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Text Box: Product Sales and Money Earning Text Box: Product Sales GSJS provides several opportunities a year for Girl Scouts to earn money for troop activities and support the girl scout council. At GSJS, QSP/Nut sales and Cookies sales have become traditions. Text Box: QSP/Nut Sale At GSJS, this sale is held in the fall. QSP is a subsidiary of Reader’s Digest and provides discount subscriptions on magazines, books, music and more. Troops keep 10% of their sales and girls can earn prizes, such as patches, T-shirts, stuffed animals, CD’s, and subscriptions. QSP is held in conjunction with the Nut sale. The Nut Sale provides the girls and troops additional start up money. Incentives for the girls and troops/groups, and Service Units are based on volume sold. A minimum of 60 cents per tin is kept by the troop/group. Incentives and patch programs change each year. The Service Unit Product Sales Coordinator will present the new items each year at a Service Unit Leader meeting before the sale starts. You will be able to learn the new program and present it to the girls before they sell. Be sure to attend each leader meeting for updates. Text Box: Cookie Sale The cookie sale is a time-honored program activity that girls and the public look forward to each year. Troops earn funds for their activities, while individual girls can earn patches and prizes for their sales achievements. The sale usually takes place in January/February and runs about three weeks. Booth/direct sales in late March/April are a popular marketing technique. This is when a troop requests space in front of a store to sell boxes (of already delivered cookies) to the store’s customers. Booth/direct sales locations and requests for times and dates are handled by each service unit and coordinated with the council Product Sales representatives. The service unit Product Sales Manager then cross-checks these places, dates and times with the council office to ensure proper placement of booth sales. The Service Unit Produce Sales Coordinator presents new cookie sale incentives each year and demonstrates how to complete the required paperwork. Troop leaders should designate a parent from the troop to handle to both Nut/QSP and cookie sales for their troop so that the leader’s time can be spent planning troop activities with the girls. Text Box: Other Money Earning Activities Troops can participate in other money earning activities to fund troop activities. Girls may not sell products or raise money for any other corporation or organization. If a troop wishes to participate in a money earning activity a Money Earning Request Form must be completed and approved by the council. Ideas for money earning activities may include a bake sale or car wash. Money Earning Request Forms can be found at monthly Service Unit Leader meetings, on the council website, at www.girlscoutsjs.org.