Product sales are a great way to earn the funds necessary for girls to travel or carry out Take Action projects. If
income from the product sale isn’t enough, however, girls have more options available to them. Although you
cannot resell products, you can offer services, such as the following:
Collections/Drives:
Cell phones for refurbishment
Used ink cartridges turned in for money
Christmas tree recycling
Food/Meal Events:
Lunch box auction (prepared lunch or meal auctioned off)
Themed meals, like high tea, Indian meal, Mexican dinner (if girls are earning money for travel, tie the
meal to their destination)
Service(s):
Service-a-thon (people sponsor a girl doing service; funds go to support trip)
Babysitting for holiday (New Year’s Eve) or council events
Raking leaves, weeding, cutting grass, shoveling snow, walking pets
Cooking class or other specialty class
Refer to the Appendix: GSWPA Procedures/Forms for the following:
Additional Money-Earning Activities Procedure-page 182
o Food safety requirements are located in this procedure
Additional Money-Earning Request Form-page 185
Girl Scouting is meant to be a low cost activity for all girls who participate. Girl Scout troops are a valuable
resource and are meant to be a help and benefit to their communities. As such, please be mindful of your
requests to local businesses and organizations. Often times, we repeatedly ask the same businesses to donate
resulting in an over saturation of requests which often times can lead to declines of these requests. Be sure
when contacting local business you determine their capacity to make an in-kind donation first before sending a
request.
Please remember that because Girl Scouts and Girl Scout troops are not a 501C3 charity, they cannot request
cash donations/gifts or grants of any monetary value. Because of this circumstance, GSWPA cannot provide
acknowledgment of any direct donations to troops other than those required by the IRS for unsolicited cash
donations above $250.
If you have any questions about donations please contact our Fund Development department at 1-800-248-3355
ext. 1008.
Refer to the Appendix: GSWPA Procedures/Forms for the following:
Donations to Troops/Groups Exceeding $250 Procedure-page 186
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