Your $10 donation will send 3 packages of Girl Scout Cookies to U.S. Military troops while also supporting local girls with other leadership and community service projects!  $10!    2 great benefits!   Just a text away!

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Every cookie has a mission to help girls do great things! Girl Scout cookies train girls to build robots and operate telescopes … Girl Scout cookies teach girls to set goals and manage money …  Girl Scout cookies can also cheer up soldiers far away from home …It’s all part of the Girl Scout mission: to make the world a better place! When you order delicious Girl Scout cookies for yourself, make a donation to Operation: Sweet Appreciation, and send a taste of home to our troops overseas.

Operation: Sweet Appreciation

What is Operation:
Sweet Appreciation?

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.

How many cookies have
been donated?

Each year Girl Scouts across the country send hundreds of thousands of packages of cookies overseas. In 2011, northeast Ohio Girl Scouts sent over 25,000 packages of cookies.

Who receives the cookies donated through Operation: Sweet Appreciation?

U.S. servicemen and servicewomen deployed overseas in areas like Iraq and Afghanistan.

How does Operation: 
Sweet Appreciation work?

Area residents purchase Operation: Sweet Appreciation cookies during the annual Girl Scout cookie sale (December 18, 2011 - March 4, 2012).  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.

Has the military approved this operation?

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.

Does the cookie revenue still benefit the girls?

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.

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UAW Local 1050 & Alcoa Foundation Helped Girl Scouts Send 1,142 Boxes of Cookies to US Troops. Girls Receive Thank You Letters From Soldiers.

At a ceremony Friday, March 19, 2010 Girl Scouts of North East Ohio (GSNEO) received a check for $4,000 in support of Operation: Sweet Appreciation, a Girl Scouts Gift of Caring service project which sends Girl Scout Cookies to U.S. troops overseas.  Representatives from the United Auto Workers Local 1050 and Alcoa Foundation presented the check to GSNEO Chief Executive Officer, Daisy L. Alford Smith, Ph. D., at Alcoa Cleveland Works. Read More>