Girl Scout Cookie Sales Get Started In South Jersey

The New Year means it’s time for Girl Scout Cookies.

The Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey will soon begin knocking on doors, reaching out to family and friends, and setting up booths at local businesses to sell their famous cookies, the organization announced on Thursday.

2022 brings with it the introduction of a new cookie and a new method for selling cookies.

First, the practical: a collaboration with DoorDash to offer contactless, same-day delivery of Girl Scout cookies.

Now the delicious: brownie-inspired cookies with caramel-flavored crème and a hint of sea salt, called the Adventurefuls.

The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest female-led entrepreneurship and financial literacy program in the country. For more than 100 years, the program has become synonymous
with Girl Scouts. It not only benefits local troops and the regional council through its proceeds, it also helps develop innovative programs that build girls of confidence, courage, and character.

Through the Cookie Program, girls are provided the opportunity to tap into their entrepreneurial abilities.

A 2019 report conducted by the Girl Scout Research Institute (GSRI) titled, “Today’s Girls, Tomorrow’s Entrepreneurs: Transforming Interest and Aptitude into Success”, looked at how girls today think and feel about entrepreneurship and business success.

The GSRI study, which included more than 1,500 girls ages 8-17 from across the country, found that Girl Scouts are more likely than other girls to have an entrepreneurial mindset (79% compared to 52%) and want to enter the world of entrepreneurship someday (91% compared to 71%).

“As our GSRI research has shown, the Girl Scout Cookie Program makes a difference for girls,” Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey CEO Ginny Hill said. “It provides girls with opportunities to participate in activities that support entrepreneurship. The program offers them the chance to solve real problems such as how to adapt to, and be resilient in, a global pandemic, and helps them embrace challenges and take risks.”

Girl Scouts provides mentors and role models through troop leaders and other positive influencers in girls’ lives that can help pave the way for them to achieve their future entrepreneurial aspirations. The Girl Scout Cookie Program truly is preparing tomorrow’s entrepreneurs, one cookie and sale at a time.”

For more information about the 2022 Girl Scout Cookie Program for the Girl Scouts of Central and Southern NJ, which runs from Jan. 13 through March 27, visit gscsnj.org.