Annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale begins Friday
TOLEDO, OH—People say it’s just a cookie. What can a cookie do? A Girl Scout Cookie can do many things. It could send a girl to camp. It could help pay to refurbish a room at a homeless shelter. It could cheer up a solider who is far from home.
A Girl Scout cookie could help buy school supplies for underprivileged kids, or fly a troop of girls from Toledo, Bowling Green, or Defiance to Washington, D.C. Some of these girls will go back to Washington as congresswomen or senators. One day our first female president may reminisce about the time she visited our capitol and stood inside the Lincoln Memorial with her Girl Scout troop. The cookies you buy could be the boxes that inspire a president.
When you buy Girl Scout cookies, girls decide where the money goes. They have big hearts and big imaginations.
Girl Scout cookies can help bring out the confidence in a girl. It’s no easy thing to ask a stranger to buy something. You have to speak up, look them in the eye, believe in what you’re doing, and believe in yourself. With every season of Girl Scout cookies, another generation of girls learns to set goals, make a plan, and manage money. As women they’ll need to know these things whether their goal is to start a business, a family, or both. Indeed, no university has produced as many female business owners as has the Girl Scout Cookie Sale.
“Girl Scouts is the best leadership development program for girls in the United States,” said Barbara J. Bonifas, CEO of Girl Scouts of Western Ohio. “Through the Girl Scout cookie sale girls develop five essential skills – goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics. And troops often decide to spend some of their earnings investing in the community through service projects.”
Beginning Jan. 21, girls in northwest Ohio will begin taking Girl Scout cookie orders. All proceeds from the sale of Girl Scout cookies stay in the community. Girl Scouts of Western Ohio is participating in a promising new pilot project this year called Super Six. Girls will be selling a premium selection of the best-selling Girl Scout Cookies ever including: Do-Si-Dos, Lemon Chalet Cremes, Samoas, Tagalongs, Thin Mints, and Trefoils.
“Our annual Girl Scout cookie activities, in addition to United Way funding, help us make the Girl Scout Leadership Experience available to all girls who want to participate,” Bonifas said.
In addition to the money earned by the girls, Girl Scout cookie proceeds fund vital services such as leader training and camp operations, as well as a variety of Girl Scout program initiatives.
Girl Scout cookies are a familiar party of American culture. For more than 80 years, Girl Scouts with the enthusiastic support of their families have helped ensure the success of local Girl Scout cookie activities. From its earliest beginnings to its current popularity, the sale of cookies has helped Girl Scouts have fun, develop valuable life skills, and make the world a better place by helping to support Girl Scouting in their communities.
This year Girl Scout cookies made by Little Brownie Bakers are available in the six flavors listed above and are selling for $3.50 a box.
Press Release Contact Name: Traci Curth
Press Release Contact Email: [email protected]
Press Release Contact Phone: 419-243-8216
Organization Name: Girl Scouts of Western Ohio
Website or Link: www.girlscoutsofwesternohio.org
Organization Address: 2244 Collingwood Blvd, Toledo, OH, 43620