National
Girl Scout Cookie Weekend is a time for cookie lovers everywhere to learn more
about the good the Girl Scouts do for their local community. This year,
we’re happy to share just a few of those exceptional stories with you.
Having
been in Girl Scouts for four years, Sidney could tell you a thing or two about
selling cookies. So when she noticed that people avoided purchasing
cookies, she found a new way to keep them interested and engaged. For
every sale that Sidney made, she’d ask, “Would you like to donate a box to the
military?” And, unsurprisingly, people kept saying yes. She took
those 296 boxes of donated cookies and sent them directly to the USS Theodore
Roosevelt operations department, after meeting a former sailor at a cookie
booth.
But
Sidney didn’t stop there. Even after they donated those extra boxes to
the military, she and her troop were able to donate over $750 worth of much
needed items to a local humane society, and a total of 320 volunteer hours.
So,
when you head out to a cookie booth in your community this weekend, be sure to
ask the girls what they do with their cookie money. Because, oh, what a
girl can do!