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It's cookie time!
Girl scout cookies ... an investment in girls and in your community
Girl Scouts are ringing doorbells across central and eastern North Carolina. When you answer your door, remember that it's more than a box of cookies – it's a lasting investment in your community.
Girl Scout Cookies offer that great familiar taste -- from the Girl Scout Thin Mint to the Caramel deLite -- but they also allow you to help provide funds for the premier leadership program for girls. No other program offers girls so much in developing courage, confidence and character -- and it all starts with a box of cookies.
"We love the Girl Scout Cookie Sale Program because it's a win-win for everybody," said Rusine Mitchell Sinclair, chief executive officer of Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines. "Girls learn valuable life skills like budgeting, time and money management, teamwork, networking, inventory control, and problem solving -- while having fun and helping their troop earn funds to do the neat things that girls love to do. And they're helping Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines provide many programs and opportunities to the more than 33,000 girls in our 41-county jurisdiction."
Girl Scout Cookies have been an American tradition for more than 90 years -- and for good reason. Girl Scout Cookies are the ultimate comfort food and are a family tradition, with many people purchasing multiple boxes every year to not only enjoy their favorites and new cookies year after year, but also to support girls in our communities.
 Those who don't wish to purchase cookies for their own consumption still can assist Girl Scouts by making a purchase and donating the cookies to Operation Cookie Drop. Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines is in its eighth year of sending cookies to military troops. To date, customer donations have purchased more than 415,000 boxes of cookies for men and women in uniform serving overseas.
As simple as the cookie is, the snack offers Girl Scouts the funds needed to provide programming that offers a life-changing experience during their girlhood. Proceeds from cookie sales fund activities of individual troops as well as Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines, including financial assistance for girls to participate in events, program fees, volunteer recruitment and training, and maintenance of camp properties.
Girl Scout Cookies are sold door to door in central and eastern North Carolina from Saturday, Jan. 7, through Sunday, March 11. Beginning Super Bowl weekend, Girl Scout troops will be selling cookies at booths set up in areas such as retail stores and shopping centers.
What's new in this year's cookie sale is that when cookie booths start up, many customers will be able to use their credit card when they buy cookies. Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Piines has partnered with Sage Mobile Payment to create merchant accounts for each Girl Scout troop that participates in the new program.
If you wish to purchase cookies and have not been called on, look for cookie booths in your community (posted on the council's website by early February) or call Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines toll-free at 800-284-4475 to be connected with a local troop.
About Girl Scouts of the USA
Founded in 1912, Girl Scouts of the USA is the preeminent leadership development organization for girls with 3.2 million girl and adult members worldwide. Girl Scouting is the leading authority on girls’ healthy development, and builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.
About Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines
Girl Scouts - North Carolina Coastal Pines serves more than 33,000 girl members and more than 10,000 adult members in 41 central and eastern North Carolina counties (Beaufort, Bladen, Brunswick, Carteret, Chatham, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Duplin, Durham, Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Greene, Halifax, Harnett, Hoke, Johnston, Jones, Lee, Lenoir, Martin, Moore, Nash, New Hanover, Northampton, Onslow, Orange, Pamlico, Pender, Person, Pitt, Richmond, Robeson, Sampson, Scotland, Vance, Wake, Warren, Wayne, and Wilson). The council’s administrative headquarters is located in Raleigh, with additional program and service centers located in Fayetteville and Goldsboro. For more information on membership or volunteer opportunities, call 919-782-3021 or visit our website.
 
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