--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > > > eh? And, hey, once it's pointed out to MMY that there's no > > > > cost per square foot to do door-to-door, I think it will > > > > start to have an appeal! > > > > > > > > Anyone want to take any bets that this will happen? > > > > > > The real secret of the girl scout cookie drive > > > success is that it's a contest -- the girls are > > > earning college money for selling the most cookies, > > > that sorta thang. > > > > Actually not. They get patches and pins, > > no monetary awards. > > Mea culpa if I mistook what has definitely been a local > policy, possibly sponsored by local Girl Scout supporters, > for the national one. But there have actually been articles > in newspapers where I've lived over the years about the > Girl Scout who won the contest and got a scholarship, so > the policy does exist at least in some places.
Yeah, there could be local contests funded by local supporters, but the only Girl Scout-specific policy involved would be that of allowing them to take place. The whole idea of the Girl Scouts (and Boy Scouts) is mastering skills for your own satisfaction and future benefit in life; that's why the only official awards are the patches and pins. They make a big deal about what can be learned from participating in the cookie program--teamwork, how to handle money, keep records, do market research, construct a sales pitch, and so on. There's a whole curriculum involved. And the local Scout troops design their own selling programs, deciding how much to charge for the cookies, which ones to order from which supplier, how much of the proceeds will be turned back to the national organization and how much will be kept to fund local Girl Scout projects. Wouldn't be a bad model at all for the TMO, come to think of it. (They do need to get rid of the trans-fats in the cookies, though.) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
