NEWARK, DELAWARE (1/7/2015) One of the best-known nonprofit fundraising drives is about to get underway.
The Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay, which includes 9,000 scouts in Delaware and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, will start knocking on doors Saturday as well as selling cookies online.
This year the scouts are selling eight cookie varieties, with two new selections: Rah-Rah Raisin made with whole grain oats, raisins and Greek yogurt chunks, and Toffee-tastic gluten-free cookies with toffee bits and a rich, buttery cookie taste.
Returning cookies are Thin Mints, Samoas, Do-si-dos, Tagalongs, Trefoils and Savannah Smiles. Price is $4 a box, except $5 for Toffee-tastic, which is available in limited amounts.
The sales program is designed to teach the scouts goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics.
Council officials say the Digitial Cookie sales will teach girls new skills in online marketing, application use and e-commerce, using dashboards to track their sales and goals. Local scouts will maintain their own protected, personalized websites to market to consumers, accept orders via credit card and activate cookie shipments directly to customers. Girl Scouts participating will send invitations to selected customers to visit their cookie websites.
In addition to this week’s door-to-door sales, cookie booth sales begin Friday, Feb. 13, at local businesses throughout the Delmarva Peninsula. Cookie sales end March 8.
Girls also will take donations for Operation Taste of Home, sending those cookies to our armed forces and local agencies such as food banks and pantries, blood banks, cancer centers and youth programs.
For more information, call 800-YUM-YUM2. To locate a cookie booth sale, go to www.girlscoutcookies.org.
Cookie revenue from annual sales of more than a million cookies by the Girl Scouts of Chesapeake Bay is used to benefit local troop treasuries and fund council-led programs.
To learn more about Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay, visit www.GSCB.org or call 800-341-4007 or 800-374-9811.