Girl Scout Cookies season is here!
Girl Scouts of North East Ohio (GSNEO) kicked off the 2025 Girl Scout Cookie season on January 13.
Girl Scout Cookie season is a beloved annual event when Girl Scouts and their troops rally their communities to support the world’s largest entrepreneurial program for girls. Every box of cookies sold provides invaluable experiences for Girl Scouts such as service projects, troop travel, and summer camp for girls across the country.
Girl Scouts acquire a host of invaluable entrepreneurial skills by participating in the cookie program, 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.
Girl Scouts also obtain transferable life skills as they earn a variety of badges and awards, including Cookie Business badges, Financial Literacy badges, Cookie Entrepreneur Family pins, and Entrepreneur badges.
Unbox the Future is this year’s returning theme because with each box of cookies sold, Girl Scouts are doing so much more than just spreading sweet treats. Girl Scouts are learning how to be entrepreneurial powerhouses creating a more equitable future for themselves and the world!
“The Girl Scout Cookie Program is not simply about selling cookies. It’s a program that creates opportunities for Girl Scouts to learn, grow, and thrive,” said Jane Christyson, CEO of GSNEO. “From learning how to interact with customers to creating budgets and taking orders, participating in the Girl Scout Cookie Program teaches Girl Scouts invaluable skills that they’ll need to succeed throughout their lives. Troops work together to set their cookie selling goals, and use the proceeds towards programs and experiences for their troops.”
In 2024, more than 12,000 Girl Scouts participated in the Girl Scout Cookie Program in northeast Ohio, with over two million boxes sold.
This season, cookie lovers will enjoy the full assortment of Girl Scout Cookies, including Thin Mints®, Samoas®, Do-si-dos® and more.
How to purchase Girl Scout Cookies this year
Girl Scout Cookie season is a beloved annual event when Girl Scouts and their troops rally their communities to support the world’s largest entrepreneurial program for girls. Every box of cookies sold provides invaluable experiences for Girl Scouts such as service projects, troop travel, and summer camp for girls across the country.
Girl Scouts acquire a host of invaluable entrepreneurial skills by participating in the cookie program, 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.
Girl Scouts also obtain transferable life skills as they earn a variety of badges and awards, including Cookie Business badges, Financial Literacy badges, Cookie Entrepreneur Family pins, and Entrepreneur badges.
Unbox the Future is this year’s returning theme because with each box of cookies sold, Girl Scouts are doing so much more than just spreading sweet treats. Girl Scouts are learning how to be entrepreneurial powerhouses creating a more equitable future for themselves and the world!
“The Girl Scout Cookie Program is not simply about selling cookies. It’s a program that creates opportunities for Girl Scouts to learn, grow, and thrive,” said Jane Christyson, CEO of GSNEO. “From learning how to interact with customers to creating budgets and taking orders, participating in the Girl Scout Cookie Program teaches Girl Scouts invaluable skills that they’ll need to succeed throughout their lives. Troops work together to set their cookie selling goals, and use the proceeds towards programs and experiences for their troops.”
In 2024, more than 12,000 Girl Scouts participated in the Girl Scout Cookie Program in northeast Ohio, with over two million boxes sold.
This season, cookie lovers will enjoy the full assortment of Girl Scout Cookies, including Thin Mints®, Samoas®, Do-si-dos® and more.
How to purchase Girl Scout Cookies this year
- If you know a registered Girl Scout, reach out to her to find out how she’s selling cookies in ways that meet local and state safety protocols.
- Don’t know a Girl Scout? Visit gsneo.org/findcookies and submit a customer cookie request form to be connected with a local Girl Scout troop.
- Beginning February 21, consumers can enter their zip code into the Girl Scout Cookie Finder at www.gsneo.org/findcookies to purchase cookies online from a local troop for direct shipment.
- Girl Scout Cookie sales kicked off in 1917 with cookies initially being home baked by girl members with moms volunteering as technical advisers.
- Girl Scout Cookies began being mass produced by bakers in 1936.
- Thin Mints, the most popular Girl Scout Cookie, were originally known as Cooky Mints and began being offered in 1939.
- Digital Cookie, the online ordering system, was launched in 2014.
- All Girl Scout Cookies are both kosher and Halal certified. There are vegan (Thin Mints) and gluten-free (Toffee-Tastic) varieties too!