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NEW YORK (January 9, 2024)—Today, Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA), the largest girl-led organization in the world, announced the launch of the 2024 national Girl Scout Cookie™ season. During this highly-anticipated time of the year, girls flex their entrepreneurial muscles and acquire important life skills like goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics. All proceeds from cookie sales stay with local councils and troops to power Girl Scouts’ amazing experiences year-round.
This year’s theme, Unbox the Future, aims to remove social barriers that often keep girls boxed in. When bold, goal-getting Girl Scouts sell a package of cookies, they do much more than what’s seen at face value. Girl Scouts are entrepreneurial powerhouses creating a more equitable future for themselves and the world.
Nearly 700K girls participate in the Girl Scout Cookie Program, which provides vital girl-led entrepreneurial skills that build courage, confidence, and character. As a result, girls obtain limitless barrier-breaking futures outside the box with transferable life skills. Girl Scouts can earn a variety of badges and awards to develop valuable business skills, including Cookie Business badges, Financial Literacy badges, Cookie Entrepreneur Family pins, and Entrepreneur badges.
Councils rely on cookie earnings to run their programming, which supports incredible experiences for girls, such as service projects, troop travel, and summer camp. The 2024 lineup includes classics such as Thin Mints®, Samoas®/Caramel deLites®, Peanut Butter Patties®/Tagalongs®, Adventurefuls® and other fan favorites.
“When people buy Girl Scout Cookies, they’re buying so much more than cookies. Every package of Girl Scout Cookies sold puts girls one step closer to making real change in their own futures, communities, and the world,” said GSUSA Chief Revenue Officer Wendy Lou. “Girls break expectations through the power of the cookie program and open a host of possibilities beyond the box.”
This season, GSUSA calls on communities around the nation to unbox the future for young entrepreneurs with the world’s most life-changing cookies. Please support your local Girl Scouts by ordering from a girl you know or by visiting www.girlscoutcookies.org to find a booth near you. Be sure to visit www.girlscoutcookies.org again on February 16 to have cookies shipped directly to your home.
How to Purchase Girl Scout Cookies This Year
- If you know a registered Girl Scout, reach out to her to find out how she's selling cookies. If you don’t know a Girl Scout, check with your local council or use the Girl Scout Cookie Finder to find a booth and purchase cookies.
- Beginning February 16, customers who do not already know a Girl Scout will also be able to purchase cookies to be shipped directly to their homes by entering their zip code into the Girl Scout Cookie Finder. This link can also be used to find a local booth, purchase cookies, and/or to donate cookies for local community causes.
- You can also text COOKIES to 59618 to stay informed about how to purchase Girl Scout Cookies and other exciting Girl Scout news. Learn more about the Terms and Conditions and the SMS Privacy Policy.
For more than 100 years, Girl Scouts and their enthusiastic supporters have helped ensure the success of the iconic annual cookie program—and they’ve had fun, developed valuable life skills, and made their communities a better place every step of the way. Girl Scout Cookie season is recognized nationally from January through April, but local timing varies; visit www.girlscoutcookies.org to sign up to hear the latest news about cookies. Girl Scouts in grades K–12 can start their journey to fun, friendship and new experiences by joining the world's largest entrepreneurial organization for girls at any point in the year. Girls can join, and adults can become a volunteers at www.girlscouts.org/join.
Girl Scouts bring their dreams to life and work together to build a better world. Through programs from coast to coast, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges—whether they want to climb to the top of a tree or the top of their class, lace up their boots for a hike or advocate for climate justice, or make their first best friends. Backed by trusted adult volunteers, mentors, and millions of alums, Girl Scouts lead the way as they find their voices and make changes that affect the issues most important to them. To join us, volunteer, reconnect, or donate, visit girlscouts.org.
FAQs
This year's theme, Unbox the Future, aims to remove social barriers that often keep girls boxed in. When bold, goal-getting Girl Scouts sell a package of cookies, they do much more than what's seen at face value. Girl Scouts are entrepreneurial powerhouses creating a more equitable future for themselves and the world.
How many million Girl Scout Cookies are sold every year? ›
They're here for just a blip: a delicious springtime tradition when Girl Scout cookies—Thin Mints, Tagalongs, and Samoas (Caramel Delights)—are for sale anywhere and everywhere. Then, all of a sudden, they're gone. According to the Girl Scouts of the USA, 200 million boxes are sold in any given year.
How does selling Girl Scout Cookies help the girls? ›
The Girl Scout Cookie Program strives to offer girls important experiences in entrepreneurship, leadership, business, and finance from an early age, as well as provide girls and Girl Scout councils with the funding necessary for activities and programs throughout the troop year.
Why did Girl Scouts start selling cookies? ›
The sale of cookies to finance troop activities began as early as 1917, five years after Juliette Gordon Low started Girl Scouts in the United States. The Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked cookies and sold them in its high school cafeteria as a service project.
When did Girl Scouts start selling cookies in 2024? ›
Alameda, CA (January 9, 2024) – Girl Scouts of Northern California will kick off their 2024 Cookie Season on January 29. Consumers in all 19 counties from Gilroy to the Oregon Border can support their local girl entrepreneurs by ordering from the iconic cookie lineup online at ilovecookies.org.
What is the number 1 selling Girl Scout cookie? ›
According to the Girl Scouts website, Thin Mints is the highest-selling flavor of cookies nationally, followed by Samoas. The top 5 flavors of cookies sold nationally include: Thin Mints® Caramel deLites®/Samoas®
Who profits the most from Girl Scout Cookies? ›
Girl Scout economics: Thin mints, thick margins
- Girl Scout Councils make $4 – $5 per box.
- Troops get their cut ($1.10 per box)
- Scouts pick up the crumbs ($0.09 per box)
As Girl Scouts, girls discover the fun, friendship, and power of girls together. Girls grow courageous and strong through a wide variety of enriching experiences, such as field trips, skill-building sports clinics, community service projects, cultural exchanges, and environmental stewardships.
How do Girl Scouts affect society? ›
The Girl Scout Impact Study confirms that Girl Scouting has a strong, positive impact on girls, helping them develop into citizens who are responsible, caring, and engaged—and prepared for a lifetime of leadership. Girl Scouts exhibit stronger leadership outcomes than non–Girl Scouts. leadership outcomes.
What's so special about Girl Scout cookies? ›
People love Girl Scout cookies. Part of that is the taste; they are eminently edible, because they are cookies. Part of that is the nostalgia. They remind you of childhood, how you once were a Girl Scout, or knew a Girl Scout, or ate cookies.
Girl Scouts won't sell the Raspberry Rally this cookie season. The Girl Scouts are discontinuing a popular cookie just a year after its debut sparked a frenzy.
What Girl Scout learns from selling cookies? ›
For a few months every year, Girl Scouts sell cookies to support the adventures they want to go on. Each time someone purchases a box of Girl Scout Cookies, they are investing in future female entrepreneurs as they learn about goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics.
Why are Girl Scout Cookies so expensive? ›
The cost of cookies is different based on the troop. “Each council determines its own revenue structure depending on how much it costs the council to buy cookies, the local retail price to sell cookies, and the amount of revenue shared with participating troops,” said Girl Scouts of the United States on its website.
What is the oldest Girl Scout Cookie? ›
In July 1922, Girl Scout national headquarters published an edition of The American Girl magazine for all Girl Scouts. The issue contained a recipe for a sugar cookie that could be baked and sold to raise funds for local councils. Thus, the simple sugar cookie was arguably the first true Girl Scout Cookie.
Which Girl Scout Cookies are vegan in 2024? ›
Girl Scout Cookies are made by one of two bakeries: ABC Bakers (which offers six vegan cookie options this year: Toast-Yay, Peanut Butter Patties, Thin Mints, Lemonades, Adventurefuls, and Caramel Chocolate Chip) and Little Brownie Bakers (which offers one vegan cookie option: Thin Mints).
Do Girl Scout Cookies taste different in 2024? ›
Your guide to the 2024 Girl Scout Cookie season.
It's not just you: Your box of Thin Mints is made by one of two licensed Girl Scout bakeries (ABC or Little Brownie Bakers) that supply cookies for all 100+ troops across America. And while the cookies look the same–they don't taste alike!
How many Girl Guide cookies are sold each year? ›
Over 4 million boxes of Girl Guide cookies are sold each year across the country. Chocolatey mint cookies are available from October to December. Classic chocolate and vanilla sandwich cookies are available from March to June. Girl Guides have been selling cookies in Canada since 1927.
What is the record for Girl Scout Cookies sold? ›
Her record held for more than twenty-nine years, until Katie Francis, 12, sold 18,107 boxes in 2014. In 2017, Charlotte McCourt, a girl scout from New Jersey, sold over 25,000 boxes of cookies, breaking the record. In 2021, Lilly Bumpus, a childhood cancer survivor, broke the record by selling 32,484 boxes.
How many times a year do the Girl Scouts sell cookies? ›
The end of January through mid-March is when the girls are actively selling cookies. Rewards are distributed after the end of the Cookie Program. There are two bakers in the US that are licensed to bake Girl Scout Cookies.
How much were Girl Scout Cookies in 1970? ›
As we boogied into the 1970s, the Girl Scouts started to shake things up with new pricing strategies. Some councils tried out tiered pricing, offering deals for buying in bulk or asking a bit more for those extra-special cookie varieties. Cookies usually went for between $1 to $1.25 per box.
