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Saturday, February 2 - Sunday, March 17, 2013
The 2013 Cookie Season is here! When a Girl Scout sells cookies, she’s building a lifetime of skills and confidence. She learns goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics-aspects essential to leadership, to success, and to life. By putting her mind and energies to something, a Girl Scout can overcome any challenge. There are no limits. She can be anything. She can do anything!
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Why The Cookie Sale Matters
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 from Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma’s cookie sale remains in our council jurisdiction. This revenue is used to benefit girls, some of it directly by remaining in the Girl Scout troop treasury and some of it indirectly by subsidizing the cost of providing the Girl Scout program in the area.
“Cookie revenue” helps our council:
- Recruit and train volunteer leaders for each Girl Scout troop.
- 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 prices reflect 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.
Operation Cookie Drop
Operation Cookie Drop is our council’s Gift of Caring project. We have partnered with the Airman Family Readiness center on Tinker AFB to ship a little taste of home to our military service members overseas by sending them Girl Scout cookies purchased by the community. On April 27, Girl Scouts will present Tinker AFB with Operation Cookie Drop cookies. Ask a Girl Scout how you can participate or call the council at (405) 528-GIRL (4475) • (800) 698-0022
