“With the new technology offerings of Digital Cookie 2.0 and the advanced date coinciding with the Big Game, 2016 will be a great year for our troops and they’ll be well-positioned to reach their fundraising goals”, Girl Scouts of Northern California CEO Marina Park said. Workers, like David Esau, are organizing a warehouse of more than 1 million boxes of Girl Scout cookies, getting them ready for distribution to Scouts for sale.
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But when a neighbor made a bigoted comment to Stormi, who is transgender, she took her story – and her cookie sales – online. “I have probably sold well over 20,000 Girl Scouts cookies and fall products”, Hood said.
Sunday, members of the Girl Scouts of the Virginia Skyline Council worked hard to sell their cookies outside the Kroger on Barracks Road.
Controversy over a transgender Girl Scout selling cookies has led to national media discussion over the harms of bullying. “I have learned that even though people can be mean I shouldnt give up!” she added.
Stormi sold more than 3,000 boxes of cookies within in a week, with orders coming from as far as Canada and Australia.
“At my request my family will donate boxes to local foster kids like me!” she wrote. This year, they’re trying to make it three in a row.
The Scouts like to brag that the cookie sale is the largest financial literary program for girls in the U.S. She wanted people to choose the option “deliver in person”.
The Girl Scouts will also be selling door-to-door and online.
She said it makes her very proud as a mother because she sees a sense of trust that the other girls find in her daughter.
Kim declined to give her family’s last name to either Buzzfeed or the Washington Post when asked. Girl Scouts of the United States of America also serves American girls and their classmates attending American or global schools overseas in 90 countries.
Jay Strobel, spokesman for Girl Scouts of Southern Illinois, called Stormi’s effort “amazing”.
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“I want kids like me to know they are ideal just the way they are”, she says. “There are people all over the world that love you”.
