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Cookie Sales
Program Activities
For over 75 years, Girl Scout cookie activities have helped
girls learn invaluable skills, such as decision-making, money
management, and delivering on a promise. These activities
are directly related to our mission of helping build girls
of courage, confidence and character.
 Benefits
of the Sale
The Cookie Sale is a program-based activity for girls.
Supporting materials and activities encourage the development
of valuable LIFE SKILLS such as:
- Responsibility…through gathering
orders and turning in information on time.
- Communication skills…through
talking to customers about the cookies and how the funds
will be used.
- Financial and math skills…through
adding orders, making change and tracking money.
- Entrepreneurial skills…through
creating new ways to sell and distribute cookies.
- Self-reliance/self-confidence…by
overcoming shyness, learning to talk to others, setting
and achieving group and personal goals, and discovering
new strengths.
- Teamwork…by working with others
for the benefit of all.
- Goal-setting and planning…through
having a framework for meeting goals.
- Honesty and integrity…through
using a meaningful set of values, The Girl Scout Promise
and Law, to guide their actions.
In addition girls can earn personal recognitions such as
patches, charms, t-shirts and more.
Troop Benefits
Troops earn funds per each box of cookies they
sale. These monies can be used for start up funds for troop
activities including community service projects, program
events and outdoor activities. The focus of the cookie sale
is to provide troops with valuable learning skills and the
necessary funds for Girl Scout Program activities.
Council Benefits
Girl Scouts of Frontier Council uses proceeds from the cookie
sale to provide resources for girl programs, adult training
and support, facilities maintenance and financial assistance
to girls. It also includes the percentage given back to the
individual troop/group or Juliette that sold the cookies. These
funds support their activities and purchase recognitions. Girls
do not receive the money individually; instead they decide
as a troop/group how to spend it. Juliettes have their money
held in trust at the council office, where they may use it
for membership registration, program and camp fees or the purchase
of Girl Scout items.
During the 2007 Annual Cookie Sale a total of752,844 boxes
of Girl Scout Cookies were sold, which represented a per girl average
of 234 boxes sold. ABC
Cookie Company provides resources for the Girl Scouts of Frontier
Council.
Cookie Web Sites
ABC Bakers has designed a web site for the annual Cookie
Sale. The site is for girls, families, and volunteers and features tips
and goal-setting guidance, clip art for downloading, interactive games,
and even a catchy song! Visit www.abcsmartcookies.com.
This site has clip art and photography for leaders to help girls create
invitations and posters. Also selling and training suggestions, mouth-watering
recipes-and much more.
Cookie Sale Program Dates:
•Cookie
Kickoff Carnival- January 12, 2008
•Pre-orders begin: January 19, 2008
•Girl cookie orders due to troop- February 4, 2008
•Troop cookie orders due to service unit- February 6, 2008
•Service Unit Cookie deliveries- February 22-23, 2008
•Girls begin delivery of cookie pre-orders- February 22, 2007
•Booth Sales begin- February 29, 2008
•Cookie sale ends- March 16, 2008
•Troop final cookie paperwork due to service unit-March 25, 2008
Breakdown- Monies Earned per Box:
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Cookies
sell at $3.50 per box:
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Troop
Profit
Troop Incentive
Land, Building and Equipment Fund
Girl Program
Cost of Cookies
Cookie Program Operational Cost
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$ .75
$ .05
$ .10
$1.55
$ .90
$ .15
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Cookie Program Participation Requirements
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Girl Scouts must be registered Brownie through Senior
age level (Daisy Girl Scouts CANNOT sell cookies or other products-
see GSUSA Standards 28-31/ Chapter 6 of Safety-Wise). *NOTE:
These standards will change beginning Fall 2008.
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Your registered troop/ group MUST have a Girl
Scout checking account on file at the Council office.
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December Bank Statement and Troop Treasury Report
must be turned in to the financial consultant prior to receiving
order cards.
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Leader, Troop Cookie Manager AND Troop Assistant
Cookie Manager must be currently registered with the Girl Scouts
of the USA.
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Leader and/or Troop Cookie manager must attend cookie
training.
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Girls with outstanding balances from the Fall Product
Sales Program (nuts/ calendars) should not be permitted to take
pre-orders, or pick up cookies to sell. She may, however, participate
with the troop selling cookies at a troop cookie booth to earn her
program patch.
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It is recommended that parents/ guardians who wish
to sell on behalf of their Girl Scout, be registered members of
the Girl Scouts of the USA.
Exemption From Federal Taxes
Individuals who buy Girl Scout cookies and take the cookies home or consume
the cookies, have purchased a product at a fair market value. For this
reason, no part of the price of a box of Girl Scout cookies is tax-deductible.
Many Girl Scouts ask customers to pay for one or more boxes of cookies for use
with their community service project— for example, collecting for a food
pantry. These customers do not receive any Girl Scout cookies and so do not benefit
directly from paying for the cookies. These individuals may treat the purchase
price of the cookies as a charitable contribution.
For further information, please contact Toni
Carey or the council service center.
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