Cookie Resources
Having a fun and successful Girl Scout Cookie season is a wonderful opportunity for girls to learn exciting new skills that will benefit them throughout their lives. With the proper preparation and planning, the 2012 Cookie season will be your most successful one yet. Begin to think about the following items as you develop your winning strategies for the 2012 Cookie Program:
• Council sites
• Ordering your cookies
• Promoting the Cookie program to local businesses
Girl Scout Cookie Program Information and Updates
Cookie Locator App
FREE mobile app will help customers find Girl Scout Cookies! Cookie customers can now download a free mobile app on their iPhones or Android devices and find local cookie sales. It’s all part of an exciting new pilot program in our council offered by Little Brownie Bakers.
The free Cookie Locator mobile app will let customers:
- Search for sales by neighborhood and even map their way
- Get details on their favorite Girl Scout Cookies
- Find their true “cookie personalities” and share with friends on Facebook, Twitter and email
To download this FREE app:
Simply call **GSCOOKIES (**472665437) from your mobile phone. It will also be available in the iPhone App Store and the Android Market Place.
Special Promotion with Chicago Zoological society
A partnership between Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana and the Chicago Zoological Society, which manages Brookfield Zoo, encourages people to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting, help girls reach their cookie goals and learn the facts about sustainable palm oil use, as well as other viable environmental practices.
Customers who support the Girl Scout Cookie program in 2012 will receive one FREE child's admission at Brookfield Zoo per paid adult admission when they bring five empty boxes of Girl Scout Cookies for recycling at Brookfield Zoo through Dec. 31, 2012.
This year Girl Scouts can learn about Girl Scouting's national commitment to ensuring its two licensed bakers use as little palm oil as possible, join the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and exclusively source palm oil from members of the RSPO, an organization striving to developing and following best practices to ensure sustainability.
Tools to help promote this wonderful opportunity for a FREE child's ticket during site sales this year:
- Press release describing partnership
- Sheet of label-sized stickers for boxes (use with standard mailing label sticker sheets)
- Sheet of thank-you cards describing partnership
- Helpful tips and talking points about sustainable palm oil use
general Forms and Resources to support cookie program
- Service Unit Cookie Manager Training - Webinar
- Troop Cookie Manager Training - Webinar
- 2012 Service Unit Cookie Program Guide
- 2012 Troop Cookie Program Guide
- Cookie Program Girl Permission Form
- Cookie Program Girl Permission Form - Spanish
- 2012 Cupboard Schedule
- Volunteer Application
- Third Annual Girl Scout Cookie Kickoff Rally
- 2012 Service Unit Cookie Program Manager Training Schedule
- Gift Of Caring
- Goal Getter Order Card
- My Sales Approvals
- Cookie Booth Etiquette
- Individual Collections Form
- Troop Manager Training Sign-In Sheet
- Troop Collections Form
- Trailer Drive Through ID Card
- Service Unit Delivery Station Request Form
- Service Unit eBudde Quick Instruction Guide
- Troop eBudde Quick Instruction Guide
- Troop Cookie Manager: Statement of Responsibility
- Service Unit Manager: Statement of Responsibility
- Facilitating Adult Learning Guide
- 2012 Commitment to Participate in Loop Site Sales (Deadline extended to Jan. 31)
- Cookie Calculator for 2012
- Incentive Re-Order Form
- Girl Scout Position Statements Regarding Faith and Social Issues
