The 2017 Girl Scout Cookie Program was a great success!
The 2017 Cookie Sale has come to an end and the centennial of this program was full of many amazing accomplishments from our girls, parents, and troop leaders who all helped make it a sweet success! This year all that hard work resulted in an increase in overall sales, which also led to troops and girls earning more proceeds, recognitions, and camp credits, too!
Highlights...
Volunteer Breakfast! The season began with a volunteer breakfast in November that featured WJAR TV 10’s Alison Bologna, who was the 2017 Honorary Cookie Chair.
Cookie Rally! In January, over 800 girls, leaders, and family members participated in the annual GSSNE Cookie Rally. Interactive activities helped the girls get ready for the sale by focusing on the 5 skills that girls learn through participation: goal setting, business ethics, money management, people skills, and decision making. After the rally, attendees enjoyed a Providence Bruins hockey game.
Cookies & Cocktails! We celebrated the 100th Anniversary with an incredible event at the Citizens Bank Rotunda on January 26th where our guests were able to sample delicious desserts made by some of the area’s finest restaurants using Girl Scout cookies.
S’mores! Our loyal cookie fans could not get enough of the new Girl Scout S’mores™ cookie! We are really looking forward to having this new addition in the lineup next year!
Top Seller! The highest seller in the council was Caitlyn T., an Ambassador Girl Scout from Troop 490 in East Providence. Caitlyn sold an amazing 2,510 packages of cookies, which will help send her troop on a trip to Europe this summer. Way to go Caitlyn!
2017 Facts
Over 740,000 packages of cookies were sold in 2017!
4,614 of our registered Girl Scouts participated in the sale. That’s 92%!
Digital cookie sales increased by an amazing 200%.
Approximately $440,000 was earned by Troops in proceeds.
$27,956 of camp credits were applied toward the cost of GSSNE camps as of mid-May
GS Troops donated $3,700 to Operation Stand Down Rhode Island’s Marine CPL Holly Charette Home, this year’s Cookie Sale community service project.
Over 5,700 packages of cookies were donated to local military organizations and other area non-profits.
We saw an increase in per girl averages to 160 packages sold per girl, up from 148 in 2016!
Over 1,200 cookie booths were hosted during the sale.