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What Can A Cookie Buy?

The Experience of a Lifetime!

The Girl Scout Cookie Program is much more than a fundraiser, it is the largest girl-led business in the country and generates immeasurable benefits for girls, their local Girl Scout offices and communities nationwide. This hands-on financial literacy program provides girls with a means to enhance their public speaking skills, work in collaborative groups, set goals and map out a plan to achieve them. They also have a chance to connect with their community, build self-confidence and most importantly fuel their imaginations – all while having FUN! Selling Girl Scout cookies provides an important ingredient for leadership by helping girls develop five key skills:

1. Goal Setting: Girls set cookie sales goals and, with their team, create a plan to reach them.
2. Decision Making: Girls decide where and when to sell cookies, how to market their sale, and what to do with their earnings.
3. Money Management: Girls develop a budget, take cookie orders, and handle customers’ money.
4. People Skills: Girls learn how to talk (and listen!) to their customers, as well as learning how to work as a team with other girls.
5. Business Ethics: Girls act honestly and responsibly during every step of the cookie sale.

All of the proceeds generated from cookie activities stay in our local Girl Scout council to support girls in middle Tennessee. When people purchase a package of cookies, they’re investing in their community by investing in Girl Scouts.