PRODUCT SALES

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Cookie Program – A Lasting Investment In Our Community!
The Girl Scout Cookie Program is in full swing! On Friday, Jan. 9, Girl Scouts began participating in goal-setting, money-management and philanthropy activities in the Little Brownie Meeting Kits, making their plans for the proceeds, building their budgets, and, of course taking pre-orders from all their friends, family, neighbors and at their relatives’ offices.

Girls have also embraced the Gift of Caring Cookies from Home community service project. This program is ideal for all those customers who want to support Girl Scouts and our military men and women with a taste of home through Girl Scout Cookies. Girls will take orders for these cookies, collect the money and order them from the council, but do not have to deliver them. The council will order the cookies from Little Brownie Bakers and they will ship to the Support Our Troops organization, who then distributes them to our military men and women serving overseas.

The pre-ordered cookies will be delivered Feb. 19 – 21 to the troop cookie program manager, and the girls will begin delivering their orders to their customers after pick up. Booth sales start Friday, Feb. 27 and run through Sunday, March 22. Each service unit cookie program manager will submit booth locations for the Cookie Booth Locator system, located on the Cookie Program webpage on our website. This system will allow customers to enter a zip code and find a booth in their area!

Most service units will have Mystery Shoppers out and about at the booths during the direct sale time; girls who meet the criteria of a great booth will receive booth patches. Check with your service unit cookie program manager to find out about this program.

Have you visited the cookie program webpage at www.gswcf.org? Check out all the useful resources, meet the cookies, and see all the girl recognitions for the 2009 Cookie Program. Please contact the director of product sales with any questions concerning the cookie program.

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QSP/Nut Fall Sale Program
The QSP/Nut Fall Sale Program concluded in December with more than 5,550 girls participating. The theme of Go Green – Observe and Conserve offered the girls many activities and ideas on how to recycle and reuse. The program activities were also linked to Daisy petals, Brownie Try-its, Junior badges and older girl interest project awards.

New this year was the opportunity to order magazines, music and books online. Girls entered their contacts in the online ordering site and an e-mail was sent to the customers listing all the selections available. More than 2,790 orders were placed online, with the girls and the troops receiving the proceeds and the recognitions from these sales in addition to their traditional catalog orders. Our council is excited about this new and easy way to sell the magazine portion of the program! In additional to the magazines, the girls had 12 varieties of nut and candy products to offer their customers.

Troops retained $129,570 in proceeds from the program, and 229 troops received a bonus gift certificate to the Girl Scout Store for earning more than $200 in total proceeds. The top selling girl from each service unit will receive three tickets to Lowry Park Zoo, a gift certificate to the zoo store and an offer from the council to make a donation to their favorite charity in their name. The names of the top selling girls for each service unit are listed on our website.

The Fall Product Sale Program is an annual fundraiser that benefits the Girl Scouts of West Central Florida in two ways: at the troop level with the girls deciding how they want to spend their proceeds, and at the council level with proceeds supporting our five camp properties, adult training, program activities and the Girl Opportunity Fund.

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E-mail Communications
New! Regularly scheduled e-mail communications will be sent throughout the cookie program. These e-mails will be sent to all girls, leaders and assistant leaders to keep them informed and up-to-date on all the great information available so our cookie program is the absolute best! If you would like to subscribe to these e-mails please click on the button below to update your e-mail preferences and select Cookie News 2009. If you would like to subscribe to these e-mails please click on the button below. You will receive a notice that says you are already on this mailing list, re-enter your e-mail to update your preferences and then select Cookie News 2009.