New in 2013!

Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania is excited to divulge our fresh ideas for the 2013 Cookie Program.

• Price Increase
• We are raising the price of the cookies for the 2013 cookie program to $4.00/package.

• Contests and Girl Opportunities
• Look for more information to be posted about new contests and programs we are running this year: We will be continuing the  Bling Your Booth Contest and the 5=52 contest. 
• We will also be adding a new opportunity for girls to show their movie making skills with a training video made for girls, by girls! More information will be released as the Program start date approaches. 
• ACH
• This year we are moving forward with the ACH (Automated Clearing House) initiative. ACH has be launched as a council-wide project with the 2012 Nuts About Reading Program and will continue through the 2013 Cookie Program. If you have a troop that needs to fill out an ACH form, you can locate the form here. 
• District Booths: 
• District Booths will not be offered for the 2013 Cookie Program. We will still be utilizing Council Booths and Service Unit Booths. 

• New Packages
• The packages have been updated for the 2013 Cookie program! 

• New Cookie! 
• We have a new cookie in the line up for this year, Mango Cremes!

Cookie Booths

The timeframe for troops to enter their requests for a Council-sponsored Cookie Booth is from November 29 to December 6, 2012. The actual lottery will run on December 7, 2013. Please view the  Cookie Booth Lottery Power Point for step by step instructions and important tips.

Also check out our Council-Sponsored Cookie Booth Lottery video to learn how to enter. Remember, the lottery is open for all troops wishing to participate!

2013 Cookies

2013 Cookie Program!

2013 Cookie Program: What Can a Girl Do?

Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania partners with ABC Bakers for the 2013 Cookie Program. This year’s program will run from January 17 through March 3.

Each year a motivational mascot and theme are selected to unify the program’s focus and efforts.

Theme and Mascot

This year’s Cookie Program theme is What Can a Girl Do? This theme encourages girls to explore the value and benefits from participating in the Cookie Program. 

Meet this year’s mascot animal is a dolphin. Female dolphins are called cows and males are called bulls. Young dolphins are called calves. Dolphins live in schools or pods of up to 12 dolphins. They have excellent hearing and use echolocation to find the exact location of objects. Dolphins are believed to be very intelligent.  

Nuts and Candy Deliveries

Nut and Candy Deliveries

Beginning today,  Service Units will be receiving the Nut/Candy shipments. 

• To help troop pickups run smoothly, we recommend that you use each troop’s T-2 report to sort nuts/candy and incentives. 
• It is important to let your troops know when they can pick up their nut/candy items. Please print off a copy of each troop’s T-2 report to use as a receipt when troops pick up their nuts and candy and make sure they sign the T2 as proof of their pick up. Keep these T-2s with your Service Unit Nuts About Reading paperwork for one year.
• Recognitions are also being delivered this week. Some Service Units have recieved their recognitions last week. 

System Upgrades

• GSEP will be upgrading our email system over the next few weeks. We will not have email services on these specific dates:
• November 17, 2012 - November 18, 2012: Email system will be down for the entire weekend.
• November 22, 2012-November 25, 2012: Email system will be down for the entire holiday weekend. 

Cookie Alert!!

Cookie Training Alert!

 Monday and Tuesday’s SUCM training's have been cancelled in advance of the impending weather. Anyone who registered for this training will receive an email notification and a phone call/voice-mail as a courtesy.  If any member of you SU Team planned to attend this training but did not register, kindly forward this communication to them.

We deeply regret having to postpone our SUCM Training's however, we feel that due to the impending weather the postponement would be best. The product program team will announce the rescheduled training's as soon as possible. Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

Kindly,

The Product Program Team
Barb Bankert
Amanda Harrity
Jessica Menefee
Daniel Rau

Nuts About Reading Program Close

Thanks to everyone who participated and supported our 2012 Nuts About Reading Program!

If you are the Troop Nuts About Reading Manager, please be sure that you have turned in the following items to your Service Unit Nuts About Reading Manager:

•  Pay Upfront Magazine subscription forms

• Completed Address Booklets (one per girl)

• A printout of the T2 Report

• A printout of the Detailed Order Report from the QSP/Nut Online Program

Service Unit Nuts About Reading Managers should have all of their paperwork turned in to council by 10/29/12.

Facebook NAR

Girls are Reaching Their Goals Faster by Inviting Facebook Friends!

Has your Girl Scout sent out emails to friends and family yet or asked her parent(s) to invite Facebook friends?  If not, she is missing out on exciting activities that are part of the QSP/Nut Online Program.

When sending emails and/or posting to a parent’s wall in Facebook, friends and family will have the option to renew or purchase their favorite magazines and/or to make nut promises while supporting their Girl Scout.

All orders resulting from emails sent and Facebook friends track back to the Detailed Order Report.  At the end of the Nuts About Reading Program, the parent can simply login and print the “Detailed Order Report.” This report needs to be given to the Troop Nuts About Reading Manager to receive the “Online” patch and credit towards proceeds and recognitions for all subscriptions and nut promises made online by the conclusion of the program.

Click on the QSP/Nut Online Link to get started!