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Cookies for a Cause is Girl Scouts, Hornets’ Nest Council’s cookie donation program, where Girl Scout Cookie customers can donate towards the purchase of a package of cookies that we will donate to our local foodbanks, hometown heroes, and military.

Since 2002 we have donated over 824,000 packages of cookies to worthy causes near and dear to girls’ hearts. Our Cookies for a Cause goal for 2027 is 35,000 packages or roughly 10 packages per selling girl.

Cookies for a Cause Sponsorship Program

Girl Scouts can take their cookie business to new heights by asking companies and individual to partner with them through our Cookies for a Cause Sponsorship Program.  Use the program toolkit to learn more. 

Girls participating in this program by selling 50 packages or more through the Cookies for a Cause Sponsorship form will earn a custom Cookies for a Cause Sponsorship Program Patch.

  • Cookies for a Cause Sponsorship Tool Kit
  • Cookies for a Cause Sponsorship Form

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  • Ask every customer if they would like to buy cookies for our local and abroad heroes or cause champions.
  • For every $6 donation, one package of cookies goes to our heroes and cause champions.
  • While girls collect money, they will not receive the cookies.  Girl Scouts, Hornets’ Nest Council will manage all cookie distribution and packages will not come from the girls’ or troops’ inventory.
  • Girls get full credit towards rewards, plus some special rewards for selling Cookie for a Cause.  Troops receive full proceeds.
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Your Girl Scout troops can request to deliver a portion of the GSHNC donations to a local organization. To submit your troop’s donation delivery request, please complete the GSHNC Cookies for a Cause Delivery Request Form by February 14, 2027. The Council will vet the organization before cookie distribution. Please note that cookies may not be distributed to the troops in a 1:1 proportion of received donations. The cookies do not come from troop inventory but are supplied to the troop by GSHNC.

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Cookies for a Cause Organizations Served

  • 1 Can, Inc 
  • 911 Operators 
  • A Roof Above 
  • Ada Jenkins Center 
  • Albemarle Fire Department 
  • Allen Fire Department 
  • Angels & Sparrows 
  • American Red Cross 
  • Atrium Health - Stanly 
  • Atrium Health Waxhaw Emergency Dept 
  • Atrium Pineville 3rd shift ED 
  • Atrium Union West 
  • Bags of Hope 
  • Ballantyne Campus Food Pantry 
  • Ballantyne Families Helping Neighbors in Need 
  • Bee Mighty 
  • Bethel Men's Shelter 
  • Brookdale Weddington Park 
  • Butterfly House 
  • Cabarrus County Schools and Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools Bus Drivers 
  • Carolina Breast Friends 
  • Center of Hope - Women and Children 
  • Charlotte Fire Department, Station 16 
  • Charlotte Rescue Mission 
  • City of Albemarle Police Department 
  • Clover Area Assistance Center 
  • Combat Female Veterans Families United 
  • Community Table & Inn 
  • Concord Fire Department - Marshal's Office 
  • Concord Fire Station Number 9 
  • Congregations for Kids 
  • Cooperative Christian Ministries 
  • CVAN Battered Women's Shelter 
  • Davidson K8 School 
  • Defend the Fatherless 
  • Do Greater Charlotte 
  • Dorothy Day Soup Kitchen - Rock Hill 
  • Emergency Room Staff at Novant Main 
  • Esther's Heart of Cabarrus County 
  • Fire Department Ladder 32 
  • Fire/police departments in Steele Creek 
  • Friends of Hampton B. Allen Library 
  • Georgeville Fire Department 
  • Grace AMEZ Church 
  • Harris Road Middle School 
  • Harrisburg Emergency Department 
  • Hawk Ridge Elementary 
  • Hemby Bridge Fire Department 
  • Hope Street Food Pantry 
  • Jamil Niner Food Pantry 
  • Jay M Robinson Middle School 
  • Karson's Kompassion Project 
  • Levine Children’s Hospital 
  • Locust Elementary School 
  • Locust Police Department 
  • Mitchell's House 
  • Moms Making Moves 
  • Multiply Church Food Pantry 
  • National Guard Base - Stanly County (Albemarle) 
  • NC Packs 4 Patriots 
  • New Covenant TRIO Upward Bound Math and Science 
  • New London Fire Department 
  • Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Foundation 
  • Oakboro Fire Department 
  • Oakboro Police Department 
  • Pineville Neighbors Place 
  • Present Age Ministries 
  • Promise Youth Development 
  • Ralph McSwain Detention Center 
  • Ridgecrest Fire Department 
  • Rock Hill Community Fridge 
  • Ronald McDonald House of Charlotte 
  • Safe Passage 
  • Salisbury, Faith and Granite Quarry Police and Fire 
  • Saving Southern Kitties 
  • Second Harvest Food Bank 
  • Shining Hope Farm 
  • Smithville Community Coalition 
  • South Charlotte VA Clinic 
  • St. Giles Presbyterian Church 
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  • Sunrise Senior Living on Providence 
  • The Laurels and The Haven in Highland Creek 
  • The Sandbox 
  • Turning Point NC 
  • Union Co Fire Department 
  • Union County Community Center 
  • University Soup Kitchen 
  • USO of North Carolina 
  • VA Salisbury 
  • Walter Bickett Elementary School 
  • Waxhaw Police 
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