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COOKIES....INFORMATION FOR LEADERS

ALSO SEE ABOUT COOKIES WEB PAGE
 

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

Jan. 6  Start Date

Feb. 16-23 Cookies being delivered

Feb. 24 - Mar. 11  Booth Sales

 

I know some of you are getting calls about the councils around us still selling cookies for $3.50/box.  For reference here are the talking points we sent out before when the board approved the increase. 

 The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest girl-led business in the country and generates immeasurable benefits for girls, and their council and community. Girls set cookie goals to support their chosen activities for the year, to fund community service and leadership projects, to attend summer camp, to travel to destinations near and far and to provide events for girls in their community.

Just as our daily living costs increase, so does the cost of providing the Girl Scouts’ unique leadership development program to our girls. To help offset rising costs of our cookies from Little Brownie Bakers, and to be able to provide quality programming, Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania has approved an increase in cookie prices.

 ·         Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania has increased the price of cookies by $.50 to $4 per box.

·         The troops will directly benefit by now receiving an additional $.10 per box, for a minimum total of $.70 per box. 

·         Cookie prices have not increased for six years for the majority of our council’s membership and it will be four years since any legacy council increased their cookie price.

·         By 2011, 31 of the 75 councils served by Little Brownie Bakers had priced their cookies at $4. In 2012, we are expecting that number will increase significantly.  

·         All of the proceeds from the cookie program stay in western Pennsylvania to serve thousands of girls and adult volunteers, helping make Girl Scouts one of the most affordable yet personally enriching activities a girl can choose. 

·         The activity of selling cookies is directly related to our purpose of helping all girls realize their full potential and presents an effective opportunity to develop essential financial literacy.

 Let me know if you have any questions. 

Shelby Miller, Director of Retail and Product Sales

Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania

612 Locust Street, Johnstown, PA  15901

T 814-536-5371 ext. 1211; F 814-536-5373

www.gswpa.org

 

NOTE:  If you find that you need to register your cookie mom….

            Leaders please register your moms through the online and reimburse yourself.  Please do not let the mom do it themselves as this will cause them to be placed just in the service unit and then they will need transferred into your troop.

            Register them during business hours in case your 01 code has been reset to 14.  This has happened to several leaders already.  The help desk is able to fix this easily.

            Please forward to Jenn McNany – name/address/phone/email to add to our listing.  This helps Jenn to watch for your registrations to come through.

            Please print a receipt for your cookie mom as proof of registration for Jean, especially if it is in the week prior to the cookie meeting start-up.
 

CLARIFICATION ON GIRL SCOUT VOLUNTEERS AND PAPERWORK NECESSARY!  Look for all forms under the leader section

1.)    Any adult that registers (pays $12.00 registration or membership dues) is only a member of GSUSA.  Just because they register that does NOT make them a volunteer it makes them a member and they are insured by GSUSA nothing else.

2.)    A Girl Scout volunteer is some one who is supervising girls, handling money, handling product sales, acting as a driver, chaperone or first aider.

a.       Therefore cookie moms must become a Girl Scout Volunteer.

b.      There is a chart in your Volunteer Essentials manual on page 105 outline who should complete a volunteer application.

3.)    In order to become a Girl Scout Volunteer you must complete the volunteer application process, This process is outline on page 104 of your Volunteer Essentials Manual! 

a.       Part of this process requires the participant (cookie mom) to be interviewed.  You will not become a volunteer unless you are interviewed.

b.      Volunteers must be members!

4.)    Once a participant is cleared, then they become a Volunteer and they complete the volunteer agreement.

 

  • “Grandfathered” volunteers, are now a thing of the past.  Your three years are up, if you are told by a staff member you need to complete the application process, you should do so. 

  • The Application process has been around since we merged which included the interview.  In the beginning the interview was not as formal as it has become.  As of last year it is required that the interview be filed with the application for every volunteer in the Volunteer Development Department. 

  • Leaders and Assistant Leaders should be interviewed by the Coach, Service Unit Manager or your Membership Staff (preferably, In that particular order, unless you are recruited by the membership staff).

  • Troop committee members need to interviewed by the Troop Leader.  They are your volunteers, and they help you with the troop, they are the cookie moms, magnut moms, chaperone, drivers, treasurers, extra hands at meetings, substitute leaders, etc.  You need to interview them to see how they can best help you and if you can work with them