Local Girl Scouts will begin taking orders for the Cookie Program from Friday, January 8, through Friday, January 29, 2016. This year’s cookie theme is “Worth Sharing.” Customers are encouraged to post a photo of themselves enjoying Girl Scout Cookies on social media with the hashtag #worthsharing. The #worthsharing effort reinforces how proceeds girls earn through cookie sales help them give back to their local areas, through service projects and community action.
Each of seven cookie varieties sells for $4 a box.
- Do-si-dos, a crunchy oatmeal cookie with peanut butter
- Samoas, a vanilla cookie covered with caramel, coconut, and a rich, chocolaty coating
- Tagalongs, a tasty cookie topped with peanut butter and chocolate
- Thin Mints, the thin wafer covered with a smooth chocolaty coating and made with natural peppermint
- Trefoils, a delicate-tasting shortbread
- Savannah Smiles, a cool and crisp lemon wedge cookie
- Rah-Rah Raisins, features whole grain oats, plump juicy raisins, and trendy Greek yogurt-flavored chunks.
Local girls will participate in Digital Cookie 2.0, an upgrade from last year’s Digital Cookie 1.0. This provides a more robust, hands-on, and entertaining learning experience. It includes an enhanced cookie website, as well as new mobile sales technology. Digital Cookie 2.0’s mobile sales app expands girls’ ability to take their sale on the go. Using handheld devices like phones or tablets, Scouts can approach customers, take orders, and complete sales–using digital order forms that allow for direct shipping to customers.
Girls also have the opportunity to give back to their community through the Girl Scout Cookie Program with the Gift of Caring: Cookies for the Military or the Community Gift of Caring. They can choose between offering customers the chance to purchase cookies for members of the military or to purchase cookies for a community organization designated by the troop.
If you’re not approached by a Girl Scout, call 815-962-5591, extension 7172. Your cookie order will be passed on to a local Girl Scout.
Proceeds from the Girl Scout Cookie Program directly benefit girls in Northern Illinois. Each troop receives a portion of proceeds to use for troop activities. The Girl Scout Cookie Program is one of the few youth-oriented programs in the Country, that provides its participants the ability to decide how to direct the proceeds generated through their business activity.