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Media Releases
Helping Girls
Prepare for the Real World
Girl Scout Cookie Program Gives
Girls Real Life Skills
Media Contact:
Ann Marie van den Hurk, APR
302-456-7170
avandenhurk@cbgsc.org
Newark, DE,
February 14, 2006: A
recent study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, finds that college
students lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks as
having math skills needed for checkbooks or restaurant tips.
The Girl Scout
Cookie program is more than just selling cookies, but has an impact
in girls’ lives by giving them real life skills such as money
management, decision-making, and goal setting... skills they need
for today and tomorrow.
The beneficial effects are evidenced by the fact that
many of today’s businesswomen cite selling Girl Scout cookies as
their first step toward successful careers.
“I learned how to manage my money that I earned from selling
cookies.” Said Junior Girl Scout Kemmie, Troop 1453, Claymont,
Delaware. Her troop is working towards attending a theatre
production and helping others in need such as hurricane victims and
others in disaster areas.
Community members
can purchase Girl Scout Cookies directly at Cookie Booths in grocery
stores, drug stores, and churches throughout the Delmarva Peninsula
starting on February 17. For more information call 1-800-YUM-YUM2 or
go to
www.girlscoutschesapeakebay.org through March 12. Cookies are
$3.50 per box.
All the proceeds
from this program stay here in the communities the Girl Scouts come
from, directly benefiting all of the Girl Scouts in our community,
including the Girl Scout troop you buy Girl Scout cookies from. In
2005, over 7,700 Girl Scouts on the Delmarva Peninsula
learned money management and marketing skills in the Cookie Program
with over 1 million boxes sold to their communities.
Approximately 18,000 girls participate in Girl Scouts each year on
the Delmarva Peninsula.
The mission of Girl Scouting is to build girls of courage,
confidence, and character, who in turn make the world better place.
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The 2006 Cookie Program theme is Be Brilliant. It focuses on
science. Girls who take part in the cookie program activities become
students of the Institute of Cook-E-ology and learn the Formula 4
Success: They can do anything!
2006 Cookie Program Fact Sheet
Radio PSA
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