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With your help and through the supportive, nurturing environment of Girl Scouts, a girl who participates in the Cookie Sale Program will gain leadership skills which will benefit her for the rest of her life.
In preparation for your first site sale, talk to your girls about setting goals. Be sure to review Safety Wise procedures and guidelines and due dates.
Important information:
Site Sale Activities
Operation Cookie Drop/Gift of Caring
Again this year, Girl Scouts of Western Washington is sponsoring Operation Cookie Drop/Gift of Caring, a council-wide community project which will deliver cookies purchased by generous customers to military personnel abroad. Our media sponsors will be on air throughout the sale informing customers about this project and encouraging customers to look for girls and their collection boxes at site sales. Make sure your girl creates a decorative Gift of Caring collection box for site sales.
Cookie Managers have colorful promotional posters for Operation Cookie Drop that list our partners Fisher Radio Seattle – STAR 101.5, KOMO 1000 News, and AM 570 KVI – and KOMO 4 that troops should use to decorate their boxes. Download a promotional Operation Cookie Drop poster for your site sale. (PDF)
Each girl in a participating troop will receive a free Gift of Caring patch at the end of sale.
Cookie Posters
Encourage your daughter to make a poster that she can use to share her sales goal and how her troop plans to utilize their proceeds. It’s a great way to get a conversation started with customers.
Responses to Possible Customer Questions
Girl Scout Cookies are one of America’s most beloved icons and millions of customers look forward to the three short weeks they are sold each year. With this well-earned "celebrity" status comes those few naysayers seeking media controversy. Customers may have questions about:
Question 1: Obesity
Should Girl Scouts—an organization devoted to raising healthy and empowered girls—sell cookies during a childhood obesity crisis?
Response: Girl Scouts teaches girls about healthy living and the importance of making wise choices such as eating any snack in moderation, including our own cookies.
We recognize that Girl Scout Cookies have been one of America’s favorite indulgences for more than 90 years and are grateful to all those who help millions of girls learn valuable life skills by purchasing Girl Scout cookies.
Question 2: Trans fats and partially hydrogenated oil
Many food products have "zero trans fats" on their packaging but then list partially hydrogenated vegetable oil as an ingredient. Is this false advertising?
Response: Most varieties of Girl Scout Cookies still contain a small amount of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (a primary source of trans fat). In compliance with FDA rules, the nutrition label lists "zero grams of trans fat" because the amount of trans fat is less than 0.5 gram per serving.
Girl Scouts teaches girls about healthy living, including eating right. The program stresses the importance of eating snacks in moderation, including our own cookies.
Question 3: Cookie Pricing
Isn't the cost of cookies the same everywhere?
Response: The price of a box of Girl Scout cookies varies across the country. The price is determined by the local cost of offering high quality Girl Scout experiences to girls and maintaining the vital services that make those activities possible, such as camp maintenance, volunteer training, and financial assistance.
All Girl Scout councils in Washington State sell their cookies for $4.00 per box.
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