The Girl Scout Cookie Program has always played an important role in teaching girls about entrepreneurship and life skills including:
- Goal Setting
- Decision Making
- Money Management
- People Skills
- Business Ethics
This year’s program, however, required our girls to think outside the cookie box to come up with creative and safe ways to engage with their customers and manage and reach their goals. This included such initiatives as drive through cookie booths and porch pick-up and drop-off deliveries. One of the unique ways we were able to support our girls in their efforts was to create a Cookie Finder Google Map on the GSNNJ website, which helped potential customers easily find links to the online shops of local Girl Scouts.
Cookies from Home
In 2020, Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey donated over 93,000 packages of cookies through the Cookies from Home program to front-line healthcare and other essential workers who tirelessly fought to help New Jersey residents during the pandemic. Donations were made to food pantries and others in need, as well. Girl Scout troops thanked frontline and essential workers by organizing donations of gloves, masks, and more to send along with the cookies and messages of hope and gratitude.
Girl Scout Cookie Day in Passaic
Thanks to the generosity of donors, GSNNJ organized Passaic Girl Scout Cookie Day for Dignity House, which serves as a resource center for the city's residents. 5,000 boxes of cookies were delivered by Girl Scouts to the center providing a sweet escape from the stressors of the pandemic. Passaic City Mayor Hector C. Lora and the Passaic Youth Council helped coordinate the event.
