SERVICE UNIT COOKIE PROGRAM CHAIR – SUCPC

Marisa Gallo
818-454-4241

cookies.cvgsu@gmail.com

FORMS

Troop Forms – Agreements

• ACH Debit Authorization eForm
• Troop Cookie Chair Position Agreement eForm

 

Troop Forms – General

• Cookies for the Community Receipts
• Starting Inventory Worksheet
• Help Guide – Starting Inventory Worksheet (Returning Troops)
• Help Guide – Starting Inventory Worksheet (New Troops)
• Parent Reward Option Selection
• Product Quality Report
• Troop Goal Worksheet

 

Troop Forms – Boothing and Cupboards

• Boothing Inventory Recommendations (coming soon)
• Consignment Info and Agreement
• Cookie Boothing Form PDF | XLSX
• Corporate Boothing Application (coming soon)
• Troop Special Booth Permission

 

Troop Forms – Financial

• Debit Adjustment Request
• Discrepancy Report

 

Troop Forms – Checklists

• New Troop Entire Season Checklist
• New Troop Checklist #1 – Getting Started
• New Troop Checklist #2 – Now What?
• New Troop Checklist #3 – Cookies Come This Month! (January) (coming soon)
• New Troop Checklist #4 – Picking Up Your SIO (January) (coming soon)
• New Troop Checklist #5 – Go Day (January) (coming soon)
• New Troop Checklist #6 – Boothing (February) (coming soon)

COOKIE PROGRAM 101

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VIRTUAL SALES

• Virtual Cookie Booth Guide
• Daisy Digital Cookie Badge Tip Sheet
• Brownie Digital Cookie Badge Tip Sheet
• Junior Digital Cookie Badge Tip Sheet
• Cadette Digital Cookie Badge Tip Sheet
• Senior Digital Cookie Badge Tip Sheet
• Ambassador Digital Cookie Badge Tip Sheet

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TOP RESOURCES FOR GIRLS

• Cookie Family Guide | Guía de la Familia de Cookies (próximamente)
• Detecting and Avoiding Counterfeit Bills
• Digital Cookie Flier
• Digital Cookie – Girl Experience
• Digital Cookie M2 Login – Girls/Parents
• Digital Marketing Tips for Entrepreneurs
• Girl & Family Cookie Program Training PowerPoint | Webinar
• Order Card
• Program Rewards
• Supplemental Online Sales and Marketing Safety Tips
• Tip Sheet – Booth Sale Etiquette (coming soon)
• Tip Sheet – Girl Rewards (coming soon)

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TOP RESOURCES FOR PARENTS

• Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pins:
  – Daisy GS Pin Requirements
  – Brownie GS Pin Requirements
  – Junior GS Pin Requirements
  – Cadette GS Pin Requirements
  – Senior GS Pin Requirements
  – Ambassador GS Pin Requirements
• Cookie Family Guide | Guía de la Familia de Cookies (próximamente)
• Digital Cookie M2 Login – Girls/Parents
• Girl & Family Cookie Program Training PowerPoint | Webinar
• Parent Cookie Conduct Agreement
• Product Programs Parent Permission/Responsibility Agreement | Programas de Productos Acuerdo de Permiso/Responsabilidad de los Padres

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ONLINE PAYMENTS

Easily Collect Online Payments for Your Troop or Service Unit!

Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles wants to make your life just a little bit easier! We’ve partnered with Cheddar Up—the leading group payments platform—to give your troop or service unit an easy tool to collect payments (and forms and information) for troop and service unit expenses online with ease at no cost to the collector. Learn more and get started.

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COOKIE MARKETING KIT and MORE

• Cookie Booth Checklist
• Cookie Booth Guidelines
• Cookie Door Hangers
• Cookie FAQ
• Cookie Goal Poster
• Cookie Line Up
• Cookie Package Price Display Signs
• Cookie Shop Flier
• Detecting and Avoiding Counterfeit Bills
• Join Girl Scouts Business Cards
• Tips for Selling Cookies

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TRAINING FOR VOLUNTEERS

Program Guides

• Cookie Family Guide (English) | Guía de la Familia de Cookies (próximamente)
• Cookies 101
• Juliette Guide
• Quick Start Guide
• Service Unit eBudde Manual
• Troop Cookie Chair Guide
• Troop eBudde Manual

High Five Series

• Daisies Deliver! – Workshop 1
• Daisies Deliver! – Workshop 2
• Brownies Take Charge! – Workshop 1
• Brownies Take Charge! – Workshop 2
• Juniors Cookie CEO – Workshop 1
• Juniors Cookie CEO – Workshop 2
• Cadettes Smart Cookies! – Workshop 1
• Cadettes Smart Cookies! – Workshop 2

Training Webinars and Presentations

• Allocating Packages and Payments to Girls Webinar
• Cookie Chat – Starting Inventory Order, SIO Rewards, Booth Scheduler (12/21/20) Recording
• Cookie Chat – SIO Delivery and Cookie Distribution (coming soon)
• Cookie Chat – Managing Money and Inventory (coming soon)
• Cookie Chat – Cookie Cupboard Orders (coming soon)
• Cookie Chat – Boothing (coming soon)
• Cookie Chat – Consignments (coming soon)
• Cookie Chat – Allocating to Girls and Submitting Rewards (coming soon)
• eBudde Overview Webinar
• Filling out Booth Scheduler Spreadsheet Webinar *for SUCPC use only
• Placing Your Starting Inventory Webinar
• Placing a Cupboard Order Webinar
• Placing Rewards Order in eBudde Webinar
• Scheduling Booths in eBudde Webinar
• SUCPC eBudde Training (12/8/2020) *see your PPM for passcode
• Troop eBudde Training (12/10/2020) *see your SUCPC for passcode
• Troop eBudde Training (12/12/2020) *see your SUCPC for passcode
• Troop Cookie Chair Training Powerpoint | PDF | Webinar

IMPORTANT DATES

Jan 20 – Feb 24: Family Guide Scavenger Hunt Contest. From Jan 20 to Feb 17, watch GSGLA’s Instagram page each Wednesday for a weekly question for girls to seek out an answer from within the Cookie Family Guide.

Jan 25: “Early Cupboard Pickup” ordering process begins

February 2021

Feb 1: Troop Link goes live in Cookie Finder (shipped, donated only)

Feb 3: Deadline to submit a “early cupboard pickup” (late SIO, add-on to SIO), 11:59pm

Feb 15: Troop GrubHub sign-up due in eBudde, by 7:59pm

Feb 17: Deadline for SU Delivery Chairs to create Starting Inventory Order Pick-up schedule in eBudde, including date, time, & location

Feb 17: Deadline for the Video Contest

Feb 17: Deadline for the C4C Video Contest

Feb 18 – Feb 21: Starting Inventory Order Delivery to service units

Feb 19 – Feb 21: National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend

Feb 20: Golden Ticket 100-Package Giveaway

Feb 21: GO DAY! Cookie Program Begins

Feb 24: Cupboards begin to open. Refer to the cupboard schedule in eBudde for locations and dates/hours of operation

March 2021

Mar 2 – Mar 4: Starting Inventory returns (max 15 cs) for troops who placed an initial SIO on 1/2/2021 and did not place an ECO

Feb 26: GrubHub opportunities begin

Mar 7: Deck out your Delivery contest submission due date

Mar 8 – Mar 28: Even exchanges at the cupboards. Full cases only

Mar 15 – Apr 11: Individual package pick-ups at cupboards

April 2021

Apr 5 – Apr 10: Consignment orders accepted at designated cupboards

Apr 11: Last day of Cupboards

Apr 11: Cookie Program ends

Apr 13: Last day to return residual Consignment Cupboard orders — at designated cupboards only

Apr 16: Last day for TCCs to enter all Cookies for the Community packages, troop transfers and complete all girl allocations in eBudde. Must be completed by 11:30pm

Apr 17 – Apr 19: SUCPCs to ensure all troops have completed allocations, troop-to-troop transfers and GOC packages. SUBMIT SU Rewards by Apr 19— 11:30 pm

Apr 22: Last day to notify PPM of Final ACH debit adjustments by 12pm

Apr 29: Final ACH debit from Troop Accounts. Deadline for troops to turn in Discrepancy Reports to PPMs

Apr 29 – May 7: ACH credit (exact date tbd)

REWARDS

BOOTHING

• Boothing Inventory Recommendations (coming soon)
• Cookie Booth Checklist (coming soon)
• Cookie Booth Guidelines (coming soon)
• Cookie Booth Site Permission Form *for SUCPC use only
• Cookie Booth Site Permission Letter *for SUCPC use only
• Cookie Boothing Form PDF | XLSX
• Corporate Boothing Application (coming soon)
• Ralph’s/Food 4 Less Boothing Permission Letter (coming soon)
• Troop Special Booth Permission

Booth Sale Recorder App Program
Participate in the Booth Sale Recorder App Program! This free smart phone app works with eBudde to record the number of cookies sold at booths and keeps track of who sold them!

Android App Online | iPhone App

CUPBOARDS

We Need Cookie Cupboard Volunteers!

Have fun, get exercise, and make friends while helping pull orders for troops. Volunteers include parents, husbands, friends, aunts, uncles, and anyone over the age of 18* who would like to support Girl Scouts. The more volunteers, the shorter wait in line for leaders and a more successful experience for everyone. Anyone who volunteers for four hours will get a special cookie cupboard patch to add to their collection!

From Jan 27 – Mar 7, 2021, we have opportunities in Arcadia, Covina, Culver City, Downey, Glendale, Long Beach, Redondo Beach, Upland, Santa Clarita, and Woodland Hills. (Volunteers must be able to lift at least 10 lbs.)

Sign Up for a Cookie Cupboard Shift (coming soon)

*Seniors/Ambassadors may volunteer if accompanied by an adult.

DIGITAL COOKIE

With the Digital Cookie™ platform, the Girl Scout Cookie Program you know and love is better than ever. Fun, easy-to-use tools help you superpower your sale and go beyond the booth with online and mobile channels that make it easy for cookie fans near and far to support your sale and, ultimately, your success. You get more ways to participate, more ways to sell, more ways to buy, and more ways to learn—nice! And guess what? Girls who used the platform in addition to traditional sales, sold more cookies and reached their goals faster—so amazing.

Plus, on your very own personalized cookie site, you can play interactive games, watch videos, enjoy printable activities, take fun quizzes, and do even more—all while taking your cookie sale to the next level.

Excited to jump in? Get movin’ with the Digital Cookie platform in four easy steps.

It’s everything you already love about the Girl Scout Cookie Program, supercharged. The Digital Cookie platform allows you to customize the way you learn and earn, using technology in new and engaging ways, all while earning cool cookie business badges along the way.

Now you can take your Girl Scout Cookie business on the go!

CONTESTS and FUN

Deck Out Your Delivery (Feb. 7)

Decorate your cookie mobile (AKA your wagon hauling all those cookies during cookie deliveries), and package cookies with thank you notes (include your Digital Cookie link!) to leave on your customer’s doorsteps.

Submit a photo of your creation to cookies@girlscoutsla.org by Sunday, Feb. 7. We’ll place finalists in one of the categories below and then let our Facebook followers vote on the winners. Winners will earn a cookie-entrepreneur prize pack! Make sure to follow Facebook.com/GSGLA to find out more! Include the Girl Scout’s name, troop number, and category she’s submitting to. (Categories: Most Artistic, Best Use of Cookies, Most Original, Best Use of “We’ve Got This” Theme.)

Video Contest (Feb. 17)

Make a video for your Digital Cookie storefront. Entrants must create a personalized avatar, record a voice message, and record a video. The four winners will receive ring lights to make more awesome videos. Once you’ve posted your video to Digital Cookie, send your Digital Cookie link to cookies@girlscoutsla.org by Feb. 17 with the subject line Video Contest. Include your Girl Scout’s name and troop number.

Cookies For The Community Video Contest (Feb. 17)

Go a step further: include an ask for Cookies for the Community (C4C) in your storefront video. The winner will receive an invitation to the C4C event! Submit your video on your Digital Cookie link to cookies@girlscoutsla.org by Feb. 17 with the subject line C4C Video Contest. Include your Girl Scout’s name and troop number.

Golden Ticket 100-Package Giveaway (Feb. 20)

Saturday, Feb. 20 tell customers that if they buy one more package of Thin Mints, they might win 100 packages of Girl Scout Cookies! In celebration of National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend, all customers who buy Thin Mints will be entered in the Golden Ticket Contest, where winners will be chosen at random. Customers will have a chance to win a variety pack of Girl Scout Cookies and one lucky winner will get the grand prize: 100 packages of Girl Scout Cookies! Schedule to distance booth or virtual booth on Saturday, Feb. 20—your troop might be selected from the drawing and be a #GSGoldenTicket booth. #GSGoldenTicket clues will be posted on our Twitter and Instagram pages (@GirlScoutsLA) to drive customers to you.

As always, the health and safety of our girls and adults is our top priority. GSGLA will closely monitor changes in CDC and local and state government guidelines, and adapt contest formatting and rules in adherence to evolving guidelines and best practices as needed.