1. Girl Scouts Heart of New Jersey 2016 Cookie Program
Dana Shapiro
Nancy Giordano
Service Unit 72 Cookie Managers

2. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO

3. COOKIE TIMELINE Initial Order Taking Period January 16 - February 14
Troop Orders Due on eBudde February 18 at 11:59pm
Goal Getter Orders February 15 – April 17
Cookie Delivery to Hillsborough March 12 or March 19
Booth Sales April 1 - April 24
First ACH Pull (50%) March 30
Second ACH Pull (Balance) May 4

4. TRIVIA 1 - Question
How many boxes of Cookies did SU 72 sell last year?!

5. Yes the cookies come to us on a big 18 wheeler!
TRIVIA 1 - Answer
32,276 boxes
Yes the cookies come to us on a big 18 wheeler!

6. What’s New for 2016? Patches: Troop Incentives Other News
NEW Cookie Techie Patch – sell 12 Digital Order Card (DOC) boxes
NEW Gift of Caring Patch – sell 24 GOC boxes
NEW One Tough Cookie Patch – Troop goes ‘over and beyond’
NEW Bling your Booth Patch (and $250!)
NEW Walkabout Patch
Troop Incentives
Troops Earn More $ for more boxes sold
Contests and Events, giveaways, prizes, golden ticket
Other News
All of New Jersey is selling at the SAME TIME

7. Why do basketball players like cookies?

8. Because they can DUNK them

9. What (sort of) Stays the same for 2016?
Cookies are $4/box; Toffee Tastic Gluten free cookies are $5/box
Toffee Tastic Still in Pilot and Still picked up via Cookie Cupboard
Digital Order Card is back
Minimum of 4 boxes for purchase, Minimum of 1 box for Donations
No girl delivery
Initial orders will be in full cases; No Cookie Returns
Gift of Caring (GOC) donations will be sent directly to Operation Shoebox
Booth Sales will NOT be using the ebudde sign up feature

10. Incentives – Opting Out
Cadettes can now join Seniors and Ambassadors to opt out of incentives and receive higher proceed amounts! (Girls are still eligible for patches)
Troops earn from $ $0.75 per box of cookies sold depending on # of boxes sold per participating girl
With Incentive Opt Out, troops earn between $ $0.80 per box of cookies sold, depending on # boxes sold per participating girl
If you want to opt out of incentives:
Entire troop needs to agree; must be unanimous
Troops must notify council of opt out request by February 9th - via at

11. TRIVIA 2 - Question
When and How did Girl Scout Cookie Sales start?

12. TRIVIA 2 - Answer
The sale of cookies as a way to finance troop activities began as early as 1917, five years after Juliette Gordon Low started Girl Scouts in the United States, when the Mistletoe Troop in Muskogee, Oklahoma, baked cookies and sold them in its high school cafeteria as a service project

13. COOKIE PACKET Envelopes
Each envelope contains one
2016 Cookie Program Information Guide and all of the info/documents for each of the girls in your troop:
Cookie Program Family Guide – PERMISSION SLIP ATTACHED
Goal Getter Form
Order Form
Money Envelope
Receipt Booklet (one per troop)
The 2016 Cookie Program Information Guide has 99.99% of the answers you will need to conduct a successful troop cookie sale!
For the 00.01% of questions that may remain – please contact Dana and Nancy at

14. Cookie Manager Prep*!
Go into eBudde and ensure Cookie Manager contact information is entered
COMMUNICATIONS to Cookie Managers will come via eBudde!!! Don’t miss out on important information!
Go into eBudde and enter your Banking Information, including bank name, routing number and account number - no later than February 1st
Rules for selling:
Each girl must be a registered Girl Scout for 2016 or she cannot participate in the sale – please ask your Troop Leader to remind the family to register her
Each girl must have a signed permission form returned to the Troop Cookie Manager or Leader (attached to family guide in your troop packet)
*ebudde instructions on last few pages

15. What’s a monkey’s favorite snack?

16. Chocolate CHIMP cookies

17. Booth Sales Booth Sales continue as they have in the past
Booth Sales will be held during April
4 weekends:
April 1/2/3
April 8/9/10
April 15/16/17
April 22/23/24
Sign up will be done at the March Leaders’ Meeting and will not be scheduled via eBudde, as stated in the 2016 Cookie Program Information Guide

18. TRIVIA 3 - Question
How many booth sales did SU72 do in 2015?

19. 49 (out of 319 time slots) That means only 15% of time slots were used
TRIVIA 3 - Answer
49 (out of 319 time slots) That means only 15% of time slots were used

20. Guide to eBudde

21. Log In Information https://ebudde.littlebrownie.com/
Address – the one you used to register
Temporary Default Password is (case sensitive)
First Time users will have to change password to a permanent one
There is a MANUAL for your use!

22. Use the Help Center

23. Help – Ebudde Manual

24. Adding Troop Contact Information
Choose Settings

25. Choose Edit Settings

26. Scroll down to “Cookie Chair”
If you are adding a new Cookie Chair, you can add the information here. If you are changing Cookie Chair, you have to remove the person by selecting the ‘remove’ choice. Then enter back in to add
After your addition,
choose ‘update’’ on the
bottom of the screen

27. Updating Contacts Choose Contacts
Choose Edit and update the Troop Leader or Cookie Chair Information
Then choose Submit at the bottom of the page

28. What is a locksmith’s favorite key?

29. A Girl Scout CooKEY

30. Updating Bank Information
Choose Settings and Edit Settings to update the Bank Name, Account Number and Routing Number
Then choose “update” at the bottom of the page

31. Distribution Day Pick Ups*
*This screen will be filled in once
orders are submitted and pick up
times are determined