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2025 Girl Scout Cookie Program

Resources for Troop Cookie Chairs, Parents, and Girl Scouts

The 2025 Cookie Program started on Friday, January 3, 2025. All cookie varieties will remain the same—Adventurefuls, Lemon-Ups, Trefoils, Do-Si-Dos, Samoas, Tagalongs, Thin Mints, Toffee-tastics (gluten free), and S’mores. 2025 will be the last year for S’mores. Mei Lan the Panda is the 2025 mascot.

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Use the drop-down menus below for forms, information, and training materials to assist Troop Cookie Chairs, Troop Leaders, Parents, and Girl Scouts throughout the 2025 Cookie Program. 

$50 for 50 cases!

Council Goal and Marketing Opportunities

The #1 reason people do not buy Girl Scout Cookies? They were never asked!

If as a council we match 2024 Cookie Program total sales of 1.25 million cookie packages, all troops will receive an additional $.05 per package in troop proceeds. The cookie progress chart displayed has been updated as of Monday, March 10. This will be updated weekly. Below are Marketing Opportunities for troops to utilize and Council Actions as we work together to reach this goal!

Troop Marketing Opportunities
• Buy 1, Win 10 weekly drawings (promotion sign)
• Message Boards—Post a flyer on community message boards with a QR code to your troop link. Use this flyer or have your Girl Scouts make their own!
• Cookie Booth samples—Ask at a cupboard if there are any damaged cookies to use for samples.
• Community Newsletters, Church bulletins, School Newsletters—work with your Service Unit or other troops at your school and ask local organizations if they can post/share a message for free.
• Review the NEW Cookie Booth Guide for more location, planning and marketing ideas.
• Use the Last Chance for S’mores poster
• Do a Cookie Donation campaign. Decide as a troop on local organizations and essential businesses to donate cookies and participate in Gift of Caring Opportunity. Girl Scouts can earn the Cookie Bundle charm. Offer a donation receipt to customers.
• Girl Scouts participate in Cookie Business Challenge. Work together as a troop!
• Do a door-to-door Wagon Sale in the neighborhood! Leave a Door Hanger if someone is not home.

Council Actions—Focus is to bring awareness of the Cookie Program to the public, directing customers to Find Cookies to locate Cookie Booths, and connecting customers to Girl Scouts.
• Social Media advertising
• Napkin wraps at restaurants
• ¼ page flyers for businesses to set out and restaurants to include on take-out orders and/or table toppers
• Movie theater (Yorkville) electronic signs
• Marketing emails to previous customers and GSNI supporters
The Product Program Team welcomes assistance from Girl Scouts, parents or volunteers for wider distribution of the napkin wraps, ¼ page flyers or other promotion ideas. Help us help you by connecting us with your local area businesses!

Package Pricing and Troop Proceeds

How Does the Cookie Crumble?
For every package of cookies, approximately 28% covers the cost of operating the Cookie Program including cookie production, credit card fees, software support, transportation, storage, marketing, and personnel, while 22% is spent on troop proceeds, Girl Scout rewards, Cookie/S’more Dough, and service unit bonuses. In MY25, the remaining 50% will provide GSNI with approximately 70% of its annual operating budget to invest in programs, activities, camps, properties, and support of troops and service units.
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Upload the signed Product Program Permission/Financial Responsibility Form
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    Upload all receipts of cookie packages issued and money collected.
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    Please upload receipts given to parent.

      Cookie Craver
      Parents or Troop Cookie Chairs may bring in a Cookie Craver submission form to a GSNI Council Cupboard ONLY, Thursday, February 6-Saturday, March 8 to receive cookies for additional customer orders. Payment is required at the time of submission/cookie pick-up. Girl Scouts can earn the Goal Getter patch with submission of 18 packages.

      Cookie Craver (additional details), (Spanish)
      Cookie Craver order card  (Spanish)
      Cookie Craver submission form (Spanish)

      Cookie Business Challenge
      Girl Scouts can be a Cookie Entrepreneur and Captain by participating in the Cookie Business Challenge! Girl Scouts can earn a patch and businesses benefit from support and recognition of the Girl Scout Cookie Program! For Girl Scouts to receive their patch and to ensure businesses are recognized appropriately, the Girl Scout/parent must complete the Cookie Business Challenge online form by Monday, March 17.

      Cookie Business Challenge (additional details)
      Cookie Business Challenge submission form

      Gift of Caring (GOC) Opportunity
      GSNI encourages troops to deliver GOC cookies. For troops that delivery GOC Cookies and complete the GOC online delivery form by Monday, April 14, all Girl Scouts in the troop who sold donation cookies and/or participated in the delivery date will receive the Cookie Bundle charm! Troops may collect the donation cookies themselves or pick-up from council.

      Gift of Caring Opportunity (additional information)
      Gift of Caring Delivery form

      Here’s an incredible opportunity to celebrate the amazing Girl Scouts who are shaking things up with the Cookie Program! If you know a GSNI Girl Scout who’s a true trailblazer—someone who thinks outside the box, embraces innovation, leads with heart, and shows the entrepreneurial spirit that defines a true Cookie Boss—now’s your chance to give them the recognition they deserve!

      Submit your nomination for a Girl Scout Game Changer using this form. Selected Girl Scouts will not only receive the Do-Si-Dos Panda charm 🎖️ but could also be featured on GSNI’s social media during the cookie program, running through March 9, 2025. Don’t wait—shine a spotlight on their creativity and courage today!