HARTFORD, CONN. (Jan. 26, 2016) – Did you know that there is still time to order Girl Scout Cookies? That’s right. Girl Scouts are out in their communities taking orders for your favorite Girl Scout Cookies and in March they will be staffing cookie booths at many locations in your area.
Cookies available this year are Thin Mints, Trefoils, Samoas, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, Rah-Rah Raisins, Savannah Smiles and Toffee-tastic (limited availability).
The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girl-led, entrepreneurial business in the world. There’s something worth sharing inside each box of Girl Scout Cookies – Girl Scouts who participate in the Girl Scout Cookie Program learn a myriad of skills. By purchasing a box of cookies, supporters are helping girls learn Five Skills: goal setting, money management, business ethics, people skills, and decision making.
Last year, nearly 160,000 Girl Scouts experienced a revolutionary update to the Girl Scout Cookie Program: Digital Cookie 1.0, an online cookie-selling platform. Girl Scouts of Connecticut was among the five top councils in the nation for total boxes sold. This year, Digital Cookie has been enhanced to a more robust and hands-on learning experience for the girls!
Digital Cookie 2.0 includes an enhanced cookie website with fun quizzes, games, videos, and other activities that offer girls opportunities to learn budgeting and resource allocation using a “spend, save, and give” model. Girls also will become familiar with business and sales concepts, explore impactful and philanthropic ways to invest their cookie earnings, learn about Internet safety, and more.
The proceeds from Girl Scouts of Connecticut’s Cookie Program stay in Connecticut and directly benefit all of the Girl Scouts in Connecticut, including the Girl Scout troop or group from which the cookies were purchased.
This year, Cookies for Heroes also returns. Last year, more than 120,000 boxes of cookies were sent to our service women and men and local heroes, and this year, we want to send even more! The Cookies for Heroes Service Project allows customers to support their local Girl Scout and our heroes. Girl Scouts of Connecticut, along with community partners, will deliver the cookies to service women and men overseas and at home.
Girl Scout Cookie fans who don’t know a Girl Scout can log onto gsofct.org and click on the cookie to connect with Girl Scouts participating in the Cookie Program in their area.
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