1. Your very best way to earn money is Girl Scout Cookies! Sign up for a few extra booth sales. We are doing 14 booth sales this year. Each girl only works 5-6 booths and with 15 girls it works out well. In our area the average booth sale is 100 boxes per 2 hour booth.
2. Car washes: you may say "Not another car wash!". But the reason they are still around is that they are very effective if you have a good location. We did one 2 years ago and the profit was $350.00. Not bad for 4 hours of work. Enlist all of the parents in your troop to help.
3. Craft Sales: Cookie mix in a jar- we did this in May. Sales were slow, time of year was bad. Hot Chocolate Mix in a jar in December- sales were great. Good time of year for craft show. We took pre-orders which really increased sales.
4. Service Unit/Council Events: Try running a snack bar at a Service Unit Event or Council Event. Maybe sell soda's, bottles water, chips, various snacks and have a bake sale at the same time. We were able to do this several years ago, before "THE RULES" changed.
5. Tentative plans include a lock-in for Brownies. Will post results if this one does pan out.
6. Save aluminum cans for recycling. Not a lot of $$ but every little bit helps.
7. The Kroger Stores in TX & LA have a program called the "Share Card". A card is issued to the non-profit organization members and each time a purchase is scanned 1% of that purchase is paid back to the organization. Check with your local Kroger or other store in your area to see if they have a similar porgram.
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