Important Links
M2OS: Fall Product Program
ebudde: Cookie Program
Digital Cookies: Online Cookie Store
Council Fund-raisers in a nutshell:
There are two product programs each year: Fall Product and Cookies. It is the responsibility of troop leaders to offer the programs to all families and to encourage participation.
Why do we participate?
This is how we support our local camps, offer membership to those who are in need, provide programs and lower cost activities for our girls and troops, and provide resources for our leaders and leadership teams to use throughout the year. Additionally, girls receive funds from the programs for their own activities, projects, badges, and troop plans.
Troops that are interested in having additional money-earning activities are required to participate in both of council’s product programs (fall product and cookies).
Both Programs are run by Volunteers in our Service Unit:
This could be adult members, leaders, co-leaders, or even older girls to assist with both programs. Without these volunteers we would not have successful programs nor some of the Community events. Consider volunteering with the su402 Team.
Contact Council’s Product Program with any questions at 855-456-8347 or productprogram@girlscoutsgcnwi.org.
FALL PRODUCT
The fall product program consists of candy, nuts and magazines. By participating in this program, troops get a head start on funding their activities for the year.
Fall Product sales training & packet pick-up: September, and sale runs through October. Packets are usually picked-up at a volunteers home in our community.
Delivery Pick-up: Delivery date is in the middle of November. Troop Leaders will be notified with a date and time to pick up their Fall Products.
Troops Earn: Daisy through Brownies receive 15% for each nut/candy items sold and can earn initial and cumulative rewards. Juniors and up have an option to opt out for 18% for each nut/candy items sold.
Rewards: All girls receive rewards which are listed on back of order card. Rewards are cumulative. Juniors through Ambassadors have an option to opted out of.
Rewards Pick-up: This could be possible the same day or a week later of the delivery date usually the first week in December. However can be as late in January or longer. Troop Leaders will be notified with a date, time, and location to pick-up their troop rewards including patches.
How to participate: Fill out the Fall Product Program form or via email which will be available sometime in September. A volunteer will contact you to make arrangements to pick-up your troop packets.
COOKIES
There are several brackets to the cookie program, here is a brief and simplified outline of what is involved with the program. Click HERE for additional information.
Cookie Packets: Cookie packets are mailed to a “key” leader’s home in October, IF the troop and girls registered before October 1 through council. Additional packets can be picked-up at a volunteers home.
Cookie Training: We will go over the cookie process and distribute additional cookie materials if needed at the November su402 Leaders Meeting. We highly recommend new troop leaders or new cookie parents to attend. Council will have additional trainings offered throughout the cookie season.
PHASE 1
Digital Cookies (DOC): Customers can order their faves online, pay by credit card, and have cookies shipped right to their home OR have girl-delivery.
Initial Orders: Sales begins the same time as Digital Cookies mid December, no orders may be taken before given date unless to family members. Initial orders run through January then entered into eBudde website.
Delivery for Initial Orders: This is set up as a drive through centered locally as possible in the Service Unit area in the first or second weekend of February. This will be the only time your troop can pick-up the initial cookie order.
PHASE 2
Cookie Cupboards & Goal Getters – After Initial Orders: Depending on the need, the troop or girls can pick up additional cookie cases or boxes at Council after initial (phase 1) orders is completed.
Booth Site Sales: Booth sign-up is in the middle of January through eBudde website. Loop Site Sales (downtown Chicago) are before January, see troop cookie guide for information. Depending on locations within our communities, our Service Unit will release local sites around February 1 through a sign-up link, watch for emails. Any site sales not listed in eBudde website WILL NEED be approved from the su402 Cookie Team through “my sales” in eBudde.
Permits: Door-to-Door and Site Sale Permits are required in Arlington Heights and Wheeling; follow the Village hours and regulations. These villages do not allow door-to-door selling on Sundays and Holidays.
REWARDS
Troops/Girl Rewards & Incentives: Daisy through Brownies earn $0.90 per box and can earn initial and cumulative rewards. Juniors through Ambassadors have an option to opt out of rewards, earn $1.00 per box, and a patches if they sold more than 30 boxes. There are additional patches girls could earn: Gift of Caring, and Goal Getters. See the Cookie Troop Guide for new updates on rewards.
Rewards Pick-up: In late May or early June the su402 Team will post a date to pick-up your troop incentives, rewards, and/or patches. Older troops that opted-out for rewards will need to pick-up their patches (As of 2022, troops that opted out of rewards do not earn initial rewards). If you cannot come during the arranged time please find another adult to pick-up for you. Any items not picked-up will be donated or returned back to council.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
Cookie packets will be sent directly to one leader per troop to their home address if troops registered by October 1st. Communicate within your troop about who received the materials. Additional packets might be needed depending when girls registered, contact the su402productteam@gmail.com via email with the following information: troop number and how many additional packets per troop. Schedule to attend the cookie training to pick-up additional packets and learn of any new procedures.
Blackout Dates & Highest Awards
Additional Fundraisers & Money-Earning Projects
Troops that participate in both the Fall Product and the Cookie Programs may have extra Fundraisers. Money-earning projects cannot take place during the blackout months of October, January, February and March. Those dates are reserved for Council Fundraisers.
Highest Awards
Girl Scouts who need to earn funds to support their Bronze, Silver or Gold Award Projects must participate in the Fall Product and Girl Scout Cookie programs, selling the minimum number of cookies and fall product (see below) as their first money-earning activity.
There is no minimum required level of participation unless the individual, troop, or group is asking for financial assistance and/or wanting to do another money-earning activity. In these cases, the minimum each girl must sell is defined as:
- a minimum of 12 candy/nut products OR
- a combination of both for Fall Product and four magazine subscriptions
- AND a minimum of 30 packages of cookies
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