Girl Scouts Learn Business Skills by Selling Cookies-It’s Girl Scout Cookie Time!


 

 

 HEART OF NEW JERSEY- Girl Scouts residing inthe western area of the Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey sac femme pas cherCouncil areputting their entrepreneurial and leadership skills into practice. It’s time toenjoy one of the greatest indulgences – Girl Scout Cookies?. Thousands of areaGirl Scouts, ages five through seventeen, began taking orders for Girl ScoutCookies? on October 1 and will continue through November 29. They will also beconducting cookie booth sales throughout the region at local businesses throughDecember 19. Entrepreneurial Girl Scout Troops are making it even moreconvenient sac femmeto fulfill yourGirl Scout cookie craving this cookie season by arranging new locales for theircookie booth sales; including at Bridewater Commons Mall and New Jersey TransitStations all along the Raritan Valley and Gladstone Lines, in addition to theirtraditional locales such as Dunkin Donuts, Shop Rite, and Quick CheckLocations.  Be sure to check the GirlScouts Heart of New Jersey Council website at www.gshnj.org for sac femmesadditional boothsale listings and detailed information about specific sale times and locations.The cookies are $4.00 a boxand all proceeds from the cookie sale stay in our community to provide GirlScouting opportunities for the entire Heart of New Jersey region, whichincludes: Hudson, Essex, Union, sac marron cuirSomerset, Hunterdon, southern Warren and parts ofMiddlesex counties.

 

GirlScout Cookies? had their earliest beginnings in the kitchens and ovens of ourgirl members, with mothers volunteering as technical advisers. The sale ofcookies as a way to finance troop activities began as early as 1917, five yearsafter Juliette Gordon Low started Girl Scouting in the United States.The earliest mention of a cookie sale found to date was that of the MistletoeTroop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, which baked cookies and sold themin its high school cafeteria as a service project sac marronin December1917.  There are eight varieties ofcookies: Tagalongs, Do-Si-Dos, Samoas, ThinMints, Trefoils, Lemon Chalet Cremes, Dulce de Leche and Thank U Berry Munch.All cookies are kosher and have 0 trans fats per serving.

The cookiesale program allows girls to gain important financial literacy skills and honetheir personal leadership style. The girls develop business acumen by settinggoals, managing resources and marketing product.

Historically,the cookie sale has been an magasin de sacentrepreneurialenterprise for many of the Girl Scouts. The top individual seller within the Girl Scouts Heart of New JerseyCouncil have in the past sold close to 2,000 boxes on an individual level.  Both individuals and troops earn rewardsbased on the level of cookie sales reached.

Philanthropyand community service are also integral aspects of the program as girls can askcustomers, through The Gift of Caring Community Service Project, to   purchase and donate additional prix sac a mainboxes of cookiesfor a charity chosen by the troop.

Sellingcookies is a major fundraiser for Girl Scout councils. Nearly 80 percent of themoney stays within the local council and the remaining 20 percent goes to thebakery. Funds received by the council are used for activities and services, andeach troop receives the remaining funds, about 12 percent of the amount thatthey sell, for unique sac en cuirprogramming at thelocal troop level. This money goes directly into its treasury, and the girlsvote to determine how it should be spent. Selling Girl Scout Cookies? is animportant part of the scouting experience. The girls learn goal-setting, moneymanagement and teamwork skills by participating in this program.?

GirlScouts Heart wholesale jordanshoes ofNew Jerseybuilds girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a betterplace. mln

 

Par single le lundi 29 novembre 2010

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