Girl Scout Cookie sales and booths open now
The Girl Scouts of the Chesapeake Bay Girl Scout Cookie booths are open for business outside stores and in shopping malls, offering the heralded, all-new Lemon Ups Girl Scout Cookie plus seven favorite traditional flavors.
Through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, girls empower themselves by earning their own funds to put toward amazing experiences – some of which are illustrated on this year’s new Girl Scout Cookie packaging, from adventure-packed camping and canoeing, to exploring space science and designing robots, to taking action to improve their communities. Every purchase makes incredible experiences like these possible for girls in the local community.
This cookie season, Girl Scouts introduce a sweet new way to support young female entrepreneurs who learn essential business skills like money management and goal setting through the cookie program: Lemon-Ups. This crispy lemon cookie is baked with messages inspired by Girl Scout entrepreneurs, such as “I am a go-getter” and “I am an innovator” – two of the eight phrases that bring the experience of Girl Scouting to life.
The new cookie joins the national 2020 lineup, which also includes favorites such as Thin Mints, Samoas, Trefoils, Do-Si-Dos, Tagalongs, S’Mores and Toffee-tastics.
Girls also take donations of Girl Scout Cookies for Operation Taste of Home and local community groups. The Operation Taste of Home cookies are donated to U.S. armed forces and local agencies such as food banks and pantries, blood banks, cancer centers and youth programs.
All proceeds from local councils’ cookie activities remain in the area where the cookies are sold. This revenue is used to benefit girls, some of it directly by remaining in the Girl Scout troop treasuries, and some of it indirectly by funding council-led programs for Girl Scouts. Girl Scout Cookies are $5 per box, except for Toffee-tastics and S’mores at $6 per box.
Each year, thousands of Girl Scouts across the Delmarva Peninsula participate in the cookie program, selling over 1 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies to the community.
To find Girl Scout Cookie booths in a particular area, go to gscb.org and enter the ZIP code. To order cookies online, ask a Girl Scout for her online site using the Digital Cookie platform.
Individuals interested in purchasing cookies or donating to Operation Taste of Home can call the Cookie Hotline at 1-800-YUM-YUM2 or go to www.gscb.org.
