Girl Scouts of Western New York kicks off 2023 cookie season

Submitted by Girl Scouts of Western New York

Girl Scouts in Western New York are now selling the exclusively online, berry-blasted Raspberry Rally cookie alongside the iconic cookie lineup, powering amazing experiences in outdoors, STEM, and beyond.

On Saturday, Girl Scouts of Western New York (GSWNY) kicks off the 2023 Girl Scout Cookie program for Girl Scouts and their troops to begin rallying the community to support the world’s largest entrepreneurial program for girls. New to the 2023 cookie program, the highly anticipated online exclusive Raspberry Rally cookie joins the iconic lineup, alongside classic family favorites like Thin Mints, Adventurefuls, Caramel deLites, Peanut Butter Patties Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Lemonades, Toast-Yays and Trefoils (previously named Shortbread).

Nutritional information about the cookies including allergen information is available at the ABC Bakers website, www.abcbakers.com.

All cookie varieties will be $6 per package. One-hundred percent of all proceeds stays local within Girl Scouts of Western New York. Each package continues to support our mission to support girls and volunteers. GSWNY will continue to provide a 50% subsidy for online direct ship to your home for every nine packages of cookies. Cookies are able to be purchased and shipped nationwide in the U.S.

Consumers can support their local Girl Scout troops by purchasing their favorite varieties and trying the new, online exclusive Raspberry Rally, a thin crispy cookie infused with raspberry flavor and dipped in the same delicious chocolaty coating as the beloved Thin Mints cookies. This must-try new cookie will be the first in the Girl Scout Cookie lineup to be exclusively offered for online sale and direct shipment only, enhancing girls’ e-commerce sales and entrepreneurial skills.

If you know a Girl Scout, ask how they are selling cookies via their online store front for direct shipment or local delivery. Beginning Feb. 17, consumers can enter their ZIP code to purchase cookies online from a local troop for direct shipment or donation to local causes. Once cookies arrive in March, visit the Cookie Finder www.gswny.org/findcookies to view cookie booths within your communities.

How to Purchase Girl Scout Cookies This Year

√ If you know a registered Girl Scout, reach out to her to find out how you can purchase cookies.

√ You can also text COOKIES to 59618 to be among the first to receive information about Girl Scout Cookies and to find out about other exciting Girl Scout news. Visit https://bit.ly/3E7ViYa for terms and conditions. Visit https://bit.ly/3Fajz0V for the SMS privacy policy.

√ Beginning Feb. 17, enter your zip code into the Girl Scout Cookie Finder at www.gswny.org/findcookies to find a booth near you, to purchase cookies from a local Girl Scout troop for delivery, or to donate cookies to local organizations. If you do not know a Girl Scout, click the link https://www.gswny.org/en/cookies/find-cookies.html to be directed to a local Girl Scout.

The Girl Scout Cookie Program is the world’s largest entrepreneurial program for girls. Girl Scouts’ newly updated Financial Literacy badges offer entrepreneurial playbooks for every age level. From the Cookie Goal Setter badge earned as a Daisy to the Entrepreneur Accelerator for girls in high school, the Girl Scout Cookie Program teaches girls financial literacy, planning, budgeting, teamwork, innovative thinking, and confident decision making.

New this year, Raspberry Rally is exclusively offered through digital channels for direct shipment only, enhancing girls’ e-commerce sales and entrepreneurial skills. This latest approach will help to guide the evolution of the cookie program for the digital future.

The Girl Scout of Western New York Cookie season runs from Dec. 10, 2022, through April 2, 2023.

Girl Scouts in grades K–12 can start their journey to fun, friendship and new experiences by joining the world's largest entrepreneurial organization for girls at any point in the year. Girls can join and adults can become a volunteer at https://www.gswny.org/en/join.html.

About Girl Scouts of Western New York

Girl Scouts of Western New York serves girls and adult volunteers across the GSWNY jurisdiction, including Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans and Wyoming counties. The council’s administrative service centers are located in Buffalo, Jamestown, Lockport, Niagara Falls and Rochester.

Girl Scouts bring their dreams to life and work together to build a better world. Through programs from coast to coast, Girl Scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges – whether they want to climb to the top of a tree or the top of their class, lace up their boots for a hike or advocate for climate justice, or make their first best friends. Backed by trusted adult volunteers, mentors and millions of alums, Girl Scouts lead the way as they find their voices and make changes that affect the issues most important to them.

To volunteer, reconnect, donate or join, visit www.gswny.org or call 1-888-837-6410.