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The 2013 Girl Scout Cookie Program
The 2013 Girl Scout Cookie Season is January 13 - March 10, 2013.
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How do girls use their proceeds?
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2013 Cookie Varieties
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This year GSGLA is offering a Super Six variety of cookies, a premium selection of customer favorites: Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, Do-So-Dos, Trefoils, and Savannah Smiles. Download the Cookie Varieties Flier. |
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New Cookie Boxes for 2013!Girl Scout Cookie boxes have gotten a much-anticipated facelift! While size, quantity, and weight of cookies remain exactly the same, the new boxes better inform customers of the benefits of the cookie program, as well as the importance of the Girl Scout Movement.
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5 Skills Girls Learn from the Cookie Program
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GOAL SETTING: Your Girl Scout will set sales goals when she participates in the Fall Product Program. Learning how to set a goal individually and as a group and then creating a plan to reach them helps her develop cooperation and team building skills. Goal setting is a valuable skill that she can use every single day of her life and can apply to most everything she does. |
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DECISION MAKING: Helping to decide how her troop will spend their Fall Product money will require her to make decisions. Learning to make decisions and working as a group will help her to develop her critical thinking and problem solving skills. Becoming a confident decision maker will always serve her well. |
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MONEY MANAGEMENT: Your Girl Scout takes cookie orders, handles customers' money, and gains valuable and practical life skills around financial literacy. From deciding how to use program proceeds to deciding how much she can afford to spend on a car payment, learning to manage money is a necessary skill for everyone.
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PEOPLE SKILLS: Your Girl Scout learns how to talk to, listen to and work with all kinds of people while selling cookies. These experiences will allow your Girl Scout to develop healthy relationship and conflict resolution skills she can use throughout her life. She can learn to ask a teacher for help, work with others on school projects, or become part of a sports team.
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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. Because she is honest, her friends, classmates, and teachers count on her and think of her as trustworthy. Everyone likes knowing and working with someone that is honest and responsible. |
Gift of Caring Program
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The Gift of Caring program is a council-wide service project that gives the community the chance to donate cookies to military troops overseas and other nonprofit partners. The program provides Girl Scouts the opportunity to learn philanthropy. |
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To participate:
- Troops collect monetary donations from customers (many customers prefer to donate money, rather than purchase products).
- The donations are then used by the council to purchase boxes of cookies.
- Those products get donated to our nonprofit Gift of Caring partners, such as the L.A. Regional Foodback, Operation Gratitude, Goodwill, or the USO.
It's the perfect way for customers to give back to Girl Scouts and their community, even if they choose not to buy products for themselves!
Gift of Caring Program Info for Troops
When your troop sells product through Gift of Caring, the product is not physically picked up by the customer or the troop. This is why it is described as a virtual donation. Here are the steps for participating in Gift of Caring:
- Girls collect the donation and complete the Gift of Caring Receipt if the customer requests it.
- Give one copy to the customer and keep one for the troop records.
- Record the quantity sold in eBudde under Gift of Caring (GOC).
- Recording in eBudde lets GSGLA know how many boxes to purchase and gives girls credit for boxes sold.
- Girls are eligible for the Gift of Caring Rocker Patch for selling 10 or more boxes. A special charm bracelet is also available this year for 24+ boxes sold.
The troop receives their proceeds and the donor can feel good that their tax deductible donation is supporting Girl Scouts AND our nonprofit partners!
2013 Cookie Program GOC Partners
All Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles Gift of Caring Partners are registered 501(c)3 non-profit organizations.
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The Los Angeles Regional Foodbank is a charitable food distribution network that includes nearly 900 charitable agency sites throughout Los Angeles County such as food pantries, shelters, senior and childcare centers, and others. |
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The Bob Hope Hollywood USO at LAX provides a “touch of home” to all veterans and service men and women by providing morale, welfare and recreation support services. This home away from home serves as a comfortable private reception area for service men and women to be with their family before deployment. In addition, it is a welcoming reception area when they return from tours of duty from around the world. |
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Operation Gratitude seeks to lift morale and put smiles on faces by sending care packages addressed to individual Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines deployed in harm's way. Care packages contain food, hygiene products, entertainment items and personal letters of appreciation, all wrapped with good wishes of love and support. |
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Goodwill of Southern California enhances the dignity and quality of life of individuals, families and communities by eliminating barriers to opportunity and helping people in need reach their fullest potential through the power of work. The organization seeks to improve the quality of life for people with disabilities or other disadvantages by providing education, training and job opportunities to assist them in becoming more self-sufficient and productive members of society. Girl Scout cookies are utilized at Goodwill’s Worksource & Job Service Centers who provide mentoring, counseling and educational programs for at-risk youth in five LA locations. These services are meant to keep kids in school, focused and on track with their lives. |
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Blue Star Mothers (BSM) is an organization comprised of mothers who now have, or have had, children honorably serving in the military. The organization’s mission is to support Veterans in a tangible, thoughtful way. BSM members volunteer their time to visit service personnel in VA hospitals during long rehabilitative procedures. Members also commit to attend the military funeral for all local fallen heroes. Cookies donated through GSGLA’s Gift of Caring program will be sent to United States' military personal in care packages and delivered to those facing long hospital stays to brighten the soldier’s day. |
| Troops may donate leftover product to an organization of their choice, but cannot solicit donations for any other organization. This is per GSUSA’s Safety Activity Checkpoints. The Gift of Caring council-wide service project is the only activity of this type approved by Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles and follows both GSUSA and the US Department of Defense Guidelines. | |
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Thank you Gift of Caring Media Partner What do girls do with their proceeds?
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This year, girls are thrilled to launch their very own cookie enterprises that help them reach their goals. Whether girls plan to use their proceeds to go camping, serve underprivileged children or adventure to Europe, the Girl Scout Cookie Program teaches them they have the power and resources to achieve. Much more than a fundraiser, the cookie program is a fun way for girls of all ages to earn the money that fuels their dreams and develop skills that will last a lifetime.
The cookie program can lead to bigger things in business, in society, and in life. So what can a girl do? A world of good! |