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Girl Scouts Kick Off 2025 Cookie Season

Find out how to stock up on your favorite cookies while supporting your local NYC Girl Scouts Troop!

By Macaroni KID Brooklyn NW January 16, 2025

It's time to stock up on your favorite treats and support your local cookie entrepreneurs!

Girl Scout Cookies are more than delicious treats, theyʼre entrepreneurial juggernauts and building blocks for Girl Scouts to create a more equitable future for themselves and the world. The proceeds from each purchase stay local and fund their ambitions, like camping trips and sleepovers at museums. But it doesnʼt stop there—cookies open a world of possibilities anywhere from the White House to the moon! Donʼt miss your chance to fulfill your craving for Girl Scout Cookies while you support every troopʼs craving for change!

For Girl Scouts of Greater New York, online sales opened on January 15th and local Troops will be begin selling cookies in-person February 19th until this year's cookie season ends on March 30.

2025 Girl Scout Cookie flavors



Find a local Girl Scout to support!

Buy cookies from a Girl Scout in your neighborhood! Zoom in to locate your zip code on their Cookie Connector Map and discover Girl Scouts selling cookies near you. Access their online sales pages through the links displayed on the map.

Buy cookies from Troop 6000!

Launched in 2017, Girl Scouts of Greater New York’s Troop 6000 is a first-of-its-kind program designed to serve families living in temporary housing in the New York City shelter system. Each week, Girl Scouts meet in shelters across the city to take part in activities that help them make new friends, earn badges, and learn to see themselves as leaders.

For Troop 6000 members, not only does Girl Scouting mean fun, it means consistency and community – a network of supportive peers and adults who, even if they’ve never met before, have similar experiences and are part of the same club. Buy cookies here. Learn more about the Troop here.




When you buy Girl Scout Cookies, you help young entrepreneurs develop five essential life skills.

Skill #1: Goal Setting
Girl Scouts learn how to set goals and create a plan to reach them,enabling amazing experiences for themselves and their troops all yearlong, while helping others too.

Skill #2: Decision Making
Girl Scouts learn to make decisions on their own and as a team, whether it's how to run and promote their cookie sale, interact with customers,or spend their earnings.

Skill #3: Money Management
Girl Scouts learn to expand their money smarts while running their own cookie business and create a budget to fund the experiences they want to share as a troop.

Skill #4: People Skills
Girl Scouts find their voice and build confidence through customer interactions, developing valuable skills that will help them succeed in school, in business, and in life.

Skill #5: Business Ethics
Girl Scouts learn to act ethically—lessons that will stay with them for a lifetime of leadership and success.      

Girl Scouts put their cookie earnings to good use.

All of the net revenue raised through the Girl Scout Cookie Program—100 percent of it—stays with the local council and troops. Troops may use the money earned to fund a project that will improve their community or donate the money to a worthy cause.






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About the Girl Scout Cookie Program

Did you know that the Girl Scout Cookie Program is the largest youth-led entrepreneurial program in the world? 

When you purchase Girl Scout cookies, you're creating an opportunity for Girl Scouts to develop a host of leadership and life skills. From learning how to interact with customers to creating budgets and taking orders, the Girl Scout Cookie Program teaches Girl Scouts invaluable skills that they’ll need to succeed throughout their lives.

Plus, Girl Scout Cookie proceeds stay in the community to support local councils and troops. Pretty sweet, right?

Happy Cookie Season!