It's Girl Scout Cookie time! New this year, S'more Cookies
Girl Scout Cookie Season is here!
Girl Scouts are accepting cookie orders through door to door sales now through Sunday, Jan. 29, and online through their Digital Cookie websites through Wednesday, March 8.
When girls participate in the Girl Scout Cookie Program, the largest girl-led business in the world, they learn five essential skills, goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics.
2017 commemorates the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts selling cookies and to celebrate Girl Scouts has introduced the new specialty, S'mores Cookie - crunchy graham sandwich cookies with creamy chocolate and marshmallowy filling! It's a new twist on traditional sweet treat.
The specialty S'mores cookie is $5 a box.
Girl Scouts also offer a gluten free cookie, Toffee-tastic, also $5 a box.
Traditional favorites including Thin Mints, Somoas, Do-si-Dos, Trefoils, Savannah Smiles and Tagalongs are all back too and available for $4 a box.
When you purchase Girl Scout Cookies, your dollars help power new and amazing experiences for a Girl Scouts. Whether it's a trip she'll never forget, a service project that will change her community forever, or the opportunity to build a lifetime of memories at camp, Girl Scout Cookies help make it happen!
For more information about the Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois' Cookie Program, Digital Cookie and the Cookie Finder mobile app, go to www.girlscoutsni.org.
The Girl Scout Gift of Caring program is once again available in 2017. Girls may collect donations or "sell" boxes of cookies to be donated to military troops through Operation Care and other organizations.
This is a great way to support a girl's Cookie business and also acknowledge support for our military and other public service personnel including police and fire departments. Last year, more than 42,000 boxes of cookies were donated through the Gift of Caring Program.
We're Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois
We believe every girl can change the world. With us, Girl Scouts develop the independence and confidence to guide their own lives and make the world a better place. We put girls in the driver's seat and encourage them to customize their own experience. And with programs focused on the outdoors, career and interest exploration, travel and the global community, and practical life skills, in addition to community service projects, every girl has the opportunity to unlock her full potential and be amazing!
They serve 16 counties including parts or all of Boone, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Jo Daviess, Kane, Kendall, Lake, LaSalle, Lee, McHenry, Ogle, Stephenson, Whiteside, and Winnebago.
To volunteer, reconnect, donate or join, visit www.girlscoutsni.org or call (844) GSNI-4-ME (844) 476-4463.