Gift of Caring

Download this form and mail it along with your check to improve lives for US soldiers.

What is the Gift of Caring?

The Gift of Caring is an opportunity for customers to purchase Girl Scout cookies from girls and troops to donate to community causes such as homeless shelters, churches, retirement homes, etc. Girls can earn patches or incorporate the Gift of Caring into a Community Service Project for their troop.

 

How does it work?  

• Groups make the commitment to participate in the Gift of Caring Program.
• Groups decide which charitable organization(s) they will visit and present donated cookies.
• Each girl completes her Gift of Caring card, identifying her group’s chosen charitable organization, and attaches it to her order card.
• Groups role-play, asking customers for their cookie order and explaining the Gift of Caring program.
• Girls take orders and request Gift of Caring donations.
• Groups decide varieties of Gift of Caring cookies to order. 
• Groups visit chosen charitable organizations and deliver the Gift of Caring Girl Scout Cookies.

 

Download the form here to make donations until December 30th!

Success Story from Cyndi C:
Junior GS troop 510, led by troop leader Dr. Alice Tanner and Cookie Mom Jennifer Merrill have made an extraordinary effort to support troops assigned overseas.  For the past 5 years the Girl Scout troop has chosen to include the troops in their Gift of Caring donations and have shipped many cases of cookies to Iraq, Afghanistan and the Persian gulf.  Their cookies have gone to Marines, Sailors, soldiers and Airmen serving in hostile areas.  For their efforts, they were recognized and mentioned on Montel Williams'  holiday show in 2006 (filmed on location in the Persian Gulf) and more recently (December 9, 2007) they were awarded a flag that had been flown in November 2007 over a base in Iraq.  Additionally, each troop member received military coins in recognition of their effort selling cookies for gift of caring and for remembering the troops.

Success Story from Troop 5019:
Troop Raises Money to Donate 47 Boxes to USO
<Community Times, December 12, 2007>

Not only did Troop 5019 sell more than 3,100 boxes of Girl Scout cookies (when their goal was 2,000 boxes), but they also raised enough money for their Gift of Caring project to donate 47 boxes of cookies to the USO. The girls then passed out the boxes of cookies to US soldiers as they were leaving the airport to travel overseas.The girls asked their teachers, coaches and people at their places of worship as well as immediate family, close friends and neighbors. Once the pre-order cookies arrived, the girls used hand-made door hangers notifying neighbors that the cookies were in. The troop also conducted three successful booth sales in front of Reisterstown and Owings Mills businesses. The girls wore big smiles and displayed hand-made signs while waving to the passing traffic. They sung holiday songs and wore cookie costumes to grab even more attention.

Not only did the girls work hard to sell cookies, they also learned some valuable lessons. They worked on overcoming their shyness to talk to new people. They learned money management skills, such as calculating money owed and making change, and they acquired marketing tools to sell cookies.

 

What organizations welcome Gift of Caring Programs?

Anne Arundel County Locations
Baltimore City Locations
Baltimore County Locations
Carroll County Locations
Harford County Locations
Howard County Locations
State and Federal Locations

 

For Troops:

Gift of Caring Activity Gift of Caring Order Card Attachment

Gift of Caring Receipt Gift of Caring Tent

Help Support Our Soldiers:

• Download this form to make donations to this worthy cause.
• Girl Scouts of Central Maryland’s 2007-2008 Gift
  of Caring Recipient is The USO @ BWI Airport
• Girl Scout troops that are interested in participating should download this form.

 

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