cookies
Important Reminder:
The price of cookies is $4.00 per package, including the new
100th anniversary S’mores cookie. Gluten Free Trios are $5.00 per
package.
• Girls do not give their own phone number, address, or last
name to customers.
• Always sell during daylight and with another person.
• Girls should not carry large sums of money. All money needs
to be turned in by a responsible adult.
How you can help your Girl Scout?
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Attend the troop cookie meeting.
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Sign and return the parent consent form before taking orders
(available from your troop leader or at comgirlscouts.org)
•
Make sure your Girl Scout is honest and fair and waits until
January 3 to begin taking orders.
• The Gluten Free Trio is a rolled oats, peanut butter, and
chocolate chip cookie.
•
Set goals with your Girl Scout and encourage her as she
tracks her progress.
• The Gluten Free Trio is not listed on the order card.
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Support her progress in the Cookie Program. Take her to your
workplace, assist with phone orders, volunteer at the troop’s
cookie booth, and help deliver cookies.
Gluten Free Trio Cookies
• Ask your troop leader about ordering
Trios while supplies last.
•Trios do count toward girl recognitions
and the troop will earn proceeds.
• Gluten Free Trios cost $5 per package.
Goal setting
It is proven that girls will achieve a higer level of success when
they set a goal and can tell their customers what they are hoping
to use their proceeds for. Goal setting is an important life skill.
Here’s how you can help your Girl Scout:
• Discuss which types of recognitions she would like to earn
(recognitions listed on the card).
• Make sure she knows what her troop will do with their
earnings and that she can explain it to customers.
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• Help her to set not only sales goals but personal goals such
as improving speaking skills or learning money management.
How girls participate
Cookie Share
Help your daughter reach her goals by combining order taking and
cookie booths.
With our council-wide Cookie Share, Girl Scouts are able to make
a difference in our community by thanking our local service men
and women through our partnership with the Central Virginia USO.
• Customers write the
number of packages
they would like to
donate in the Cookie
Share column on the
order card and pay
for the cookies at
that time.
Order Taking—Beginning January 3
To get started, girls decide on a goal and use order cards to begin
taking cookie orders door-to-door. The total cookie order will be
shared with the troop leader. Encourage your Girl Scout to add
to the final cookie number as customers will ask to buy more
cookies! Remember cookies cannot be returned.
Cookie Booths—Beginning February 15
It is proven that customers will purchase more when the cookies
are in-hand. Make sure to have additional packages of cookies
available as you deliver pre-ordered cookies and visit family and
friends.
If you need additional cookies after February 15, talk to your troop
leader. Additional cookies are available through the end of March.
Your Girl Scout will earn credit toward recognitions on all cookies
sold through March 27. This includes the initial order, additional
packages, and a portion of cookie booth sales.
•
Customers do not
choose the variety of
cookie to be donated.
•
GSCV delivers the
cookies to the USO.
•
Girls receive credit
toward recognitions
and the troop earns
proceeds on all
Cookie Share sales.
•
Girls who sell 12 or
more packages to
donate qualify for a special patch!
Using online cookie technology
Help your Girl Scout hone her technology skills for the future by
using online cookie platforms to reach out to family and friends.
How? Just go to abcsmartcookies.com and click on the Cookie
Command Center (COCO) button. You will find a page for girls that
can help them contact people online, set goals, and more. There is
also a page available for parents!
What COCO can do:
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COCOdirect: Lets girls send
ecards to family and friends
out of town for them to
pay online (with a shipping
charge) and have the cookie
delivered.
•
COCOmobile: Lets parents
download an app that can
be used as a digital order card (available for all smart
phones).
What are troop proceeds and how are they
calculated?
Troop proceeds represent the money that is earned and
deposited directly into the troop treasury. Troops earn proceeds
on the packages sold based on the selling average of the girls
participating in the sale. The per-girl average is determined
by taking the total number of packages sold by the troop and
dividing by the number of girls participating in the Cookie
Program. It is important to remember that troop proceeds belong
to the Girl Scout troop and not to the individual members of
the troop. Decisions about spending troop proceeds need to
reflect the wishes and interests of all the girls.
Cookie Booths
Your Girl Scout can strengthen her people skills and decision
making by running a cookie booth at an area business. Cookie
booths are a fun way for troops to get together and really put
some of their financial literacy skills to the test. Individual girls
should not set up cookie booths on their own. Talk to your troop
leader about cookie booth procedures.
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Message for Girls:
Recognitions
As a girl on a mission, we’re here to support you
and recognize all your hard work. Our council
has put together some pretty cool rewards and
recognitions to inspire you to meet your goals and
reach for the stars. A full line up of recognitions
has been included inside your order card. Girls
earn recognitions based on the number of packages they sell
through March 27. Recognitions are cumulative.
Summer Camp opportunities
Pathway Passes are part of your recognition
line up that can be used as credit
towards toward any Girl Scouts of the
Commonwealth of Virginia overnight or
day camp in addition to fun council events.
Watch your mailbox for the 2017 Summer
Camp Book.
Cookie Boss
GSCV will hold the 3rd Annual Cookie
Boss celebration at Girl Scout Night at
the Diamond on June 2, 2017. All girls
are invited to attend Girl Scout Night at
the Diamond, but Cookie Bosses who
sell 500 or more boxes of cookies will
receive 2 free tickets to the game and
Acorn Bucks to spend on food or merchandise at the game!
Stellar Seller
This exclusive event for top cookie sellers is sure to excite! Girls
who sell 750 or more boxes of cookies are invited to our Stellar
Seller event on June 11, 2017 for a special day at Pamunkey
Ridge Girl Scout Camp which includes a rewards presentation,
ice cream, s’mores, music, and the 1000 Circle Brick dedication
ceremony at Cookie Lane!
100th Anniversary of Girls Selling Cookies
In 2017, we’ll be celebrating 100 years of
Girl Scouts selling cookies! In honor of
this incredible milestone, we’re excited to
introduce to you our NEW Girl Scout S’mores
cookie!
Camping has been a time honored tradition
in Girl Scouts since day one. In fact, the first recorded S’mores
recipe appeared in “Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts,”
published in 1927. We’ve updated this classic campfire snack to
reflect the modern sensibility of today’s Girl Scouts. We took a
crispy graham cookie and double-dipped it with a yummy creme
icing and a scrumptious chocolatey coating. You get all the flavor
of this fireside favorite without all the sticky mess!
The Girl Scout S’mores cookie captures this spirit of
togetherness and adventure and is topped off with a comforting
taste of home. Warm and inviting - just like the Girl Scouts!
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Girl Scouts of the
Commonwealth of Virginia
4900 Augusta Avenue
Suite 200
Richmond, VA 23230
804-746-0590
www.comgirlscouts.org
[email protected]