COOKIE PROGRAM TROOP # SERVICE UNIT # FAMILY GUIDE JANUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 28 KEY DATES DECEMBER 11 Digital Cookie Launches & Order Taking Begins JANUARY 15 Cookie Program Begins JANUARY 15 – FEBRUARY 28 My Family Booth Sales JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 28 My Troop Booth Sales & Council Organized Booth Sales FEBRUARY 28 Cookie Program Ends & Wrap Up Begins MAY 31 Last Day Cookies May Be Sold QUESTIONS? Contact Your Troop Cookie Manager (TCM) NAME PHONE EMAIL PAYMENT DATES: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH Dear Girl Scout Family, TABLE OF CONTENTS This Girl Scout Cookie Season, we are celebrating 3 What Is the Cookie Program? the spirit and creativity of all Girl Scouts as they sell 4 Meet the Cookies America’s favorite treats with a “We’ve Got This!” 5 Why Participate? attitude. 6 What She Will Learn To make supporting her even easier, we’re 7 Cookie Badges & Pins introducing our new and improved Family Guide. 8 How to Sell Cookies Please refer to this resource throughout the cookie season for useful information, tips, and tools that 9 Launching Her Digital Cookie Site will help you and your Girl Scout have an exciting and successful cookie season! 10 Signing Up To Participate 11 Cookie Parent Permission The Girl Scout Cookie Program is a council-sponsored Form money-earning opportunity that enables troops to 12 Important Things to Know earn funds toward exciting and educational activities 13 Girl & Parent/Caregiver as well as community projects. It also allows family Checklist and friends the opportunity to support their Girl Scout’s troop and Girl Scouting in your community. 14 Safety Guidelines This time honored tradition not only shapes the 15 Cookie Booth Etiquette entrepreneurial spirit, it also builds girls of courage, 16 Help Her Succeed confidence, and character. 17 Goal Setting Worksheet We know your participation in the Cookie Program is 18 Cookie Program Patches an investment of your time and we appreciate all that 19 Cookie Program Rewards you do to encourage your Girl Scout. 20 Mascot Fun Facts With Lots of Cookie Love, 22 More Girl Activities! Your Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Product Sales Team GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS ABC Bakery: ABC is one of two bakers GSE: Girl Scout Entrepreneur. A new OFR: Outstanding Funds Report (OFR) is a Safety Wise: An adult designated as that is licensed by GSUSA to provide Girl program exclusively for girls who participate form that is completed when a Girl Scout having the responsibility for ensuring Scout Cookies. GSNETX partners with in the GSNETX Product Sales Programs. and her family have an unpaid cookie the safety and wellness of Girl Scouts, LBB. balance at the conclusion of the Cookie individually or collectively, while they GSNETX: Girl Scouts of Northeast Texas Program which will impact girl rewards. participate in Girl Scout activities. C2S/CC: Community Cookie (formerly This form is submitted by the TCM. Safety-Wise adults must have a current known as Care 2 Share). Monetary GSUSA: Girl Scouts of the USA Girl Scout membership and an eligible donations given to girls and/or troops to PGA: Per Girl Average. Total number of background check on file. donate packages to military personnel, IO: Initial Pre-Season Order. The number cookies assigned to the troop divided by first responders, and/or essential of cookie packages, broken out by flavor, the number of girls selling. A girl is selling if SU: Service Units support troops in their personnel. The packages donated that you want to begin cookie season with. she has one or more packages assigned to local communities and is comprised of a come from GSNETX inventory, not troop This order is submitted to your TCM prior to her in eBudde. team of volunteers who serve as the first inventory. 12/1/2020. point of contact for troops and volunteers PGL: Program Grade Level. Daisies (K & in their area. DOC: Digital Cookie is an online platform LBB: Little Brownie Bakers is the company 1st), Brownies (2nd & 3rd), Juniors (4th & that helps girls run and manage their Girl that GSNETX partners with to bake all of our 5th), Cadettes (6th-8th), Seniors (9th & SU CPC: Service Unit Cookie Program Scout Cookie business online. tasty cookies. 10th), and Ambassadors (11th & 12th) Coordinator eBudde: online cookie software system My GS: A tool located online at gsnetx.org PPF: Parent Permission Form, submitted TCM: Troop Cookie Manager that TCMs use to manage the Cookie that is used to renew membership, update by the parent/guardian of a Girl Scout to Program for their troop(s). your contact information, and make sure allow participation in the Girl Scout Cookie TL: Troop Leader we have the correct information about all of Program. your Girl Scout volunteer roles. 2 2021 COOKIE PROGRAM FAMILY GUIDE WHAT IS THE COOKIE PROGRAM? 2020 STATS 1,500+ of Troops selling The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girl-led entrepreneurial program in the world. When Girls 230+ participate in the Cookie Program, they build essential skills as they begin to think like entrepreneurs, help Per Girl Average (PGA) their troop earn proceeds to fund their Girl Scout adventures, and earn personal rewards! 13,800+ # of Girls Selling SEE PAGE 8 FOR $1,500+ MORE DETAILS. Average Troop Proceeds 2020-2021 Girl Scout Membership 72,500+ 2020-2021 Cookie Program Parent Permission Form (PPF) Packages Donated Connect with your Troop Cookie Manager 101K+ Initial Pre-Season Orders (IOs) are due from troops to GSNETX on 12/1/20. It is important that you Patches, Rewards & connect with your TCM to place your order Experiences Earned prior to this date in order for your Girl Scout to be eligible for Initial Pre-Season Order rewards. 3.24M+ Girl Scout/Parent/Guardian Checklist Packages Sold 2021 COOKIE PROGRAM FAMILY GUIDE 3 WHY PARTICIPATE? ALL OUR COOKIES HAVE... No High-Fructose Corn Syrup No Partially Hydrogenated Oils (PHOs) Crisp wafers covered Crunchy oatmeal • Made with • Made with Zero Grams Trans Fat per Serving in chocolaty coating Vegan Ingredients sandwich cookies with Natural Flavors made with natural oil of creamy peanut butter RSPO Certified (Mass Balance) Palm Oil • 100% Real Cocoa • Real Peanut Butter peppermint filling NEW! Halal Certification • Whole Grain Oats Crispy lemon cookies Crisp cookies coated in Delicate-tasting shortbread • 100% Real Cocoa • Made with baked with inspiring • Naturally flavored caramel, sprinkled that is delightfully simple with other natural • Real Coconut Natural Flavors messages to lift your flavors with toasted coconut and satisfying spirits and striped with dark chocolaty coating specialty specialty innovation innovation Crispy cookies layered Crunchy graham Rich, buttery cookies • Made with • Gluten Free with peanut butter • 100% Real Cocoa sandwich cookies with Natural Flavors with sweet, crunchy and covered with a creamy chocolate and toffee bits • No Artificial • Real Peanut Butter • 100% Real Cocoa Flavors chocolaty coating marshmallowy filling LOCAL RESTRICTIONS • Girls may only sell LBB cookies and • GSNETX covers 32 counties beginning • GS-TOP (Girl Scouts of Texas • Girls may not trade or buy cookies to only for the prices set by GSNETX. north of Waco extending to the Oklahoma Plains) borders GSNETX. resell from another council, including Selling these cookies for any other Oklahoma state line and from Irving to Our Girl Scouts are not allowed to sell cookies from ABC Bakers. If you have price is strictly prohibited. the Louisiana border. Girl Scouts may in their council service area. questions, please see your TCM for only sell cookies within these counties. clarification. For a list of specific counties, visit gsnetx.org. In addition to being Kosher certified, all Girl Scout Cookies® baked by Little Brownie have achieved Halal certification from the Islamic Food and Nutrition Council of America, demonstrating our commitment to developing cookie products that serve the needs of a wider segment of cookie buyers. 4 2021 COOKIE PROGRAM FAMILY GUIDE WHY PARTICIPATE? The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the primary WHERE DOES source of funding for troops to power their THE MONEY GO? Girl Scout experience. The funds earned in the 18% SU / Troop / Girl Cookie Program become property of the troop SU & Troop Proceeds, Girl Rewards, etc. as a whole, and the girls in the troop should 25% Cookie Program & Vendor Costs take the lead, together, in deciding how these Cost of Cookies, Warehouses, Trucks, etc. funds are used. When girls have an active role 57% Girl Scout Services in setting up a troop budget, voting on activities Customer Service & Support they want to do, and beyond, they are more Camp Programming & Facilities confident and develop skills that will last a Girl Scout Leadership Experience 100% OF lifetime. Member & Volunteer PROCEEDS Support STAYS LOCAL Girls also have the opportunity to earn a variety of rewards through their participation in the Cookie Program. Whether she's interested in earning a resident camp session at her favorite GSNETX camp property or this years' plush mascot, there's something for every girl! 2021 COOKIE FLAVOR VARIETY MIX Lemon-Ups Trefoils Do-si-dos Samoas Tagalongs Thin Mints Girl Scout Toffee-tastic 10% 9% 9% 22% 14% 26% S'mores 3% 7% troop proceeds rewards Troops earn base proceeds of $0.67 for each Girls can earn rewards, including package of cookies their Girl Scouts sell. items, patches and invitations Depending on how the girls choose to participate to exclusive events for reaching and at what level they sell, the troop can earn certain package levels. Most several additional proceeds tiers, on top of the rewards are cumulative, meaning base proceeds. All proceeds become property of they receive all of the items up SEE THE the troop, not individual girls, and can be used to to the highest level they reach.