While Girl Scouts have been selling Girl Scout Cookies since mid-January, Friday. February 23 marks the first chance to directly purchase a box for yourself at one of more than 2,000 Girl Scout Cookie booth locations in Monmouth and Ocean counties.
This year, the Girl Scouts are celebrating 101 years of girls selling cookies. Available cookies include Thin Mints, Samoas, Tagalongs, Trefoils, Do-Si-Dos and Savannah Smiles at $4 a box. S'mores and gluten-free Toffee-Tastics cost $5.50 a box.
All Girl Scout Cookie earnings stay local. The Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore uses Girl Scout Cookie proceeds to develop programming for girls, and Girl Scouts who sell cookies decide how to use their earnings to power amazing experiences like community service projects, travel and Girl Scout summer camp. Through the Girl Scout Cookie Program, Girl Scouts learn skills they will use throughout life such as goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills and business ethics.
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For those who want to support a Girl Scout, but don’t want to buy cookies, the Girl Scouts of the Jersey Shore has partnered with local food banks and the military for its Gift of Caring Program.
You can order cookies through a Girl Scout you know or look for cookie booths in the community. You can also find the nearest cookie booth online or by using the Girl Scout Cookie Locator app for Apple and Android devices. Just go to www.girlscoutcookies.org to begin.
