eBudde has gone mobile with their Troop App! Nearly everything that eBudde offers is now available through this convenient app! View girls, place orders, sign up for cookie booths, place a pending cupboard order, and so much more. Be sure to check out the app to successfully manage your troop's Cookie Program while on the go.
What better way to celebrate the spirit of the Girl Scout Cookie Program than to host a cookie-selling house party? This is a super-fun strategy to help you take your cookie business to new heights! Plan a party and invite friends, families and all of your favorite cookie customers to hear your cookie goals and favorite recipes and encourage them to purchase cookies by the case! Share your proceeds plans with your guests and discuss the great things you’ve learned through the cookie sale program.
Keep your Clover Go transactions professional by downloading the Girl
Scouts of Western Ohio logo here and adding it to your app so it
appears on all of your cookie receipts!
Hear from Roni Luckenbill, CEO of Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, as she shares important information about the 2020 Cookie Program!
Thank you for your incredible commitment to our girls during this crisis. We are sensitive to the challenges you face at home, work, and with your families.
With these challenges in mind, and continued challenges we face from this pandemic, we have made the decision to end the Cookie Program on Friday, April 24, 2020. We want to assure you, no troop will be penalized for any leftover inventory or face financial hardship if these extra cookies are due to the pandemic.
So what does that mean for your troop?
We are asking every Troop Cookie Manager to complete an online form choosing the scenario that best describes your troop’s intent as it relates to the Cookie Program. With this information we can help ensure our troops have all the resources they need and close out the Cookie Program without further delays.
- Option 1: Ready to finish and no cookies left to sell
- Option 2: Troop has cookies left to sell and is eager to do so
- Option 3: Troop is done selling but has remaining inventory
Please complete the Cookie Closeout Survey by April 24 to select which option is best for your troop.
If you want to continue, and girls in your troop have not yet reached their goals and still want to sell – we will support you and your troop in finding those opportunities. Details on how to sell virtually can be found below.
If your troop has extra cookies due to this pandemic, we ask that you donate the cookies to a worthy community organization of your choice, when it is safe to do so. Please document your donation for your records, and share photos of your service on the GSWO Facebook page.
Troops should make the decision best for them and their families, and we fully respect the choices that are made. No matter how you choose to move forward with your troop’s cookie program, no troop will be financially penalized for any leftover inventory due to COVID-19.
More detailed information will be shared with Troop Cookie Managers through eBudde and with Service Unit Cookie Coordinators, so please be on the lookout for next steps. Please read this information carefully; it is critical that each and every troop select an option and submit the online form, so we can best support you moving forward.
Thank you again. We are so inspired by all of you—our girls, volunteers and families—who are stepping up to make the world a better place and showing others what Girl Scouts is all about.
If you would like to continue selling Girl Scout Cookies...
Current promotions are outlined below. Please note that 40% of your troop's balance due will be withdrawn from your troop bank account on April 10. You will receive an email at the beginning of April with the total balance we will withdraw from your troop's bank account.
Business Bosses Supporting Cookie Bosses
Through media and individual outreach, we are actively seeking businesses who want to differentiate themselves by supporting local Girl Scouts. Businesses can sell (or donate) 4 or more cases of cookies on behalf of the troop.
Troops can complete this form to request to be matched with a business. If you would like to invite one or more businesses in your community to participate, you can send them to our Business Bosses Supporting Cookie Bosses webpage, or share posts from our social media.
Virtual Cookie Booths
To facilitate online sales, we have temporarily relaxed the restriction on sharing cookie links on public pages.
- Permitted: Posts to Closed or Private Facebook Community Groups or other local community social media.
- Not Permitted: Posts to Public pages such as Marketplace, Craigslist, eBay, or Amazon are still not allowed per safety guidelines.
- Customers can purchase digitally and pay via Clover (or other methods) and arrange porch drop offs.
- Many troops have had success sharing videos of girls shown with their remaining inventory, creating cookie “Quarantine Survival Kits,” and inviting friends and neighbors to donate to Troop Gift of Caring.
Eat. Share. Show Communities We Care.
You may have seen a promotion from GSUSA, our national organization, called “Eat. Share. Show Communities We Care.” We took the initiative to launch Business Bosses Supporting Cookie Bosses (for companies who want to purchase cookies) and the Cookie Relief Fund (for donors who want to support girls who lost sales) before the national campaign. Therefore, we are not participating in the national promotion. To help local Girl Scouts, please support and share one or both of these efforts.
Please know that we are continuing to work on other initiatives to ensure the disruption to the Girl Scout Cookie Program does not cause financial hardships for troops, volunteers, and/or families.
