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Overview of the Girl Scout Cookie Activity
What’s inside a box of Girl Scout Cookies? Yes, you will find your favorite tasty treats, but a box of Girl Scout Cookies represents a lot more than the cookies themselves! When someone purchases a box of cookies, they support local Girl Scout troop and council activities, as well as help girls gain valuable skills that they will use all of their lives. In fact, since 1933, the Girl Scout Cookie Activity has become a famous annual event that has helped build girls’ self-confidence and help them develop their own personal leadership style.
The Girl Scout Cookie Activity helps girls, ages 5 to 18, learn to set goals, communicate, manage money, work as a team, plan a strategy to achieve goals, and make and stick to a budget. Many of today’s successful women have credited their business skills to this program, making it the premier business and economic literacy training program for girls in the United States.
The 2009 Cookie Activity is over. Look back on this page in January 2010 for more information about the 2010 Cookie Activity.
Girl Scout Cookie Resources: If you are a Girl Scout, volunteer or parent and are looking for resources to finish up the 2009 Cookie Activity, click here.
Colorado Girl Scouts donate 111,000 boxes of cookies to their Hometown Heroes
Girl Scouts across the state kept their Hometown Heroes top of mind as they sold Girl Scout Cookies during the 2009 season. Nearly 111,000 boxes of cookies were donated to men and women the girls view as heroes. Cookies were donated to military personnel, firefighters, medical center staff, food banks and others across the state. Through the Gift of Caring/Hometown Heroes program, girls learn about the invaluable work of their recipients by taking tours, learning about careers in public service and helping with community service projects.
Heroes express their thanks!
Each year as organizations receive donated cookies from Girl Scouts in Colorado, they send letters of thanks. One of those touching letters from this year's cookie activity came from a staff sergeant stationed in Afghanistan:
"We received the two boxes of Girl Scout Cookies...We appreciate the support. America, and the world, is divided when it comes to the war on terrorism. It's good to know that at least the soldiers are being thought of and supported. Your gift reminded me of a quote I read once. 'No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.' You guys did not just give us a box of cookies. In that box were also some many thanks, a sense of being appreciated and a sense of purpose. Like your leaders and mentors, I have people to take care of here, my soldiers. Sometimes I hear them say to each other 'Why are we here?' Sometimes it is hard to find the words to give them an answer. Sometimes they get their answer in a box of cookies."
The peanut butter in Girl Scout Cookies is safe
LOUISVILLE, KY — We, Little Brownie Bakers, want to assure all of our loyal Girl Scout Cookie customers that the peanut butter used in Tagalongs® and Do-Si-Dos® cookie products is not sourced from Peanut Corporation of America, the supplier recently implicated by the FDA in their ongoing investigation of a Salmonella outbreak.
Food safety is of the utmost importance to us. We have and continue to work closely with all of our ingredient suppliers to ensure that they continue to exceed food industry operating standards as part of our goal to bake safe, great tasting Girl Scout Cookies. In addition to our expectations of ingredient suppliers, our suppliers are subject to rigorous food safety audits from independent third party auditors. Our peanut butter supplier, Algood Food Company from Louisville, Ky., has a history of excellent audit results.
We appreciate the trust you have placed in us as well as your support of the Girl Scouts® in your community. For more information, please visit our Web site.
Thin Mint Cookies in Colorado contain kosher symbol on packaging
The New York Times and Denver Post recently reported that there was an error in proofreading, resulting in the kosher symbol being left off of ABC Bakers’ Thin Mint variety Girl Scout Cookie packages. ABC Bakers does not supply Girl Scouts of Colorado’s cookies. Our cookie bakery is Little Brownie Bakers. Please be assured that the kosher symbol has not been left off of the Little Brownie Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookie packages. All Girl Scout Cookies sold by Girl Scouts in Colorado are kosher.
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