Gift of Caring
Family Guide
Your Favorite Cookies. Your Favorite Causes
Our virtual Gift of Caring sends cookies
purchased by customers to the USO
of Metropolitian Washington for
distribution to our military and their
families in the Greater Washington Region.
Allows troops to donate to a local cause
or group they are passionate about.
Customers purchase cookies for
Girl Scouts to donate.
NEW COOKIE!
S’more adventures!
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S’more excitemen
Did you know
The tradition of making and enjoying S’mores in the outdoors was
popularized by Girl Scouts as early as the 1920s? The organization was one
of the first to publish the iconic recipe under the name “Some More” in a
1925 issue of Girl Scout Leader magazine, and then as “somemores” in an
official 1927 Girl Scout publication.
Cookie Troop 100 Challenge from GSUSA
As we celebrate 100 years of Girl Scouts selling cookies, your troop can
participate in the Cookie Troop 100 Challenge for the chance to win $100 to support
your goals!
Step 1: Set a troop goal and share the plans for proceeds
Step 2: Earn a Cookie Business badge
Step 3: As a troop, ask 100 NEW customers to buy cookies
Step 4: Enter Girl Scouts of the USA’s Bling Your Booth contest by visiting
Facebook.com/girlscouts
Once all 4 steps are completed, troop leader can submit their entry at
girlscouts.org/cookietroop100.
2017 Cookie Season
All-time
favorites
are back!
Thin Mints
Samoas
Trefoils
Tagalongs
Do-Si-Dos
Savannah
Smiles
Dear Girl Scout families,
For 100 years, Girl Scouts have sold cookies to finance their
dreams. It all started in 1917 with the Mistletoe Girl Scout Troop in
Muskogee, Oklahoma. Girls baked and sold cookies in their high
school cafeteria to fund a service project. Today, the Girl Scout
Cookie program has grown into the largest girl-led business in the
world—and it’s all thanks to your support.
Girl Scout Cookie entrepreneurs learn valuable skills that set them
up for success in life, while earning money to fund their activities
like troop travel, camping, community service projects and more.
The Cookie program also helps finance our movement, helping the
Council maintain eight camps and deliver amazing programs and
training to our members. As we celebrate 100 years of Girl Scouts
selling cookies, we hope each and every girl participates in this
incredible financial literacy program.
And with a brand new Girl Scout Cookie added to our lineup, it’s
never been a S’more exciting time to be a Cookie Boss. Inspired
by the S’more treat that Girl Scouts cook over a campfire, we can’t
wait for our customers to try our new Girl Scout S’mores Cookie,
a tasty graham cracker sandwich cookie with a chocolate and
marshmallowy filling. It’s sure to help girls have their best Cookie
sale yet.
Take a look through this guide to learn more about how you can
get involved this Cookie season. With the continued support of
dedicated parents like you, Girl Scouts will thrive for another 100
years and beyond.
Yours in Girl Scouting,
Toffee-tastic
Lidia Soto-Harmon
Chief Executive Officer
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Girl Scout Flat Dai
Once again, Girl Scouts in grades K-5 will receive their very own
Girl Scout Flat Daisy to color, cut out and take with them on all
their Cookie adventures. Show us what Flat Daisy is up to this
Cookie season by posting photos to Facebook.com/gscnc.
www.gscnc.org
Girl Scout Cookies
Build Leaders
Much more than a way to raise money, the
Cookie Program is a hands-on leadership
and entrepreneurial program. Through the
Cookie Program, girls learn skills essential for
leadership and for life:
1. Goal Setting
Your Girl Scout sets cookie sales goals individually and with her
troop, creates a plan to reach them and develops cooperation
and team-building skills all along the way!
2. Decision-Making
Your Girl Scout helps decide how her team will spend their
cookie money, furthering her critical thinking and problemsolving skills that will help her in many aspects of her life.
3. Money Management
Your Girl Scout takes cookie orders, handles customers’ money
and gains valuable and practical life skills around financial
literacy.
4. People Skills
Girl Scout Cookies
How Families Can Help
Important Dates
Order Taking Begins
Booth Sales Begin
GS Cookie Weekend
Cookie Sales End
Dec 19
Feb 17
Feb 24-26
Mar 26
How to Support Your
Girl Scout Cookie CEO:
� Listen to her practice her sales pitch
� Review cookie materials together
� Help her set practical and useful goals
about what she wants to learn and earn
� Have fun with her!
How to Support Your Tr
oop:
� Go to the Troop Family Cookie
Meeting
� Sign and return all permission slips
� Provide transportation for order
and delivery
� Help your Girl Scout network with
family and friends, but let her do
Bling Your Booth
“the ask” so she can learn important
business skills
� Get permission at your place of
work, worship or other locations
� Keep her involved in any approved
work place opportunities to sell
cookies
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Bling Your Booth 2016 winner
Your Girl Scout learns how to talk, listen and work with all kinds
of people while selling cookies. These experiences help her
develop healthy relationship and conflict resolution skills
she can use throughout her life.
5. Business Ethics
Your Girl Scout is honest and responsible at every step of the
cookie sale. Her business ethics reinforce the positive values
she is developing as a
Girl Scout.
It’s an easy way to safely take orders
online and then deliver and collect money
in person. Ask your Cookie Manager to
activate your account.
CookieClub.LittleBrownie.com
Bling Your Booth is back, and this year’s contest will be S’mores-tastic. Using the new
S’mores cookie as your theme, showcase your troop’s creative cookie marketing skills by
creating your own blinged-out booth. The top troops will earn a special Bling Your Booth
patch. To participate, post your photo to Facebook.com/gscnc by March 20, 2017 and tell
us your troop number, leader’s name and email.
Questions? Contact Michelle Eider, [email protected].
Girl Scouts Nation’s Capital | www.gscnc.org | 800.523.7898