Cookie Sale Program - Gift of Caring

There are three ways to participate in Gift of Caring:

• One Organization: The troop chooses an organization in their community that they would like to support with packages of donated Girl Scout Cookies (senior centers, women’s and children’s shelters, local food pantries, etc.).
• Hometown Heroes: The troop decides to recognize their own “Hometown Heroes” – women and men working to support their community as firefighters, EMTs, police officers, etc.
• Operation Cookie: The troop decides to send their donated cookies to our servicewomen and servicemen in military service all over the world.

While order taking, Girl Scouts ask their customers if they would like to purchase an additional package of cookies to be donated to the Gift of Caring organization that the troop has chosen. Girls explain that this is a Girl Scout Community Service Project. It is also a great way for customers who, due to dietary or other reasons, do not wish to bring a box of cookies home, but would still like to support the Girl Scouts.

If the customer has only purchased cookies for Gift of Caring, this is the only time where girls will collect money when taking the order, because there will be no delivery. If the same customer has ordered both cookies for Gift of Caring and for themselves, you may collect the payment for all the cookies at the time of delivery.

Troops should also promote their Gift of Caring project at booth sales.

Each troop will deliver the Gift of Caring cookies to their chosen organization or to their Hometown Heroes, or bring them to a Girl Scout Service Center to be sent to Operation Cookie.

Operation Cookie

Thanks to donations from our customers, veterans’ and fraternal organizations, and Girl Scout troops, Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains loaded more than 1,000 cases of Girl Scout Cookies at Bedford headquarters onto a moving van bound for Pease Air National Guard Base in Portsmouth, NH. Through the Family Readiness Program at Pease ANGB, cookies will be distributed to servicemen and women here and abroad.

Every year since the Persian Gulf War, the New Hampshire Air National Guard’s family support program has made it possible to deliver a “taste of home” to our military forces. The April 18 delivery by Able Moving and Storage of Amherst, NH, which donates its truck, fuel and a crew each year, is more than 12,000 individual boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Many donors including veterans’ groups and Girl Scouts wrote cards and letters and sent them with the boxes.

This year Girl Scouts in Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains, serving New Hampshire and Vermont, sold 1,579,514 packages of Girl Scout Cookies. All of the proceeds support local Girl Scouts.