She is at booth sales and delivering cookies.
If your council uses Trails-end the popcorn money is pretty easy to follow. But no-one could really tell me where all the money from the Girl Scout cookies went, until now.
$0.85 Bakery
$0.50 Troop
$0.08 Patches
$2.07 Local Council
For a total of $3.50
So let's scale this up to the $9.00 tub o' popcorn the Boy Scouts sell.
So for the $9.00 you'd get 39 cookies from the GSUSA or 8.5 oz of Carmel popcorn from the BSA.
| GSUSA | BSA |
| $2.25 or 25% to the Bakery | $2.25 or 25% to Trails-end |
| $0.18 or 2% to prize patches | $0.45 or 5% to Prizes |
| $5.31 or 59% to the Local Council | $3.15 or 35% to the Local Council |
| $1.26 or 14% to the Troop | $3.15 or 35% to the Unit |
I'm not so angry at the baker's anymore. I know the BSA has FOS, United Way, and other fundraising going on throughout the year. I wonder what other funds the GSUSA raises during the year. It seems the girl scouts put more of the council's financial burden on the girls. My daughters goals were to sell 150 boxes each for a total of $73 in the troop coffers. But nearly double the total sales of my pack for nearly the same commission per scout.
To me it would seem the Local GSUSA council could give a bit more back to the scouts.
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Our council only gives $0.40/box!
The biggest differnece I see is that Girl Scout cookies are about 1000% times easier to sell than popcorn. People look forward to buying the cookies an its always been hard to sell the popcorn. Partially I think due to the higher price point and partially the cookies are differntiated product.
It's interesting... I don't know if BSA gives the same profit all over the country, but Girl Scout councils are vastly different. Here in Oregon our breakdown is:
Cost of cookies $.87
Troop Proceeds $.67 average ($.65 a box unless a troop averages over 150 per girl... then it goes up to $.70. Troops can also opt out of recognitions to get up to $.95 a box.)
Recognitions $.25
Service Unit grant (which has to be spent 100% on girl programming) $.06
Opportunity Fund $.25
Council program for girls $1.90
Grand total of $4.00 per box.
Honestly, it's ridiculously easy to sell Girl Scout cookies and at least here all of the council funds go to maintaining GS properties and creating programming for girls.
I admit that it is tons easier to sell girl scout cookies. My girls both sold over 200 boxes this year. I'm sure the exact details may vary from council to council and bakery to bakery. The article was from New York. The Model is slightly different in San Antonio where I am.
The money given to the Service unit, opportunity fund, etc. is a red herring in my opinion. Yes, it is spent on the girls but the money is still in the check the troop writes to the council to pay for the cookies. It's great they earmark it for this or that, yet at some point it is all still in the council's hands not the troops.
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