Girl Scout Cookie Program It's About the Girls - Not the Cookies
01.04.2010
Every year, thousands of girls across the area gain valuable knowledge while providing the community with a special treat - Girl Scout cookies. This year will be no exception.
The Girl Scout Cookie Program, an integral part of Girl Scouting's Business and Economic Literacy initiative for girls ages 5 - 17, provides finance, marketing, and public speaking skills, along with valuable experiences that build girls' self-confidence and help them develop their own personal leadership style.
Locally, girls will begin to sell Girl Scout cookies door to door beginning on January 1st and in front of local businesses from February 12th-March 12th . All varieties of Girl Scout cookies contain zero grams trans fat per serving. In addition to the returning favorites (Thin Mints, Samoas, Do Si Dos, Trefoils, Lemon Chalet Cremes, Tagalongs and Dulce de Leche), there is one new cookie in the line-up this year. Thank U Berry Munch is a crispy rice cookie with real, premium cranberries, sweetened with white fudge chips.
Through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, girls manage inventory, set goals, learn money management, and develop marketing skills. Essentially, the girls run their own business. The entire troop sets a goal and follows a plan leading toward that goal. Girl Scout troops use funds from the cookie activity to fund a service project or to plan for an exciting trip. Many successful women have credited their business skills to the Girl Scout Cookie Program, making it the premier business and economic literacy program for girls in the United States.
For more information on how to purchase cookies for yourself or as community service for our military through the Cookies for the Troops program, please visit our website after January 1st at www.hngirlscouts.org or call 704-731-6500.
Girl Scouts, Hornets' Nest Council serves more than 15,000 girls with the help of 5,000 adult volunteers throughout Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Rowan, Stanly, Union, and York (SC) counties.
Contact: Katherine Lambert
Phone: 704-731-6536
Email: klambert@hngirlscouts.org
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The Girl Scout Cookie Program, an integral part of Girl Scouting's Business and Economic Literacy initiative for girls ages 5 - 17, provides finance, marketing, and public speaking skills, along with valuable experiences that build girls' self-confidence and help them develop their own personal leadership style.
Locally, girls will begin to sell Girl Scout cookies door to door beginning on January 1st and in front of local businesses from February 12th-March 12th . All varieties of Girl Scout cookies contain zero grams trans fat per serving. In addition to the returning favorites (Thin Mints, Samoas, Do Si Dos, Trefoils, Lemon Chalet Cremes, Tagalongs and Dulce de Leche), there is one new cookie in the line-up this year. Thank U Berry Munch is a crispy rice cookie with real, premium cranberries, sweetened with white fudge chips.
Through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, girls manage inventory, set goals, learn money management, and develop marketing skills. Essentially, the girls run their own business. The entire troop sets a goal and follows a plan leading toward that goal. Girl Scout troops use funds from the cookie activity to fund a service project or to plan for an exciting trip. Many successful women have credited their business skills to the Girl Scout Cookie Program, making it the premier business and economic literacy program for girls in the United States.
For more information on how to purchase cookies for yourself or as community service for our military through the Cookies for the Troops program, please visit our website after January 1st at www.hngirlscouts.org or call 704-731-6500.
Girl Scouts, Hornets' Nest Council serves more than 15,000 girls with the help of 5,000 adult volunteers throughout Anson, Cabarrus, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Rowan, Stanly, Union, and York (SC) counties.
Contact: Katherine Lambert
Phone: 704-731-6536
Email: klambert@hngirlscouts.org
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