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Operation: Sweet Appreciation
2010
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 does
Operation: Sweet Appreciation work?
Area
residents purchase Operation: Sweet Appreciation
cookies during the annual Girl Scout cookie sale
(December 20, 2009 - March 21, 2010). There is even
a column on the order card to indicate purchased
cookies for donation (it’s the second column just
before Lemon Chalet Cremes). 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.
How many
cookies have been donated?
Each year
Girl Scouts across the country send hundreds of
thousands of packages of cookies overseas.
In 2009,
northeast Ohio
Girl Scouts sent over 27,000 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.
FOR
DONATIONS YOU CAN SEE THE FOLLOWING VETERANS
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
1st
2nd
3rd
Jesse
Deel, Regie Childs, Mike Schaffer
Bill
Lococo,
Don Galloway
John
Balis
Mike
Siders
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