MEDIA RELEASE FROM GIRL SCOUTS OF WESTERN OHIO
LIMA, OH—Starting today, through March 16, area Girl Scout entrepreneurs will be out and about the community at local businesses, holding drive-through cookie booths, setting up cookie stands in their neighborhood, and taking online orders to ensure cookie lovers can enjoy all their favorite Girl Scout Cookies®. This year’s lineup includes the perennially popular Thin Mints®, Caramel deLites®, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, and the Lemonades® — and for the last time, the Toast-Yay!® variety, which will be retired after 2025.
Customers can plan their cookie shopping excursion by visiting gswo.org/findcookies and entering their ZIP code to find upcoming booths. Starting Monday, February 17, customers can use that same link to connect with a troop for local delivery or shipping, or purchase cookies online for donation to area foodbanks and military and veterans’ organizations.
With each purchase, community members support the girls behind each box. Ask a Girl Scout at a cookie booth about her goals and her plans for the proceeds. Her answers may be more detailed and ambitious than expected!
All proceeds from cookie sales stay local in western Ohio and southeastern Indiana, fueling inspiring experiences throughout the year, including camp, amazing trips, service projects and much more.
When girls participate in the Girl Scout Cookie Program, the largest entrepreneurial program in the world, they acquire a host of invaluable entrepreneurial skills, including goal setting, money management, decision making, people skills, and business ethics. Each box of cookies sold allows Girl Scouts to develop an inextinguishable entrepreneurial spirit, gaining courage, confidence, and character as they conquer new feats and embark on new adventures.
In addition, Girl Scouts obtain transferable life skills as they earn a variety of related badges and awards, including Cookie Business badges, Financial Literacy badges, Cookie Entrepreneur Family pins, and Entrepreneur badges.
We Are Girl Scouts
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 gswo.org, or follow Girl Scouts of Western Ohio on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
