Operation: Sweet Appreciation
Q. What is Operation: Sweet Appreciation?
A. Operation: Sweet Appreciation sends “a taste of home” to U.S. troops deployed overseas. Local Girl Scouts team up with their cookie customers to send boxes of Girl Scout cookies to service men and women far from home.
Q. How many cookies have been donated?
A. Each year Girl Scouts across the country send hundreds of thousands of packages of cookies overseas. In 2007, northeast Ohio Girl Scouts sent over 20,000 packages of cookies.
Q. Who receives the cookies donated through Operation: Sweet Appreciation?
A. U.S. servicemen and servicewomen deployed overseas in areas like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Q. How does Operation: Sweet Appreciation work?
A. Area residents purchase Operation: Sweet Appreciation cookies during the annual Girl Scout cookie sale (January 4 - March 17, 2008). There is even a column on the order card to indicate purchased cookies for donation (it’s the first column just before Caramel deLites). Girl Scouts deliver the cookies purchased for Operation: Sweet Appreciation to one of the designated Girl Scout or Red Cross drop off points and the staff at the council arranges for shipping with donations from organizations and businesses in the area.
Q. Has the military approved this operation?
A. GSNEO is working with the International USO to reach deployed servicemen and servicewomen and to follow the guidelines issued by the United States Department of Defense.
Q. Does the cookie revenue still benefit the girls?
A. Operation: Sweet Appreciation supports our military troops and local Girl Scout troops! All of the revenue—every penny after paying the baker—earned from cookie activities supports local Girl Scouts, including a portion that goes directly to the troop/group selling cookies. Cookie revenue supplies essential services to troops, groups, and individual girls, such as providing program resources, operating camp, training adult volunteers, conducting special events, and much more.
For more details contact:
Marianne Love, Product Sales Manager
1-800-852-4474
