Use this checklist to prepare your service unit for the cookie sale. Be sure to follow your own council's guildelines.
Get help: Recruit a cookie team for your service unit. (Be sure to follow your council's recruitment guidelines.) Consider including a position for overseeing individual Girl Scouts (Juliettes) who want to participate. Set up a communication system for the team, preferably online.
Work with your council to identify local delivery sites. They should be:
  • Accessible to delivery trucks
  • Dry and safe
  • Convenient
Conduct training for troop/cookie cookie managers and leaders/advisors.
  • Focus on the importance of goal setting.
  • Be a mentor for first timers.
  • Distribute troop materials and explain how to use them.
  • Encourage online documentation.
  • Remember, your enthusiasm will set the tone for all those around you!
Gather troop cookie orders and compile the service unit cookie order.
Supervise cookie distribution.
Manage cookie shops within your service unit.
Monitor cupboards, if you have them. Keep in touch with your troops so that surplus cookies can be redistributed quickly.
Re-order more cookies as needed.
Ensure that all the cookie money is collected.
Prepare all necessary reports and paperwork for cookies and recognitions and turn in to your council on time.
Thank those who have worked on your team.
Pat yourself on the back--your work is important and has really made a difference!
 
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