Girl Scout Cookies

Girl Scouts and cookies share a rich history. While recipes and box designs have changed, selling cookies remains an important part of today's Girl Scout program.

How the Girl Scout Cookie Program Helps Girls Grow

The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the nation’s premier entrepreneurship program enabling girls to develop a variety of skills they will use throughout their lives. These skills include but are not limited to:

• Leadership Development

• Ethical Decision-Making

• Presentation Skills

• Working as Part of a Team

• Setting Goals

• Developing Plans for Reaching those Goals

• Interpersonal Communication

• Customer Service

• Financial Literacy

• Money Management

Learning Life Skills

Many successful business women today say they got their start selling Girl Scout Cookies. Girls practice useful life skills like planning, decision-making, and customer service. During cookie activities, girls are members of a team working towards a common goal, with each girl striving to do her best.

Every Girl Scout troop/group is encouraged to set realistic goals, such as planning field trips and community service projects, to accomplish during the year. The money earned from cookie activities helps the troop/group achieve its goals.

So when your local Girl Scouts come calling with this year's best-selling cookies, remember you're saying hello to tomorrow's business leaders.

Making It Count

All of the proceeds—every penny—from a local Girl Scout council's cookie activities remains in the area where the cookies are sold. This revenue is used to benefit girls, some of it directly by remaining in the Girl Scout troop/group treasury and some of it indirectly by subsidizing the cost of providing the Girl Scout program in the local area.

Cookie revenue helps Girl Scout councils:

• Recruit and train volunteer leaders for each Girl Scout troop/group.

• Provide the financial assistance needed to make Girl Scouting available for all girls.

• Improve and maintain camp and other activity sites.

• Keep event/camp fees for all members to a minimum.

• Sponsor special events and projects.

Each local Girl Scout council sets the price per box, based on its needs and its knowledge of its local market. The price per box, therefore, may vary from one location to another and from one year to the next.

Today's price of $3/box reflects both the current cost of purchasing cookies from a licensed baker and the realities of providing Girl Scout activities in an ever-changing economic environment.

*** For the safety and security of the girls who are selling cookies, Girl Scout Cookies are not available for purchase online.***