Cookie sales provide the largest source of funding for Girl Guides at all levels. Profits are shared with the unit, district, area and provincial councils to support Guiding programs. Revenues may be used in the units for purchasing crafts, supplies and badges, subsidizing camp and other unit activities.

• Developing and implementing your daughters program.
• Program resources for leaders.
• Camperships so everyone has the opportunity to camp.
• International and interprovincial trips for girls.
• Leadership development for Guiders.
• Program events, rallies and camps.

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For more Cookie resources see the Forms page.

The process of setting goals and targets allows your unit to choose how far you want to go and what you want to do with your cookie profits! Goal setting gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals.

By setting cookie goals with your unit you can:

• Achieve more profits.
• Improve selling.
• Increase your motivation to achieve.
• Increase your pride and satisfaction in your achievements.
• Individually improve the self-confidence of your unit girls.

Now that you have an idea how much profit you need to make to accomplish all the activities you want to do, break it down into something the girls can relate to.

Use a large poster board or construction paper to cut out petals of a sunflower. Depending on the number of girls in your unit and the number of cookies you've ordered, have each petal represent either a box or a case of cookies. Each time a girl brings in payment for a box or case of cookies, paste a petal on the poster board. Twelve petals, each one representing either a box or a case of cookies, make up a flower.

Download Petals (pdf)

Each time a box or case of cookies is taken to be sold, draw the petal on poster board. Each time the money for that box is returned, fill in the petal. You can colour the petals or use construction or crepe paper to fill them in. Girls in your unit will be able to see how many boxes or cases are out by how many petals are drawn, and how many have been sold by the number of petals coloured or filled in.

Cookie selling door to door is not safe these days?
Myth - Since you will be keeping to our unit supervision guidelines, door to door sales is a very safe way to sell cookies. Many units sell cookies with one adult supervising four or five girls who work in pairs.

Sandwich cookies can not be sold during the mint campaign.
Myth - If you do have spring cookies left and you have stored them properly they can be sold during the mint campaign.

Mint cookies can not be sold door to door.
Myth - Cookies from either campaign can be sold door to door. In fact, we often hear "no one ever comes to my house", so door to door sales would probably improve our sales!

The mint cookies are an optional fundraiser.
Myth - The Manitoba Council relies on the two cookie campaigns as the main revenue source to fund all of the programs and events we offer. Less cookie sales means less events and subsidies we can offer.

Cookies do not provide us with the same profit as other fundraisers.
Myth - While the unit does not get 100% of the profit from each carton of cookies, a % of the cost of the cookies is given to various levels in Guiding. Your area and province depend on these monies to provide such items as: area events, training subsidies, resources such as kick starts, provincial annual training, etc..