Girl Scout Cookie Program

One day in 1932, two Girl Scouts – Virginia Marley and Midge Meyer – were baking cookies in the Philadelphia Gas & Electric Company’s window as part of a community fundraising campaign for local daycare nurseries. The legend is that passers-by asked to buy the cookies that the girls were making, and that is one story of how the Girl Scout Cookie Program activity started.

Girl Scout Safety-Wise Update

GIRL SCOUT PROGRAM STANDARDS
Related to Girl Scout Product Sale Activities

The Girl Scout Cookie Program:

• Is the nation’s premier business entrepreneurial program for girls
• Teaches girls basic financial literacy skills, including the development of goals and budgets and the implementation of a plan
• Provides valuable career exploration and business training for girls
• Many of today’s successful business women made their first-ever sales presentation while selling Girl Scout Cookies and attribute their business know-how and success to their participation in the annual Cookie Program.

The Cookie Program is designed to help Girl Scouts everywhere Discover, Connect and Take Action – in the Girl Scout leadership development program and Girl Scouts’ lives.

Through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, girls across the country and around the world learn skills they can use now and in the future.

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Who To Contact

Contact Darlene Harris, Director of Product Sales at dharris@gswcf.org, 813-281-4474 ext. 1838 or 800-881-4475 to find out when and where cookies will be sold.

For the safety and security of the girls who are selling cookies, Girl Scout Cookies are not available for purchase online.

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Important Cookie Links

Frequently Asked Cookie Questions
girlscoutcookies.org
Little Brownie Bakers

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Cookie History

Girl Scout Cookies® had their earliest beginnings in the kitchens and ovens of our girl members, with mothers volunteering as technical advisers. The sale of cookies as a way to finance troop activities began as early as 1917, five years after Juliette Gordon Low started Girl Scouting in the United States. The earliest mention of a cookie sale found to date was that of the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, which baked cookies and sold them in its high school cafeteria as a service project in December 1917.

Please click here to read the whole story.

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Meet The Cookies!

It’s been 90 years since Girl Scouts® began selling home-baked cookies to raise money. The idea was so popular that in 1936, Girl Scouts of the USA enlisted bakers to handle the growing demand. Since then, selling Girl Scout Cookies® has become a successful way to help girls develop important leadership skills and earn money for activities. So meet the Cookies today!