Share your Girl Scout cookie moment on social media
Local Girl Scouts are taking orders for the 2016 Girl Scout Cookie Program through Jan. 29.
The cookie theme is "Worth Sharing," and 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 the proceeds girls earn through the cookie program help them give back to their local areas through service projects and community action.
This year's cookie lineup includes: "Do-si-dos," a crunchy oatmeal cookie with peanut butter; "Samoas," a vanilla cookie covered with caramel, coconut, and chocolate; "Tagalongs" cookies topped with peanut butter and chocolate; "Thin Mints" wafers covered with a chocolate coating and made with natural peppermint; "Trefoils" shortbread cookies; and "Savannah Smiles" lemon wedge cookie. The newest Girl Scout cookie, "Rah-Rah Raisins," makes a return appearance featuring whole grain oats, raisins, and Greek yogurt-flavored chunks. Each cookie variety sells for $4 a box.
Local girls will also be participating in Digital Cookie 2.0, an upgrade from last year's Digital Cookie 1.0, which provides a more robust, hands-on, and entertaining learning experience, including an enhanced cookie website, as well as new mobile sales technology. Digital Cookie 2.0's game-changing addition of a mobile sales app expands girls' ability to take their sale on the go.
Using handheld devices like phones or tablets, girls 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. Girls can choose between offering customers the chance to purchase cookies for members of the military or purchase cookies for a community organization designated by the troop.
If you're not approached by a Girl Scout, you can email cookies4you@girlscoutsni.org, and 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 as funds 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.
The Girl Scouts of Northern Illinois serves girls in 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 or join, visit www.girlscoutsni.org or call (800) 242-5591.